Paul+Choi+8+Relection

__**Western Intrusion Number 8 Reflection**__ Having the reflection and the information in mind, I think Korea might have had the potential to develop faster if it had opened up to the west. In case of Japan, who opened up to the west way faster than Korea, was able to extract benefits from the west and used them to develop their own technology. If Korea had also done so, Korea might have been on the same level as Japan back then. Also, I thought the reason behind persecuting the western influence was way too minute compared to the potential benefits Korea could have achieved through the west. Keeping tradition could have been moved to the next priority (not meaning that it should be abandoned), and absorb the western culture into benefit. Therefore, I thought Korea could have been better off in the past only if it had opened up to the west just like how Japan did.