South Koreans don’t care much about Ukraine war?

Low response: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressing members of the South Korea Parliament via video link at the National assembly recently. – AP

ARE South Koreans generally impassive on the war in Ukraine? No way.

But when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his video address appealing for South Korean help on April 11, only a small audience turned up at the auditorium of the National Assembly library to reveal an apparent lack of interest among the representatives of this free democratic country in the bloody war started by Russia’s unprovoked invasion.