This drives me crazy. Again, why must Koreans apologize for things out of their control?
This cultural phenomenon is beginning to irritate me. It reveals the troubled societal pressures on individuals in Korea to be 100% responsible for their own. I also wonder how much of it has to do with Korea's Confucionism of old.
Two of 19 South Koreans released by Taleban kidnappers in Afghanistan have apologized to the South Korean people and government for the ordeal. At a news conference in Kabul Friday, one of the hostages, Yu Kyeong-sik, described losing sleep over the agony they caused to the country. Yu described their July 19 abduction, saying the group of 23 church volunteers was on a chartered bus in southern Afghanistan when their driver picked up two locals. He said about 20 minutes later, the men began shooting and stopped the bus. | 
