>saves your shitty little backwater vassal state from japs trying to rape you>receive absolutely NO credit from it from the yangban>instead they treat you like shit Korea would be in 2100 if Admiral Yi-types allowed the japs to rape the upper class and take the rest for themselves.
>>18445914>receive absolutely NO creditSo, what's with the statue?
>>18445916It all happened posthumously once he was no longer a potential threat to other’s ambitions
>>18445916Was built because centuries later, Koreans realized he was a hero and the government he worked for were incompetent and corrupt
>>18446728they realized basically right away to be fairwas more a matter of getting a government in that wasn't connected to the old monarchy and wouldn't be too embarrassed to officially honor him