> “victory narrative” has ignored and suppressed the truth that Korea’s modern history and contemporary society is filled with brutal violence and unhealed wounds. To acknowledge such violence and wounds would be to mar the “K-model,” which seeks the world’s praise and recognition, and sully the image of a “1st Place Korea.”

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