The party was boring, parties like this were commonplace in Los Angeles, Adrian received invites almost daily, and even the tastiest food could become tiresome after too much, let alone a mishmash of everything. Despite these guests from South Korea being either rich or noble, impeccably dressed, despite Lee Kun-hee, Chung Mong-kyu, and Gu Bonmoo having studied in the United States, and despite South Korea's aggressive Westernization, an awkward feeling persisted.
To say it was a prejudice from a previous life would be overstating it, but Japanese guests rarely gave Adrian this feeling. Perhaps, this was related to the arrogance that came with the sudden wealth of Koreans. After all, Japan could at least be considered a second-rate power in the first half of the 20th century, and it left an indelible yet despicable mark through World War II. What did South Korea have?
