Words of Chiang Kai-shek

At the middle school for ethnic Chinese students in Yeonhui-dong, Seoul, Lee Chung-heon, head of the Chinese Resident’s Association Korea, points to a tablet on the wall of a shrine to a Chinese leader of the Qing Dynasty. The words on the tablet were written for the shrine by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek in the 19th year of the Republic of China, or 1930, meaning, “Though the missions were accomplished, love remains.” Words from former Taiwan President Yuan Shikai and Lee Teng-hui also inscribed in tablets are hung there.

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