Chung Ho Kim: Gentlemen, it is truly not a matter for my government to deal with.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: This kid has a label that says "Made in Korea." Who do we talk to, Yugoslavia?
Chung Ho Kim: I am sorry.
Col. Sherman Potter: What about the terrible stories we hear? Mutilating babies, killing them?
Chung Ho Kim: Sadly, Colonel, in some cases they are true.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: My God, what kind of a place is this?
Col. Sherman Potter: Easy, Pierce. We're just visitors in this country.
Chung Ho Kim: It's all right, Colonel. The captain asks a valid question.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: Then how about a valid answer?
Chung Ho Kim: This is an ancient land, Captain. Its culture goes back many, many centuries. It has survived many wars. Our people are of one race. It is their feeling that the intrusion of a mixed-race child into such an ordered society represents disorder. Such a child is hated here.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: Yeah, so I've heard.
Chung Ho Kim: I do not deny that they are treated with terrible cruelty. Korean law barely acknowledges their existence, and protects them not at all.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: Swell.
Chung Ho Kim: This may seem harsh and inflexible, but such attitudes are not unique to my country.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: Oh, who is it now, Bolivia?
Chung Ho Kim: No, Captain, your United States. Americans are not the only ones fathering such children, but they are the only ones who ignore them. France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, acknowledge a responsibility for these unfortunate babies of their military. They will support and help them, offer them citizenship, but the United States - where all men are created equal - refuses to do this. You reject the children of your own people.