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Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who has a close relationship with Korea, has released a statement regarding President Trump's relation to Korea.

I don't want to deal with President Moon Jae-in, and South Koreans are terrible, President Trump said, but what is the context of this?

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an article written by Governor Hogan Maryland on the Washington Post, President Trump made a speech in February at a dinner with Republican governors.

There was a story about Korea, but President Trump said he doesn't really like dealing with President Moon Jae-in, saying that Koreans are terrible people.

He also wrote that the Koreans complained that they did not pay because they did not know why the US should protect Korea.

President Trump's comments came when the United States pulled out the unpaid leave card for USFK Korean workers as a card that pressured our government on the occasion of the United States' unreasonable demand and negotiating defense contributions.

President Trump's propensity to treat alliances only as monetary relations was revealed without filtration in front of the governors.

President Trump also boasted that he had a good relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Abe, and North Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong-un, but Governor Hogan said there was nothing to say about Corona 19 that began to spread to the United States at the time.

The White House countered that Governor Hogan actually expressed his appreciation for President Trump's support in responding to Corona 19, and the Blue House refrained from commenting that it was an individual claim.

(Video coverage: Video editing: Oh Jeong-sik, Jang Hyun-gi)