The Politics of Envy in American Academia
Korean novelist Hong Sang-hwa on the "the leftist tendencies of American humanities professors," quoted in [Opinion] The Revival of Kim Il Sung:

Those who remain in college after graduation while most others enter society are the scholars. They want their excellence to be recognized in other places as well as among themselves, but when they discover that reality is not so, they become jealous over those who are better than they are. That jealousy is one reason they become leftists.

The article also quotes Cho Ki-sook, presidential secretary for public affairs, as saying, "Most American college professors are on the progressive side, but on the contrary, Korea has too many conservative college professors." I've heard many students express this same sentiment.