When Inoue was invited by the Korean government along with his fellow pupils, Takuzo USHIBA and Masanobu TAKAHASHI, Fukuzawa, who was concerned about the Korean people's awareness-raising and felt it necessary to improve their literacy rate to achieve it, gave him instructions, saying 'it is necessary to issue newspapers written in Korean language to achieve Korean independence and Korean people's enlightenment.'
朝鮮の一般庶民の意識改革の為、識字率を上げる必要を感じていた福沢は、朝鮮政府に招聘された井上と、同じく招聘された同門の牛場卓蔵、高橋正信に「朝鮮の独立と朝鮮人の啓蒙の為には、朝鮮語による新聞の発行が不可欠」と訓示した。