Superficial To The Max (Eng/Kor)

Posted: 2005/02/07  By: Fall Guy's Friend (Views:3230)

South Korea is much worse than Canada and the U.S. with respect to the problems you brought up
in your very superficial post, and some well known South Koreans will admit it such as the free
lance writer who pens the Seoul Searcher column for The Korea Herald English language
newspaper. In fact, this guy is extremely critical of the status quo in South Korea.

You do not do justice to Kor Sux's letter by mindlessly writing that every country is not
perfect and has problems. The point here is that South Korea has an unacceptably high number of
social problems and foreign residents of the country who have a stake in the place should not
have to suffer in silence.

It's not normal in the U.S. to be attacked by a group of whites for being an Asian and then
detained by the police for a day or two for reporting the attack. This has happened to me and
every other caucasian I've met who went to the police after being attacked here in South Korea.

It's not normal in the U.S. and Canada to be defrauded by every employer but it is in South
Korea.

Employers in the U.S. do not routinely go unpunished for freely admitting to the police that
they tried to murder or physically assault a foreigner who worked for them because she or he
reported the employer's on-going acts of contract fraud to the Department of Labor.

The U.S. and Canada do not have an incredibly high number of motels, restaurants, bars, night
clubs, and coffee shops that bar foreigners from the premises because it's against the law.
Here in South Korea, there are lots of them and it's considered socially acceptable and it's
legal.

Western nations have Affirmative Action laws that guarantee jobs and other freebies to Asians
and other foreigners; Korean schools, from kindergartens to the universities, not only teach
students to hate foreigners but ridicule those in their employ and those who attend them.
K.A.I.S.T. is one such example where the Nobel Laureate from Stanford is, as I and so many
other foreigners predicted long ago, the object of large-scale resentment because he has tried
to improve the school. Two of my friends from Canada attend Yonsei University in Seoul and have
horror stories about the humiliating abuse they have suffered from many students and some
professors. This shit goes unpunished in South Korea but is punishable by law in the U.S. and
Canada.

It's not normal in the U.S. and Canada for people to label foreigners who work there as
"unemployable losers" simply because they work there but it is normal for Koreans to utter such
hateful insults about its foreign residents.

Korean women go to the U.S. and Canada to give birth so that their kids can gain automatic
citizenship and all of the economic and social advantages that go with it. Canadians and
Americans do not gain automatic citizenship simply because they were born in the R.O.K. Go to
any Korean city and you will find Korean companies that, without shame, sell seminars on how to
defraud countries such as Canada and the U.S. who grant citizenship to all who are born there.
Many of my students have admitted to me without any sense of shame that their parents moved to
the U.S. to give birth so that they could get all of the social and economic advantages
afforded by American citizenship.

It's not normal for Asians to be routinely harshly bumped into on the streets of America and
Canada but whites and blacks suffer this sort of treatment daily in South Korea. Do not try to
write this off as a consequence of living in crowded Korean cities because American, Canadian.
English, and Japanese cities, like New York City, Toronto, Montreal, London, Osaka, and
Houston, are very heavily populated as well but do not have this hostile, anti-foreigner trait.

Korean cities do not, with the exception of the small Russian outfit in Busan, have large
foreign criminal gangs but many American and some Canadian cities have murderous Korean gangs.

Only a tiny percentage of caucasians in North America would stare at Asians in their presence
but many, many Koreans do it on a routine basis.

There are so many other objectively discernible differences between Korea and North America,
too. I'll post them here at another time.