Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Troll_Bait]

Look at the pictures below.

The first is of Lee Hyori.

The second is of Amerie (Amerie Mi Marie Rogers), an _actual_ half-Korean, half-African-American woman.

[butlerian]

So what?

[Alyallen]

Oh stop it!

I don't see any resemblance. Lee Hyori has her hair in some re-god damn-diculous hair style...that's about all I can see....

[VanIslander]

They are both beautiful women with a similar look.

And Lee Hyori is a very atypical Korean woman: confident, non-girlish, joyful and comfortable with a tan.

But if you want to look for African descent in the Korean population it's all over the place. Koreans are blind to the wide genetic variety that exists here. I see Pacific islander, African, Mongolian, Japanese, Indian characteristics here. The noses and lips are so glaringly obvious yet Koreans are blind to the differences, have adopted them as their own, which is good, but selective, to the chagrin of those with certain traits that don't make it through the cultural filter (hair, eye, skin colour).

[RACETRAITOR]

And then there was Yin Soon-yi.

[Alyallen]

[cwemory]

[Alyallen]

[dogshed]

When I was in high school I met the daughter of a
friend of my fathers. She was a couple of years older
than me. She had her mother's southern European dark skin
and hair but her father's northern European epicanthic folds.
She said she would pretend to be a foreign exchange student
from china and people would believe her.

[Smee]

Can't find the link now, but there was, apparently, an Indian queen who married into the Korean royal family hundreds (maybe a thousand) years ago. I don't recall the facts, as I can't access the link, but maybe somebody else can fill in.

And, of course, there are Koreans who look like this:

[Qinella]

[Alyallen]

[Guri Guy]

I dunno if most Koreans look African but apparently some people think that they control how African Americans look in America. Here's an article that has some videos after.

Do Korean-Americans control the black hair care market?

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

There�s a self-funded documentary causing some buzz online. The documentary, �Black Hair,� is by a white filmmaker named Aron Ranen.

It positions itself as an expose revealing that �Koreans have come to control virtually every aspect of the multi-billion dollar, black hair care industry, from manufacturing to distribution to retail sales, while simultaneously employing tactics to put African-American merchants and wholesalers out of business,� as per this EURWeb.com article. (Thanks to mr guy for the tip!)

I haven�t had a chance to watch the entire thing yet, but it�s definitely an interesting topic. I worry though, that a project like this will only serve to escalate tensions between blacks and Koreans. In fact, one of the black distributors featured in the film was arrested for allegedly attempting to burn down the store of a Korean competitor.

Also, I wonder if the film will attempt to explore why it is that African-Americans don�t control a larger share of the black hair care market. After all, there�s been a long history of entrepreneurship among black women, in particular (think Madame CJ Walker). What happened between then and now? And how were Korean immigrants able to break into this industry when the barriers to entry � in the beginning, at least � must have been quite formidable?

http://www.racialicious.com/2006/12/15/do-korean-americans-control-the-black-hair-care-market/

[RACETRAITOR]

[dogshed]