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[Summer Wine]

I read this article. I thought that it does show a good understanding of the wrong koreans to have in your country.

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A SHORT trip to Davao City this week has kept me thinking a lot about Koreans. I don�t know a single Korean, by personal or Koreanovela encounter, but I can�t keep them out of my mind these days. The ubiquitous Koreans have not endeared themselves to Filipinos, at least the ones who have dealt with them in one way or another, despite the Philippines being host of the biggest Korean population in Southeast Asia. To me, they�re a noisy lot when they ride the plane and they always make me feel excluded by their incomprehensible talk. One of these days, I�m going to get one of those �Jumong� actors to teach me Korean.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2007/06/28/oped/michelle.p..so.caught.in.the.net.html

They really do look bad in this article, though she does seem to be just saying it as she sees it.

[BuHaoChi]

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[RACETRAITOR]

A Korean guy I know moved to Indonesia recently and had some interesting things to say about Koreans in Indonesia.

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[Guri Guy]

It seems Koreans are getting quite a bad reputation in the Philippines. I heard many Filipinos wouldn't marry Koreans because of the fear of domestic violence. Whether this is true or not the market for arranged marriages in the Philippines for Koreans has dried up. Apparently they have moved on to Vietnam. It'd be interesting to hear the Vietnamese perspective on Koreans.

[jaganath69]

In all fairness, the bit about taxi drivers keeping their 25 centavos because Koreans want all the change from the fare is just an example of the Koreans assuming things are like they are back home. You get your cab change to the last baek won here, whether you want it or not. There is no tipping culture and what they are doing is pretty much akin to the scores of young North Americans who come here every year and start trying to tip like they do back home.

[indytrucks]

It's not just the Philippines. Last summer at Angkor, my driver (who I hired for a week and had built up quite a little rapport with by the end) told me at dinner on the last night I was there that Koreans and Korean tour groups were the most hated tourists (by Khmers) at Angkor. It didn't always use to be that way ... I told him I was there 5 years ago, and at that time the scourges of the tourist community were, according to him, Israelis.

[Summer Wine]

I was talking to a co teacher last night on the way home and she mentioned that there had been a documentary on Korean TV about Korean students who were going to the Philippines, dating Filipino women, getting them pregnant and then going back to Korea and never contacting them again.

Supposedly it had not made the filipinos very happy. Go figure. I do think that Korean tourists are their own worst enemy sometimes.

I met a scuba instructor in the Philippines who said he would never dive with them again. Said that they failed to listen to instructions and would just do what ever pleased them, regardless of whether it was dangerous or not.

I think that many Koreans don't like certain behaviors but its not really considered polite to make an issue about them, so it just goes on. The problem is when the same behaviours are carried out oversea and the local people in their countries don't view it as favorably and don't feel any restrictions about saying so.

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[BuHaoChi]

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[Summer Wine]