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[mack4289]

For those who find the story so bad, what kind of story would've been better? In terms of being a simple, informative story, it does the job.

Someone should write a story about how the rapid growth of hagwons and the lax background checks at immigration allow just anyone to come teach here. The Korean system bears a lot of responsibility for that.

[lastat06513]

I already posted a response on one thread and I find it fit to post on this one too.
But I feel the OP in this thread is more vile, greedy, bloodthirsty and disgusting than the guy from Canada (if he is not a troll for this guy as well)

I used to have a popular thread called "Why is it..." that I posted before as a comical piece, but I am going to use it as an irony to the OP

Why is it....

......that as the national editor of one of the most-read newspapers and news sites, you NOW pop your head out of your little hole to write about something bad about the foreign teachers in Korea when many of the foreign teachers are getting shafted and shammed by their Korean employers?

.....with all the racial slurs and assaults that foreigners have to deal with, sometimes on a frequent basis, that you take an assignment that you intend on spinning into more hate-producing rhetoric that will only benefit the xenophobic cretans you work for?

Obviously the OP has no intentions on writing something useful and beneficial to the foreign expat teaching community and only wants to see his name in bold print as it would look exceptionally good on his resume when he leaves Korea.

OP, as a foreigner yourself, you should be well aware of the hate mongering that goes on in the Korean media. Do you think your article will be any different than those anti-foreigner TV spots that are aired periodically on TV?

I feel that the more you try to research this, the deeper the problem will get, and to have your name on it will mean nothing but mud for you in the long run and it will show the expat community that you don't really care about them and only care about yourself.

To me, you seem to be lower than scum....that would be an insult to scum to call you that.....

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[lastat06513]

Seoulsucker~
Thanx for the advice, yet to have a fellow foreigner wanting to get his hands dirty in this and try to use the people on this board to his own advantage shows how spineless and greedy he/she truly is....

Where was he or any of the foreign correspondants for that matter when people were getting assaulted by the staff at Helios a few years back? Why can't he or any other writer do a story about the racism and discrimination people go through in Korea?
Why don't they do a story about the random slurs Koreans say to foreigners and the ill treatment many get when they come to Korea to teach English?

Most people came to Korea of their onw free will with the expectation that they would be treated like human beings, which is sometimes not the case in many jobs....

Trust me, to call this guy an expat is truly an understatement.....to call him a human is also one as well.....



Some people on this board might think bad about me, but I truly like the people here and I think all people are born good, it is the choices they make that are bad.

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[mack4289]

- Here is an article the JA Daily did about UN critcism of Korea's focus on pure blood (The subheading is "Discrimination against foreigners found widespread") http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2879475

- Here is an article the JA Daily did about the discrimination faced by people of mixed blood http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2873135

- Here is an editorial entitled "Dark-skinned people get treated worse" http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2872488

- An article entitled "Expats cite language problems, discrimination" http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2871863

- A front page article about Joe McPherson, the English teacher charged with libel for posting on the net about how he was mistreated by his hagwon http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2876587

As a daily reader of the JA Daily, I've always found it pretty fair. It also covered this case, plus foreigners getting busted for drugs. Fair enough, I've met a lot of foreigners here who I wouldn't want teaching my kids, if I had any.

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