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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: Iranians, Moroccans, and Libyan busted for teaching Engl |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/07/117_27306.html
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By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter
The Korean broker said, ``Language school owners prefer white people to colored foreigners. In the market, the demand for white instructors is very high.''
A manager of a major English education academy also agreed that skin color is sometimes more important than teaching ability on the market. |
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I'm Puerto Rican and I have dark brown hair and brown eyes. Is this really going to be a factor in the way I'm treated in S. Korea? I'm kinda white though. Was born and raised in the US.... Sorry, this article is making me sick. Well, at least this part is. |
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holden_caulfield
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: NYC
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: Re: Iranians, Moroccans, and Libyan busted for teaching Engl |
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Keith?
Keith Thornton? |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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santafly
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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First of all - Nice screen name Dr. Octo
So I look pretty "different" ethnically - depending on where I am I can pass for Asian, Native American, or Latino (I'm actually eastern-european). I had trouble with recruiters - but you shouldn't work with recruiters anyway. To generalize, Koreans and other east Asians, are prejudiced against black people. Also, if you look like a troll (nothing offensive here - I love Latin America/ have traveled there a lot/ was married to a Peruvian - but some people look like trolls) I think Koreans will take notice - but who cares. You might want to go with a big city though - I live in dowtown seoul - I see black english teachers every week - I think I even saw a mexican/american english teacher once and there seem to be same shady looking latinos (columbians?) around - I yelled "Oye" at some guy that walked by last night but he didn't respond.
Realize that Koreans are obsessed with being white - I enjoy flaunting my dark skin. |
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Evanzinho
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
Location: California
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: Re: Iranians, Moroccans, and Libyan busted for teaching Engl |
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
| chronicpride wrote: |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/07/117_27306.html
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By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter
The Korean broker said, ``Language school owners prefer white people to colored foreigners. In the market, the demand for white instructors is very high.''
A manager of a major English education academy also agreed that skin color is sometimes more important than teaching ability on the market. |
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I'm Puerto Rican and I have dark brown hair and brown eyes. Is this really going to be a factor in the way I'm treated in S. Korea? I'm kinda white though. Was born and raised in the US.... Sorry, this article is making me sick. Well, at least this part is. |
I have a similar look as you and after asking around, I found out that some people think I'm Arab, even though I have Southern European heritage. Apparently, even some at my school, when they saw my photo that I had sent in, had second thoughts on hiring me because of my tan complexion.
A word of advice; try to 'lighten up" your photo before you send it out.
Apparently, if you're Portuguese, Italian, Greek, etc, that doesn't count as "White" here in Korea. 
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| santafly wrote: |
| I enjoy flaunting my dark skin. |
Burberry Man? |
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idiotinkorea
Joined: 25 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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ridiculous rampant racist prejudices.
i enjoy telling koreans that they look japanese/chinese/vietnamese or even somalian. some of them -those who still are able to maintain composture- will reply that they are "korean-korean". then i just ask whether their relatives are perhaps "korean-japanese"/"korean-somali", and .... i love keeping my calmness in front of yelling and crazy people. |
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Wait a second.......a story about people other than white NETs getting busted for illegally teaching English? What is this nation coming to? I feel the unraveling of Korean society is at hand. |
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Jandar
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Why wasn't the Headline.
"Thirty Korean Owned and Operated Language Schools Found Employing Illegal Foriegners" |
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MissSeoul
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Somewhere in America
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: Iranians, Moroccans, and Libyan busted for teaching Engl |
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| Evanzinho wrote: |
Apparently, if you're Portuguese, Italian, Greek, etc, that doesn't count as "White" here in Korea. |
I am a Korean.
I've never met Portuguese, Greek, so I don't know, but Italian we consider them White. Korean in general like Italian. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Why don't they just publish the names and locations of all the academies involved so that other academies will be too freaked out to try this shit? |
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wings
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: Great Reporting! |
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I like the total contradiction here:
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| the six had light colored skin and spoke as if they came from countries whose mother tongue was English. |
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| They mainly taught pre school and primary school children, as it is easy to conceal their poor proficiency |
Great reporting! Which is it? Do they speak English perfectly or do they have poor proficiency? |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Libyans have white skin and blue eyes??? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| nautilus wrote: |
| Libyans have white skin and blue eyes??? |
I've met some Lebonese who had blue or green eyes. Arabs are defined linguistically, not genetically, after all. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| Why don't they just publish the names and locations of all the academies involved so that other academies will be too freaked out to try this shit? |
Because of Korea's freaky libel laws, possibly. |
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