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Dharma_Blue
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Otherside
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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| What I don't get is, why is this stuff even newsworthy? Foreigners (especially EFL teachers) get a huge amount of media coverage relative to their numbers. The figures for foreigners in Korea number around 1million and only about 3% of those are English Teachers (perhaps 6% if you count the ridiculously inflated number of illegal teachers). Why don't the other foriegners in Korea get a lot of press? It's embarressing really. |
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Dharma_Blue
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EzeWong
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Otherside wrote: |
| What I don't get is, why is this stuff even newsworthy? Foreigners (especially EFL teachers) get a huge amount of media coverage relative to their numbers. The figures for foreigners in Korea number around 1million and only about 3% of those are English Teachers (perhaps 6% if you count the ridiculously inflated number of illegal teachers). Why don't the other foriegners in Korea get a lot of press? It's embarressing really. |
1) Because good news is boring... ie. BREAKING NEWS, ESL TEACHER covers grammar. Vocabulary at 7:00.
2) Comparing population numbers is inaccurate measure of portrayal in the media. There is no ratio of population size to media news. It's irrelevant as reporters care to create sensation (usually by demonizing someone... in this case us)
3) It's the media... most of them are desperate for anything they consider newsworthy. Media all around the world is pretty stupid (with the exception of the BBC). I mean, hell, the Metro's front page cover was "subway fare increases by 5 cents" when Spain had that devastating terrorist attack. People in the media are so stupid, biased, and witch hunters. A lot of them exploit the ignorance of the general masses to sensationalize shitty headlines... |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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Anything to draw heat away from the several hundred illegal fake degrees found at the Korean insurance company would look good these days, I suppose.
Were they gyopos? |
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sarbonn
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Michigan
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| That's the thing that gets me. Almost always, these big breaking stories come RIGHT AFTER someone high up in the Korean Government has done something almost identical but on a much larger level. Then it's back to bashing English teachers, as if they somehow caused that ultra rich corrupt politician to fake his diploma, which got him ultra rich and famous. |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
Anything to draw heat away from the several hundred illegal fake degrees found at the Korean insurance company would look good these days, I suppose.
Were they gyopos? |
 Yup. Isn't it strange? |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 4:42 am Post subject: |
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Complaints about the mass media are commonplace.
To begin, there is the low quality of many of the programmes and articles. There is the regular portrayal of violence, given an attention out of proportion with its frequency in everyday life. More generally, most of the mass media give much more attention to crime, deaths, disasters, wars and strife than to harmonious communities, acts of kindness and win-win conflict resolution.
The mass media frequently create unrealistic fears about criminals, foreign peoples and mass protest.
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To be fair to Korea the blame the foreigner thing is not only a Korean media trait. It is done all round the world. It doesn't make it right, but it makes it more commonplace. And on that note:
Yes, the media are biased. What can be done about it? Jeff Cohen, of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), has a strategy. He says
be sceptical of media stories
write letters to media companies, make complaints, join talk-back radio
don't advocate censorship, but instead advocate presentation of both sides on any issue
use public access TV
hold meetings and pickets
use alternative media
This has been your anti-establishment post for the day. Cheers!!! |
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NoExplode
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| I have yet to meet a male gyopo that didn't deal. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| I have yet to meet a male gyopo that didn't deal. |
Branch out of your slum. I have yet to meet a gyopo that dealt.
BassExpander's post is what I came here to say.
Dokdo took people's attention off the flawed Crazy Cow protests and that stupidity of Korean media and masses.
This recent (non)story will take heat off the HUNDREDS of Koreans at AIG busted for fake degrees.
Typhoon
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| hold meetings and pickets |
Better read the visa regulations before you start doing that in Korea. |
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Whirlwind
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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| Yep, Koreans are always in denial. They always have someone to blame for anything stupid that they do. Korea will never, ever evolve(not that it's likely to happen anyway) until they start a little thing called self-reflection. A little honesty goes a long way, Korea. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: Re: FOREIGNER ENGLISH TEACHERS DO DRUGS, HAVE FAKE DEGREES |
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True in my case, I'm afraid. I'm a dope-smoking alcoholic pervert and didn't even graduate from fuckin high school |
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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I wish I were an LA pothead gyopo
Cause that is what I'd really like to be
I wish I were a LA pothead gyopo
Cause everyone would buy their hash from me |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| You guys can read those articles? |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
| You guys can read those articles? |
대단하죠  |
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