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ardis
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| GoldSoundz wrote: |
Yeah, the Chinese seemed to have an excuse for xenopohobia. Being closed off for so long and a one-sided media that let's 'em know they're the greatest people who ever lived. Here in Korea, they don't really have an excuse for prejudice.
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I don't think Koreans were allowed to travel abroad until the 1980s... |
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GoldSoundz
Joined: 12 Jun 2008
Location: Pohang
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Thank you. I didn't realize that, about Koreans traveling only after 1980. Makes sense, though.
Although Koreans certainly do quite a bit now. I believe the number of Koreans who travel abroad is double the number of foreigners who travel into Korea.
Talked with a couple of guys in a bar last night about our experiences in China and the one who'd never worked there was pretty interested in checking it out.
Either place is kind of a trade off to me. Pluses and minuses. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| GoldSoundz wrote: |
Yeah, the Chinese seemed to have an excuse for xenopohobia. Being closed off for so long and a one-sided media that let's 'em know they're the greatest people who ever lived. Here in Korea, they don't really have an excuse for prejudice.
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Korea was pretty closed off until fairly recently (as another poster has pointed out) and their media is hardly balanced either. |
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maingman
Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Location: left Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:46 am Post subject: , |
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Go to Taiwan or China  |
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beast
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| So many foreign English teachers keep telling me that China is so great, blah, blah, blah, and then year after year I keep seeing those same teachers working here in Korea. If it's so great, why aren't they all there? |
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