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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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Anyway, from the article itself, Mr. Choi's proposals don't really amount to much at all...
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Rep. Choi Young-hee of the main opposition Democratic Party submitted the bills obliging foreign English teachers to present criminal record and health check documents, including HIV-AIDS tests, before they are hired at public or private schools.
Under immigration regulations, applicants for an E-2 English teaching visa have been required to submit those documents since December 2007.
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The information contained in the second paragrpah would seem to negate any real point to the bills described in the first paragraph. I suspect that Mr. Choi is mostly just proposing some meaningless revisions to the already existing requirements, in order to make it look like he's taking on the foreign miscreants full-throttle.
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Check it again. The second paragraph refers to Immigration regulations for E-2 teachers.
Whereas the first paragraph wants to make this Korean LAW and for ALL foreign teachers regardless of visa status. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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It's Ms. Choi. I corrected my OP. Next, the rep wants to make it law. Her stated reason for proposing this legislation is because of all the foreign teachers who've supposedly been caught doing drugs and doing students and then gotten rehired. Her premise is a lie and she's demonizing foreign teachers for her political career. As a porportional representative, she's an appointee from her party. That means she's not responsible to any electorate, but to her party. Legally, she also has immunity for any statement she makes in the National Assembly while it is in session.
Why shouldn't we foreigners write to her? We live here and, as far as I know, the vast majority of us obey Korean law while here. Actually, the legitimate statistics I've seen--as opposed to stuff made up from whole cloth like this rep's statements--show that a greater percentage of Koreans than the percentage of foreigners violate Korean law, especially laws relating to drugs and sex crimes. Just because someone cannot vote does not mean that the government is not responsible to conduct themselves in a legal and honest manner. And maybe it'll wake the bigot and her party up to the fact that plenty of us are here for longer than one year, that plenty of us are active in our community, and that plenty of us aren't ignorant of her racist/xenophobic comments. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| As a porportional representative, she's an appointee from her party. That means she's not responsible to any electorate, but to her party. |
Yes, but even a proportional delegate is thinking in terms of what will bring votes to her party, if not to her directly. And those votes are coming from voters.
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| And maybe it'll wake the bigot and her party up to the fact that plenty of us are here for longer than one year, that plenty of us are active in our community, and that plenty of us aren't ignorant of her racist/xenophobic comments. |
Probably about as much as a lot of letters from immigrants will wake the British National Party up to the fact that not all immigrants to the UK are criminals and welfare-bums. |
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