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anjfqhk · Joined: 11 Feb 2010

You said it's offensive if somebody calls a Korean American gyopo? That's not true at all. They know they are gyopos. Nothing wrong with that term. If they call him a twinkie or banana some gets offended though.
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ovrproof · Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Location: St. Lucia

I don't see what the big deal is if you come to Korea to make money. People migrate all over the world from country to country for work. What makes us GETs any different???

When you get an offer that offers you free roundtrip flights, a severance bonus, free rent in a furnished apartment, health insurance and more who wouldnt want to take that if you are willing to go that route???

If Koreans were offered the same thing to teacher korean and get all these perks in another country i'm sure there would be enough people that would want to grab this deal.

I mean i'm not here just for the money, I am here for sure for the experience to be in Asia, and see a different part of the word, but obviously the money and students loans made the decision to teach abroad that much easier. I have korean friends that have a parent working in other parts of asia because they get good money, and i don't see anything wrong with that. I have a few family members that moved to other places around the world because they were offered good money and an attractive package to work abroad. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Anyways, like i said, if you're here for the money that's fine by me but i do think that many of us are here not just for the money, but rather for the experience as well.

frankly speaking · Joined: 23 Oct 2005

What is a GET?

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mc_jc · Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I

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mc_jc · Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I

The term "Jeoson" dennotes the old Jeoson Dynasty, so it was commonly used to explain people from the peninsula during that period.

But the term "Jeoson-jin" sometimes refers to a person who is of mixed Japanese-Korean descent- though many Koreans will refuse to explain it that way. It derives from the Colonial era for Koreans who would work for the Japanese, however it was commonly used to refer to slave laborers and comfort women. Later, it was derogatively used to refer to the people who were of mixed Japanese-Korean lineage, similar to the term "Tikki" for mixed children.

"Jeoson-jeok" was used to explain a person who exiled themselves in China during the colonial period. Koreans use it as a derogatory term to explain Chinese-Koreans. It has come to mean not is the only person originally from China, but that they couldn't be trusted because of that.

As you pointed out, there are many more formal and polite ways to express South and North Koreans without referring to the colonial period.

Koreans use these terms the way others might use the term "n----r" or "s---k" to refer to someone of a certain minority- to marginalize and demean those who are not totally "pure Korean".