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[jdog2050]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15768998/Nhrck-Report-2

This is a report with some really good, hard numbers about what's happening in Korea in terms of the outcry over foreigners committing crimes versus the number of actual crimes committed. It's honestly kind of disturbing as it confirms what we've pretty much known: a lot of the government actions towards foreigners are simply not based in fact, and are done to quell xenophobic factions of the Korean public.

[Clockout]

Thanks.

Looks interesting.

[ChilgokBlackHole]

What outcry? What are you talking about?

[Sadebugo1]

[mc_jc]

The only amazing thing I see is the lack of consensus within the expat community in general, and ESL community in particular, about the state sponsored discriminatory practices of the Korean immigration agency.
To many, especially those on F-visas, feel that as long as it doesn't affect them, then there is no outcry or controversy. The same goes for those who have been in Korea for a short time and base their opinions after only a few months.
While Koreans will most likely stick together on issues that affect them, foreigners are so diverse and treated so differently that it is impossible for the expat community to come together for a single cause. Koreans see this and count on this division. If there was an issue that effected Koreans living in a particular country, the local Korean association most likely would contact each and every member of the Korean expat community and ask them for their support in discussing the issue with the relevant government. We don't have such a unified association for our community who will speak for us and our issues with the Korean government (the only time we saw something even close to a unified response within the foreign community was when Korea was going to ban 2 and 3 degree, which would've effectively shut out most people from the commonwealth).
I do support the requirements as long as their is sufficient proof to their claims of the assumed "crime wave" committed by Koreans. But most of the news is hearsay and based on the crimes of a few people out of the almost 1 million foreigners currently residing in Korea.

[pkang0202]

Foreigners from the English speaking countries are a minority among foreigners in Korea. Our voice is about as loud as the sound of a pin drop.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Smee]

That link is the same paper released last year.

I wasn't aware the report was discredited. It makes a pretty strong case for discrimination and distortion in the media and among lawmakers, both of which feed the other.

Certainly ATEK has been discredited, and Ben Wagner looks like he's "stirring the pot" because except for a few bloggers he's the only one out there doing research and making progress. ATEK never survived its little scandals, and its silence over about the past half-year has been deafening. They can no longer be considered a formidable organization, but I don't recall the F-series people ever taking any exception to what Wagner wrote. They seemed to be just beating the same anti-ATEK drum.

[eamo]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[eamo]

[smee18]

Urbanmyth, which facts were discredited?

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Trevor]

[PatrickGHBusan]