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[Captain Corea]

Totally lost any attraction I had for this chick.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/11/13/2010111300313.html

Not only was her English poor, but her emphasis on Korea being One Race is out of step with modern Korea.

[Swampfox10mm]

She's been heading downhill toward ajumma looks in a big hurry this past year.

The way I see it, she's just a few years away from big glasses, a friz haircut, and clunky shoes with multi-flowered pants.

[PigeonFart]

She's a model turned singer (through the process of sucking certain objects). Of course she's going to be ignorant. You can't expect an open and worldly opinion from someone like that. I'm sure some of you who have mixed race children will feel angry at her comments.

[Stout]

Korean pop singers couldn't give a hoot about foreigners or a more informed world view. They're happy just so long as they're being paid and successful enough to stay out of a Kangnam room salon.

[Swampfox10mm]

Total racist.

And Koreans are not a race. Asians are a race.

And I guess, if you consider a huge percentage of the Korean population being mixed with the blood of Chinese, Japanese, and now Philipino, Canadian, American, etc., as "homogenous," then.......

I suppose she'd claim that Erich Hammel's group had no children (it's documented that some stayed here and did). Also, what of the various countries that overran Korean for centuries? Do you suppose no children were born out of that? How can she explain the dozens of half-Japanese Koreans I've met over the years who were born and raised here? Of course, it was once very easy for the Korean male to put whatever he wanted into the family book.

Homogeneous.... once "race"... ha... she needs to move up North, where her views are a tiny bit more realistic.

[eamo]

Disappointing opinions.

She sounds like a stupid old ajeossi from the Park chung-hee era........Koreans are one. Korean race is pure........yeah, well, there are 1.2 million foreigners living in Korea now! How about us Hyo-ri!!

[Stout]

Of course what she says is crap, she's a K-pop singer! How could anyone have any expectations?

[CentralCali]

[eamo]

[CentralCali]

Oh, I have no doubt there have been racist jackasses all along. When I first lived in Korea, though, they weren't in the forefront as they are now. Most people treated other people like they were other people.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[CentralCali]

Since returning to Korea, I've heard it from some Koreans, not on this board. Even had one old lady stick her nose into my business and tell me that it's immoral for a foreigner to even speak to a Korean woman. Sadly, this old lady is an elementary school teacher. Do you really think that she's somehow keeping that attitude secret from her charges? Enough people like that and there's a sea change in societal attitudes.

[eamo]

[flakfizer]

Let's not be too harsh on K-pop singers. Don't forget that Gu Ha-ra of KARA donated a lot of money to the Japanese after that tsunami and seemed to be truly concerned about the plight of the Japanese.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/03/23/2011032300710.html

A lot of current K-pop groups are more worldly than ex-FinKL members. SNSD and other groups have member who were born overseas or spent a lot of time there. Miss A has two members from China. More than making herself look foolish, I think Hyori made herself look old. She's not part of the younger generation that seems to be much more open-minded and globally aware.

[TheUrbanMyth]