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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
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| If you have some ideas about how to protest then get out there and show everyone how it's done. |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| It is illegal to protest while on an E2. Yeah the placards in English,look arrogant and just give ammunition to the anti-foreigner crowd. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
| If you have some ideas about how to protest then get out there and show everyone how it's done. |
Do it Korean style?
Also I don't think this would count as political action, unless MBC is a government agency. The lawyerly amongst us might be wise to repackage the whole thing as a "Customer Complaint" to circumvent any potential legal issues. |
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fosterman
Joined: 16 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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17 people out of 30.000 ESL teachers, 30.000 military , and countless other foreigners?
you know if this was Fox News in the states and they said, Koreans are blar blar you would have a sea of 100.000 Koreans wearing red devil tshirts, all cheering daehanminguk, and NO NO USA, NO NO FOX NEWS! until the cows come home, in a matter of hours.
MBC, KBS, SBS will all dispatch reporters to the states, to cover the demonstrations.. it would be on every front page news paper in korea, internet portal site, and news show.
but when it's in Korea about foreigners... guess what? NO one cares!
because foreigners don't give a rats asss
what we need are some arabs in our corner, those guys know how to protest!
get the arabs, then we bring the noise. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:12 am Post subject: |
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you know if this was Fox News in the states and they said, Koreans are blar blar you would have a sea of 100.000 Koreans wearing red devil tshirts, all cheering daehanminguk, and NO NO USA, NO NO FOX NEWS! until the cows come home, in a matter of hours.
MBC, KBS, SBS will all dispatch reporters to the states, to cover the demonstrations.. it would be on every front page news paper in korea, internet portal site, and news show. |
Yeah, I remember the great Korean-American protests of 1992 after the Rodney King riots and the Hundred-Thousand Korean march on the Washington Mall after Jay Leno cracked some jokes about Koreans and dogs.
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what we need are some arabs in our corner, those guys know how to protest!
get the arabs, then we bring the noise. |
Yeah, I'm sure those dockworkers from Egypt making 1/4th of what you do have a lot of sympathy for how negatively you are perceived and portrayed by the people here. Especially with the active stance we have taken on their behalf in the past when things happened like them being kept in virtual slavery or working 16 hours a day and getting their wages stolen. And it's not like we have a massive nationalistic bias when it comes to "foreigners" in Korea and demand stuff in English for the 60,000 of us but could care less for the 100s of thousands who speak Chinese or Vietnamese.
That might be step one- If you're going to move on an incident, maybe choose one that can get us 300,000 in our corner, not 30,000.
I mean, seriously, are you going to go up to a Middle Easterner and whine and moan about how you're portrayed by the media? A Middle-Easterner? The people who watched as the media cheerleaded a war into Iraq and continually portrays Arabs and Muslims as 7th-Century living psychos? |
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Old fat expat
Joined: 19 Sep 2005
Location: a caravan of dust, making for a windy prairie
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, quit ya complaining and git back to work, bloody imports! |
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sml7285
Joined: 26 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| Yeah, I remember the great Korean-American protests of 1992 after the Rodney King riots and the Hundred-Thousand Korean march on the Washington Mall after Jay Leno cracked some jokes about Koreans and dogs. |
+1 |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:29 am Post subject: |
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1- Protesting while on an E2 is a bad move as it is illegal.
2- IF you insist on protesting then using signs written in English only is dumb and ineffective. At the very least considering you are in KOREA make your signs bilingual (Korean-English). |
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thunderbird
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| U gotta B kiddin me? 15 peep came out 4 this? |
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goreality
Joined: 09 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:04 am Post subject: |
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Even those people in America's Most Hated Family had higher turnouts to some of their protests.
I wouldn't worry about the illegality of protesting very much for an issue like this. If the Korean government decided to prosecute you for it, it would make a much more interesting story for international news stations to pick up, specially if the riot cops rolled in. |
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Dodge7
Joined: 21 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| thunderbird wrote: |
| U gotta B kiddin me? 15 peep came out 4 this? |
ya dawg, can u beleave it? pretty bunk ya dig mane? whatchu doin lata 2nite? tex me up sumtime, aiight? |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| goreality wrote: |
Even those people in America's Most Hated Family had higher turnouts to some of their protests.
I wouldn't worry about the illegality of protesting very much for an issue like this. If the Korean government decided to prosecute you for it, it would make a much more interesting story for international news stations to pick up, specially if the riot cops rolled in. |
Actually since the person would be in clear violation of his visa rules, this would not be much of a story....but hey you are free to believe what you wish. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| About 15 people showed up and then later a few confused security guards. It wasn't really that impressive for a facebook group that has 7,000+ members. |
That's pretty good. Just took one week this time around for people to realize that they won't be run out of the country by an angry mob armed with pitchforks and scythes. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:37 am Post subject: |
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| rollo wrote: |
| It is illegal to protest while on an E2. Yeah the placards in English,look arrogant and just give ammunition to the anti-foreigner crowd. |
Yes, I agree. In fact, the same thought crossed me mind while looking at an English-only petition that popped up today.. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it just me, or did the guy with his wife misspell "victim" on his sign? |
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