Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Kepler]

[figshdg]

[krnpowr]

[figshdg]

[byrddogs]

Weird that the Chinese in Shanghai could care less about whether you are H�ngu�, Měigu� de, Yīnggu� de, or whatever. We are all Laowai, but you really don't hear that nearly as much as you hear Waygook thrown around in the ROK.

[andrewchon]

That's because in Shanghai there aren't any white-devils with specials priviliges. In Hong Kong before the hand-over the white-devils were deeply resented. Korea has the 8th Army.

[Squire]

[andrewchon]

[12ax7]

[andrewchon]

Pardon mon francaise comedie. I'm still waiting for Squire to explain his assertion. If you can't, then kindly remove your post.

[KimchiNinja]

Cmon guys, the exact same thing happens in the United States and on a much larger scale.

Example A: I lived in this swanky condo and who cleans the building? Some poor Russian lady of course! Because no American wants that job. She said I was the only nice person in the building, the other 400 people all looked down on here, even the building mgmt treated her and all the other "foreigners", one level above dirt!

Example B: Take the typical office. Every office has a few people from India or China who don't speak flawless English or have an accept. The second your typical American hears that accent they categorize them as a "dumb foreigner" who is somehow beneath them (even though the "dumb foreigner" has an MBA, CPA, CFA and double the Amercian's IQ). Higher educated people don't tend to think this way, but the average American does think this way.

It happens on a much smaller scale in KR, because there are almost no foreigners here. People are just more obvious about it.

[fosterman]

ummm might sound harsh, but I have traveled all over asia, and I found Korea to be the most, well , how can I say, the most uninviting to foreigners, I mean don't get me wrong. they are kind and nice face to face, always found most koreans to be polite toward me, but what I found was the Chinese seemed more friendly and open to foreigners and wouldn't mind so much a foreigner entering their family, or dating their sister, same goes for the japanese, thai, vietnamese etc. But Koreans seem to be extremely more conservative than the others and have a real chip on their shoulder.

and when you travel to Asian countries, locals say negative things about Korean shoppers and Korean tourists. so I don't know..
I am not Korean, so I don't know.. but .... yeah Koreans do come across as arrogant and a little stuck up at times.

new money syndrome so to speak.

[Dodge7]