Korean Job Discussion Forums

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Wow, here all this time I thought the only thing Koreans reviled more than a Korea woman married to a GI was their mixed off spring. And now one has carried the Super Bowl and he's Korea's latest local-boy-made-good hero.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20060206/sp_nm/nfl_super_korea_dc_1

flakfizer · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

I knew this was coming. I saw a thing on TV about Hines Ward several years ago, so I knew that he was half Korean. More importantly, I knew that members of the Korean press knew he is half Korean. Maybe next season they'll show Steelers games every Sunday (Monday here). Good news if you're a Steelers fan. Why won't Korea just agree to share the Dokdo islands with Japan? They can still be proud, knowing that all that is good about them can be attributed to their Korean-ness.

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BigBlackEquus · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:28 am Post subject:

He'll fit right in... Laughing

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

It's a shame it took the Korean press 8 long years to give him the coverage he deserves. I think he's coming because he wants to change people's attitudes towards mixed Koreans. He most certainly knows his life would have been very different had he grown up in Korea.

It's a step in the right direction, but mixed Koreans will still be subjected to racial discrimination for many years to come.

xeno439 · Joined: 30 Nov 2005

One of my Korean coworkers said many Koreans don't like black and Korean mixed children, but it is not so bad for Korean and white. Hines Ward does not fit right in in her opinion.

buymybook · Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Location: Telluride

This one Korean adult acquaintance of mine said "Hines Ward looks like a Gorilla."

My response was in the form of a question, I asked...Is that what Korean mothers make?

no response Rolling Eyes

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

There is still a deep subteranean hate on for blacks flowing through the Korean psyche. It's primative and backwards and ignorant. They will never be the fabled "hub of asia" till they grow up and get some maturity, and and some cosmopolitan sophistication.

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/

This guy has a great post up about the whole thing. He's half-black and Korean.

supernick · Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Hater,

That blog was a good read.

Maybe Hines should give a speach about Korea's racism. If he wasn't voted MVP or wasn't a sports star, i doubt that he could hail a cab in Seoul.

What if he grew up in Korea? Do you think he could have achieved the same level of success? Would he have been allowed to be on any teams? How would the people have treated him. He was successful because he grew up in a country that, for the most part looked at him for his talents and not his race, something that Korea can't possibly do.

Koreans would like to think that he is successful because he is part Korean, but the truth is, Hines is successful because he grew up in a country far removed from Korean madness.