Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Wishmaster]

No joke. I was talking to a guy and he says that his director wants to "upgrade" his business and now wants to take advantage of the hype. Yes, apparently Hines is now a full blooded Korean and soon Korean kids will be wanting learn about football. I told him that maybe his director can open a Hines Ward football hagwon and they can hire some westerners to teach the game. Apparently, you win an MVP and everybody claims you and supposedly loves you. But you toil for years in the NFL and nobody knows about you and you are neglected by the Korean media. To the Koreans: Hines Ward is an AMERICAN citizen. He father is AFRICAN-AMERICAN. He is famous for his participation in AMERICAN football(something that Koreans have absolutely no knowledge of). He got his chance in AMERICA and not Korea where he would have been considered at racial garbage(you know that Korean tv ads used to tell pure Koreans to basically shun mixed kids). Disgusting. Now you use his status, when before you could have given a crap about him, just to further your agenda about finding someone in your supposedly 11th ranked economy that can actually be recognized. There isn't one "pure" Korean...like Hwang...so you have to choose a citizen from another country who is only part Asian. Sad, sad, sad......

Of course, with the Olympic thing and Ohno, I'll bet Hines gets thrown on the backburner...

[capebretoncanadian]

[JZer]

[RACETRAITOR]

In Korea if you're mixed blood, they hate you until you become famous. Will this change the lives of half-black Koreans living in this country? I highly doubt it.

But yeah, it's good that they can move to an open-minded country like America where black people are totally embraced without any bigotry.

I say wait a few months until they realise he's a football player, and thus up to his armpits in hookers and performance-enhancing drugs. Then they'll move on. I want to see Korea become obsessed with curling next. Or lawn darts.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[cubanlord]

[JZer]

[gypsyfish]

[noguri]

It is true that Korea has been openly racist but beyond the mindless hype, Hines Ward has actually contributed to opening debate about racism in Korea. I've been told by Koreans that OhMyNews ran a series of interviews with Korean teenagers who are half-black and they spoke in no uncertain terms about the cruel treatment they received from their classmates. Also, Ward's mom was interviewed and she said that when she visited Korea when Hines was a child, people on the street literally spit on her.

The debate has been opened somewhat and is also feeding into the debate on all the Kosians, or Korean-Asians. They are half-Korean children of factory workers and mail-order brides from Phillipines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc. Suddenly a country with no history of immigration or racial diversity is now faced with a lot of cultural diversity and Korea is not prepared to understand it.

Hines Ward is the perfect person to help Koreans begin to understand that today's Korea is more diverse than it ever has been; and that they should embrace this and make their society open to half-Koreans.

Some Koreans have even said that the Kosian issue could become similar to the problem in France with the Algerians and Moroccans who rioted recently, if half-bloods continue to be shut out of Korean society as they have been. There are calls for change.

[JZer]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[JZer]

[cubanlord]