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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

No Foreigners Allowed: Discrimination Legal in Korea
Arnold knew of only one pool in town, but when she went there she was told, "No Foreigners Allowed." She asked a Korean co-worker to call for her and explain that she had to swim for health reasons. "I explained about you (doctor's order) but they said no," the co-worker wrote in a follow up e-mail. "Foreigner(s) cannot use the pool."

Korean law allows privately run businesses to refuse service to would-be customers based on nationality.

Since 2002, 93 foreigners have filed discrimination complaints with the commission. Another 1,682 claim their rights to freedom have been violated in that time. A violation of one's right to freedom includes being beaten by a boss or co-worker, which happens to one in five migrant workers in Korea, according to Amnesty International.
By Christopher Carpenter, Korea Times (December 12, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/special/200612/kt2006121219555767650.htm

http://photo.hankooki.com/newsphoto/2006/12/12/ensor200612122018471nofor3.jpg

"No chair for foreigner" GM Daewoo head told
The "no-foreigners" rule was first made in 2001 when then-Samsung Motor was being sold to Renault.
by Kim Tae-jin and Lee Ho-jeong, JoongAng Daily (January 18, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200501/17/200501172228551609900090509051.html

PimpofKorea · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:55 am Post subject:

That does it...I'm flying Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton over here....their days are numbered....you can bet your sweet peepee on that.

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

PimpofKorea · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:10 am Post subject:

Those bastids.....but if the sign said "pimps not welcome here" well.....I'd have to lay waste to it with a properly thrown molotov cocktail through their front door.

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

I got refused health club membership because of my tattoo once.
For every place that does, there are many more that will take you though.

PimpofKorea · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:20 am Post subject:

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

I just tell those same people Englisheee NOT free.. SA ManWon pleachu.

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

Maybe she was discriminated against because she was a "girl" named Arnold? Laughing

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

I'm down with the idea of private business being able to serve or refuse membership to whoever they want. I am also down with the idea of spreading the message about what these assclowns do and boycotting and/or making their actions known.

Homer · Guest

Idiotic behaviour!

Too bad these things happen.

Best thing to fo (when you can) is take your business elsewhere....the idiot who refused you ends up losing revenue.

Fortunately, for every place that refuses you can usually find 20 that will accept everyone....except for the OP who seems to have no other options...

As a related story, there was a place in my neighborhood in Busan that started to refuse foreigners (it was a public bath) after 4 soldiers went there drunk and trashed the place....

The owner over reacted and banned all foreigners...a bad move.

His place closed within a year.

Octavius Hite · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:11 am Post subject:

I totally agree, in the end the big green always rules the day. And Korean's wonder why no other country respects them or considers them the "Hub of Northeast Asia".

thebum · Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Location: North Korea

that's legal in the usa too. private companies can do that if they want.

RJjr · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Location: Turning on a Lamp

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005