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[Hollywoodaction]

[Beej]

The writer of the editorial forgot to mention other segments of the Korean American population that far outnumber CEOs and the like: Massage parlor owners, hookers, organized criminals, convenience store drones ,and bear poachers.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

[ontheway]

Yes, Wendy Lee Gramm is a silly example. She married Senator Phil Gramm and got a high level government job. A powerful man uses his position to secure a cushy, high level job for his wife. This road to success has been traveled by women throughout history. It does show a Korean woman using her talents to get ahead, just not necessarily her brains.

[flakfizer]

I remember when the Herald seemed to print an article like this just about every week. They've cut back on letters to the editor and those were by far the most entertaining snippets the Herlad ever printed. Anyone else remember when a "Ten Commandments of Teaching English" article seemed to make the paper every year? Those were awful. Anyway, I just want to know what this guy means when he says Koreans in America have achieved so much "under nearly impossible conditions." What the hell is he talking about? Does he feel he has to paint America as being a tough place for foreigners to succeed in to enhance his thesis that Koreans succeed because of their superior minds?

[supernick]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

"Miracle on the Han". "Dynamic Korea". "The hub of Asia". These are all empty marketing slogans invented by Koreans, and the author of the article has simply presented them as self-evidently true to support his prejudice. Korea has industrialized and rebuilt itself in 50 years. And no one else has ever done this? German cities razed at the end of WWII haven't rebuilt themselves? The infrastructures and economies of Canada and the USA weren't significantly different between 1900 and 1950-- and without foreign aid pouring in to assist? We need to challenge these slogans for the empty propaganda they are.

>Koreans in America have achieved so much "under nearly impossible conditions."

What impossible conditions? Poisonous flying monkeys have attacked Korean immigrants only? Everyone else had a coach and venison stew when they came to America? As usual, the most annoying thing is that newspapers which claim to be serious journalism print this self-congratulatory gorp.

Ken:>

[patchy]

[patchy]

That article is wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. I am sick and tired of these Korean Americans who talk as if getting a professional job is the be-all and end-all. It's not that hard to be working for somebody else. In all the examples the writer gives where is the mention of the big company or big-name law practice that has been founded by a Korean-American? One of the Korean-Americans in his list is famous partly by virtue of whom she MARRIED. I really think Koreans are brought up to be 'bots and this is a bigger problem than anything that life in a foreign country is going to throw at them.

I don't see Korean-Americans strong in the field of politics, creating start-ups, getting a name for innovation - I'm not talking about the FOB-Asian migrant thing like being good piano players or cellists or what have you (almost a cliche) but then once again, nothing creative about learning to play a musical instrument as perfectly as a robot .. where are the composers, the people on the cutting edge of the music scene making new styles if we're going to be talking music?

I see a whole lot of mamma's boy-Korean-Americans who write things like this because it gives them a sense of false reassurance that they're still okay even if they can't still get dates (the whine about 'disempowerment' and why women don't think of Asian-Americans as attractive is really loud), even with the Korean-American females. Korean-Americans are really FU'ed up, like a lot of Koreans who have migrated, in that they define success in very narrow terms. They should just stop kidding themselves and realize they have currently very little power in US society. Even less power than the Korean boy selling trinkets in the streets of Seoul has.

And more universities is something that Korea does not need: there are like twenty in Seoul - almost a third of the subway stations are named after a university. Rather, Koreans need fewer universities and the understanding that getting a bachelor's degree is not for everybody. You're not a failure if you don't make it to a SKY university. Korea needs to develop itself more broadly vocation-wise and get rid of the outdated scholar-success syndrome - it's no longer the Joseon era where becoming a yangbang scholar was practically the only way to be considered a success.

I would be more impressed if I had read an article about a Korean-American with no tertiary education who had founded a franchise business from the ground up and had made it into a successful chain; or if I had read about a blue-color worker who had campaigned and gotten himself elected in a city or state election in the US.

Education is not just something you get from attending an institution.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Privateer]

[endofthewor1d]

[EFLtrainer]

[Hollywoodaction]

[Bo Peabody]

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