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I want and try to like Korea. I am a fairly positive person, but not an apologist. I have lived all over Asia and have been in Asia for 24 years now.
That being said, once in awhile things take me back. Recently, I was on holiday in Thailand and they had a KBS World channel and the cable in my hotel. Chit=chat with beautiful women was on and was sub-titled. Out of curiosity I watched ir. The commentator asked a series of loaded questions:

What do you think of foreigners who do not learn Korean?

Tell is about some embarrassing things you have seen foreigners do?

Each question was to find demeaning examples of foreigners, especially foreign men.

These girls proceeded to give their examples and opinions, all of which painted foreigners in Korea in a very negative light.

They also took every opportunity to speak of how sparkling Korea is. many had Korean boyfriends.

I have never heard of a country that had a show whose obvious intention is to demean the foreigners in their country.

How can Korea be serious about improving their image abroad when they send the message that this show sends?

I can't imagine this type of show being aired in any Western country, it would be banned.

The apparent fact that it is aired shows how out of touch the media is with the rest of the civilized world.

Sure, there are foreigners who do bad things. People do bad things. Even Koreans do bad things. Unfortunately, shows like this seem to paint all foreigners (especially men) with the same brush.

Personally, I do not like these girls!

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There's a one-word explanation for just about all the weird behavior that Koreans display toward foreigners: jealousy.

Also, there was another thread about this particular show recently. One standout comment:

"There's a reason why it's called 'Chatting with the Beauties', not 'Chatting with the Smarties'"

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

There is one way to like Korea that I have found -

Make as much money as I can here and live in my own bubble with my non Korean friends and ignore most Koreans I come into contact with either in person or by extension through their media etc.

I like the country, just not really the way most of the people act nor their culture...

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The people who want to like Korea need to do one thing. Get over themselves. It is a hard truth and there is going to be a lot of whining and flaming over that, but I notice a marked difference between those who like Korea and those who don't. Not to say there aren't exceptions, but it doesn't take much of following what people say to see what kind of frame of mind they're in.

"Sure, there are foreigners who do bad things. People do bad things. Even Koreans do bad things. Unfortunately, shows like this seem to paint all foreigners (especially men) with the same brush. "

"Sure, there are Koreans who do bad things. People do bad things. Even Foreigners do bad things. Unfortunately, posters like this seem to paint all Koreans (especially men) with the same brush."

Just because some idiot TV host said something or some girls getting paid a ton of money to talk trash played along with it, isn't representative of the whole country. If you want to take a show as representative of a whole country, I watched a great interview with Orly Taitz yesterday..

there is absolute garbage on TV in most countries. There are jerks in every country.

[waynehead]

It irritates me too, sometimes, but the previous poster is correct. What if immigrants/foreigners living in my home country (the US) judged the entire nation by what they see on TV? Glenn Beck, Dancing with the Stars, etc etc? Actually many probably do, but they're just as wrong as we are over here.

It can be difficult to maintain perspective but generally speaking TV shows are not the best way to understand what's going on in the real world, and should be avoided as much as possible.

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