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[burnt-toast]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/02/117_60240.html

Why do we again and again let this rag and this hack say these things about us. His own article says that no foreigners were teaching illegally and yet he spends the rest of the time saying how we will be targeted, never once mentioning the thousands of Koreans teaching illegally. Of course foreigners teach here illegally, but instead of investigating the why's and hows like a real journlist would do, he just uses rumour and suggestions, no facts. This series claims to be looking at illegal teaching, yet so far both articles have focuses on foreigners teaching illegally, even when the daft git cant find any! What about the people who employ them, the system that forces them to seek illegal teaching, and the many many many koreans who records show do it every day.

I dont want to be dramatic but it comes to a point where you have to believe that the paper is attempting to stir up anti foreigener sentiment here, and when will it stop, when one of us is attacked, who knows, because i can bet you anything that if it did it wouldnt be reported anyway.

disclaimer: i dont care about grammar or spelling mistakes so if you do, please write a book and send it on

thanks

[Triban]

The English army had just won the war.

[Forward Observer]

A crowd of people turned away

[exit86]

What a horrible jumble of random words passed off as a newspaper article. This person lacks the ability to distinguish legally-registered private tutoring (his paragraph about the F-visa holders) and non-registered tutoring--which he simply attributes to "foreigners" though
his sources allude to the problem as truly being an across-the-board
phenomenon involving Korean citizens as well as non-Korean citizens.
The tutoring is illegal for Koreans and F-visa holders if they are not registered with the K. government so that taxes can be taken out of these earnings. Clearly, this is not simply a "foreigner" issue, but this
ape with a computer fails to clarify this fact.

[Agent 13]

It's just another pathetically amateurish effort from this lazy wage-slave who quite obviously resents his miserable life because he is stuck in a dead-end job working for this Mickey-Mouse outfit masquerading as an "English newspaper." The guy can barely write a coherent clause in English, and even when he learns a new vocabulary word like "lamented", he can't apply it in the correct context. He's just a sad individual who's well aware that he's already lost big-time in the game of life, and so he's got an ax to grind. But he still can't win, ever. And you just know he thinks about his whole sorry situation every time he lights up one of his thin cigs or takes a swig of soju after he finally gets off work late at night, right before heading home once again to a wife who keeps nagging him because they're behind on the mortgage payment and he can't ever seem to make enough money for them to live a decent life.

Anyway, all this joke of a "reporter" did for this article, once again, was to slap together some statistics that he pulled off a website and then make one phone call, during which he interviewed some official who basically told him, "What the hell do you think we're supposed to do, dumbass - barge into someone's home and start ransacking the place because some loser like you has reported that there might be a 'foreigner' hiding under the bed?" And by the way, have you ever noticed, too, that he almost never seems to interview any of these "foreigners" he keeps going on about? Could that be because he's incapable of speaking English? And could that be yet another reason why he desperately keeps trying (and failing) to get "the foreigner"?

It's not too hard to figure out what this guy is all about. And perhaps the best part of the whole story is that even he had to acknowledge in his own "article" that the number of "foreigners" who have been nailed for "illegal tutoring" (presumably he means this year) currently stands at zero
.

[Captain Corea]

[vaticanhotline]

I'm curious as to exactly what audience the Korea Times is supposed to serve.

[mc_jc]

Do we miss Jon Huer now?
j/k


I believe that if this article was written by someone within the expat community with first-hand knowledge as to why the crackdown on illegal private teaching is ineffective, then the article might hold some weight.

[Dimitris Stylianos]

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=176789