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[Real Reality]

Job Requirements
- Should speak fluent English and Korean.
- Should deal with OA software, such as MS office and Hangul
- Candidates with experience in secretarial / administrative works are preferred.
- B/A, B/S or higher degrees are required.
- Korean-American or Korean

Would this be okay in Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, or the United States?

[buddy bradley]

Well, it wouldn't be okay in South Africa. Affirmative action ensures that Koreans will not be hired so long as there is a black person applying for the job.

[shawner88]

Hasn't been a problem for me.

[Gord]

[fidel]

[Derrek]

[Saxiif]

Well I see plenty of ads that only want North Americans or only females and I'm sure that if I sent out identical sets of resumes with a white guy photo attached to one stack and a black guy photo attached to another stack I'd get VASTLY more responces from the stack with the white guy photo. The job market here is pretty seeped in racism.

[sadsac]

In Australia you would apply for an exemption under the EEO legislation and if your reasoning was sound, you would be granted an exemption. Unless you can quote it, it is unlikely that any paper or employment service would run that ad.

[Skippy]

They should have skipped the Korean-American or Korean only line.
I mean you could definitly get rid of 99.9% percent of the white/black/other (horrible people not korean) folk with the first line.

[kangnamdragon]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Real Reality]

TheUrbanMyth,

This is a large, world-class Korean university (24,045 students and 980 full time faculty). So, do large, world-class universities from Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, or the United States seek employees based upon ethnicity AND visa requirements?

REPUBLIC OF KOREA PRESENTS REPORTS TO Committee Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Introducing the reports of the Republic of Korea, Eui-yong Chung, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Head of the delegation, said there had been significant improvements in the field of human rights in the Republic of Korea over the past several years. Respect for human rights was a cornerstone of domestic as well as foreign policies, and the Government had gone about implementing various reform measures to this end. There could be no place for the mistreatment or prejudice of persons according to race, colour, descent or ethnic origin in this world. However, such prejudice still persisted in many forms, and the struggle to eradicate discrimination needed to be continued as a high priority with a steadfast commitment by the Government and people of Korea.
Comite pour l'elimination
de la discrimination raciale
63eme session
11 aout 2003
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/69E0E3E3730CE258C1256D7F00514FCA?opendocument

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination - CERD
Ratified: 5 December 1978.
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - CEDAW
Ratified: 27 December 1984.
http://www.right-to-education.org/content/rights_and_remedies/korea_s.html

The term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

States Parties condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among all races, and, to this end:

(a) Each State Party undertakes to engage in no act or practice of racial discrimination against persons, groups of persons or institutions and to ensure that all public authorities and public institutions, national and local, shall act in conformity with this obligation.
http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/10.shtml

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Real Reality]

Korean-American or Korean need only apply.

What about a Korean-Australian who is fluent in Korean and English?
What about a Korean-Canadian who is fluent in Korean and English?
What about a Korean-Chinese who is fluent in English, Chinese, and Korean?

There could be no place for the mistreatment or prejudice of persons according to race, colour, descent or ethnic origin in this world.

[phaedrus]