Korean Job Discussion Forums

[ghostrider]

[KimchiNinja]

I just see it as market forces at work.

* Chinese come here to make more money.
* Koreans hire Chinese to pay less money.
* Koreans hire Westerners to give their business legitimacy.
* Westerners come here to (deleted so my post doesn't get banned).

That doesn't mean they specifically want to know these people, it's just a mutually beneficial business arrangement. If the counterparty doesn't find it beneficial they can always leave and go back home.

[andrewchon]

Vous �te une Friedman-ist. Salute la libert� du choix!

[Gorf]

Having seen Korean adults make fun of Chinese people by doing the slanty eyes thing with their fingers, I can say that it is probably telling of the lack of cultural respect or understanding that Korea has that causes them to act this way. They're just xenophobic, and not even classy enough to at least fake that they're accepting of diversity.

[DejaVu]

I only know a few Koreans with Chinese friends but they are considered outcasts in Korea.

The Japanese embassy is now warning its citizens to cancel trips to Korea due to burning things at the consulates, throwing dirt, etc.

This is all so tiring.

I'm so happy I'm white in this country...

[Dodge7]

[nautilus]

[Unposter]

A properly worded civil rights act (for Korea) is not a bad idea if it can be done.

If two people are doing the same job but receiving different pay from the same employer and the only reason is ethnicity, I would say that is a preatty legitimate complaint.

A lack of socialization, to me, is not a legitimate complaint. When people are friends, they are friends; you cannot legislate that. Though, I guess it could be discussed in the media.

You shouldn't just say it is market forces. Market forces by their very nature are not human. It takes humans to make the effects of market forces human.

Believe it or not, Korea has already come a long way in terms of embracing the fact that they are becoming a multi-cultural society. Does it have some ways to go? From my perspective, yes, but also from my perspective it is moving in the right direction. These things take time. The fact that Koreans are openly talking about these issues is a sign of how far they have come.

And, the West is no paragon of virtue. It has been a long history of cultural conflict and people are still a little uncertain of what we really should do. I am sure most, if not all, of us have at one time had bad thoughts about people who are different than us. We still need an orderly and fair society. So, we need laws to reflect this need. If Koreans haven't already gotten there, they will.

Koreans, deep down, are human beings, the same as the rest of us. They may have had a different history and different experiences than you and me, but they really are no different.

It only takes one Romeo and Juliet to start the ball rolling but soon most people will realize it really ain't no big thing.

[andrewchon]

Koreans look down on Chinese for 2000 years of tyrany and subjugation by the Chinese. Every year Korea had to send men (women) and materials to China. China didn't need any but demanded tribute anyway. Then they sent back Chinese 'culture' as gift. Does this remind you of Soviet Union and its Eastern European satelites? Stalin demonstrated the principle this way. He got a chicken and plucked out all its feathers. Did the chicken run away? No, it cowered by Stalin's feet. That's what China's been doing for 2000 years to Korea. It'll tak more than a legislation for Korea to change their opinion of the Chinese.

[waynehead]

I think this is what the Chinese drink delivery lady was asking me about in the elevator this morning, something about comparing Koreans and Chinese people. I just mumbled something in my awful Korean about not having met many Chinese people and waited for the first floor to come.

[fermentation]

[DejaVu]

[young_clinton]

[Kepler]

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