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[Real Reality]

Looks Are Important for Job Seekers
The survey also looked at negative first impressions.
For male candidates,
1. bushy beard (31.3 percent),
2. the smell of alcohol and cigarettes (25.9 percent),
3. a peculiar hairstyle (23.5 percent),
4. strong cologne (9.9 percent) and
5. ostentatious clothing (4.9 percent).

For female candidates
1. smell of alcohol and cigarettes (38.3 percent),
2. thick makeup (30.0 percent),
3. extravagant clothing (16.9 percent),
4. strong perfume (7.0 percent) and
5. a peculiar hairstyle (3.3 percent).
Digital Chosunilbo (October 5, 2004)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200410/200410050025.html

[Apple Scruff]

In other words, no individuality and no Italians.

[The Man known as The Man]

[just because]

Seriously, most of those 5 could be used for any country except the neard for Islamic ones I suppose.

[kermo]

What about just plain homeliness?
I didn't see that on the list.
There may be hope for me yet...

[Toby]

Sadly, in Korea, Black would probably be the top of that list.

[hellofaniceguy]

Cigarette smoke? A problem? In korea? With korea having just about the highest amount of smokers in the world!!! And alcohol?! Give me a break!
I can't count the times I have gone to work in the morning in korea and smell stinking korean alcohol professors and teachers over the years!
But...something is missing? That stinking kim chee breath! Man...that reaks! And seeps through their pores!

[captain kirk]

Yeah, look respectable, like 'in command, able to lead others by example and with good appearance'.
I can't believe the Korean teacher at work. He smokes between classes and he's a 'speed smoker'. He must be. Dashes out with his pack to the stairwell and back in what I swear is less than a minute. Go guy!

[The King of Kwangju]

Back in the day, I used to do a brisk trade in lightening the photos of blacks and mulattoes for their hogwan applications. Kind of an ESL Underground Railroad.

They always got the job after a little Photoshop kung fu.

[jajdude]

Of course looks matter! Always have and always will! Never mind the country.

[mindmetoo]

The mystery deepens for those, based on RR's legion of negative Korea links, trying to figure out what living hell RR has escaped from and refuses to return to, preferring the hell of Korea to a one way ticket home.

In addition to a city or town where suicide rates are higher than Korea, men bag more prostitutes than Korean men, where more people want to move away from than Korea, where 22 year olds with BAs earn starting wages of less than $40,000 a year, we must now add it's a city or town where mountain men seem to have no problem getting office jobs.