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[Real Reality]

Did you watch the program focusing on foreigners on Saturday night on SBS at 10:55-11:55? What did you think?

[ulsanchris]

theres a thread about this in the job discussion forum

[cellphone]

Goebbles would have been proud the way the announcer grimmed into the camera and several times over said "Oori" (You and me/we) so as to penetrate the feelings of the viewer.

[stalinsdad]

An absolute disgrace!!!

The reporting was so one-sided and inaccurate to boot.

It was just made up of people with an obvious axe to grind.

You had the Kyopo from Guam(is that a real university?) complaining about whites calling him chinks etc, maybe he has a vendetta?

The thrown away Korean wife.(well we all know how Korean women get their revenge).

The Canadian wannabe idiot(he works 6 hours a week and takes home 3 million?).

If it pays that well I might take up privates!!

The poor filippino chap, beaten over the head. ( I presume to make us whites seem even more angmarish)

The dreaded M word mentioned at every opportunity(marijuana).

I would personally welcome all foreigners having drug testing + a notorised degree from the Korean Embassy from their original country + a degree with some relevence to English!!!!

I have nothing to hide but the few????

Obviously do.

If this nationalistic bollocks helps separate the chaff from the wheat-bring it on.

[cellphone]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Fine. So long as we drug test every Korean national entering our country. Turnabout is fair play.

[stalinsdad]

Very valid points cell and the other.

I'm starting to judge whether I should hang around much longer.

It was funny how the Directors etc were completely let off!!!!

I have worked at a Adult Education Centre, and I was discriminated against because I wouldn't go out pissing it up with students(ajuma).

It seems they want you to misbehave but just don't get caught!!!!

I'm coming to the conclusion that being a serious teacher who cares is not compatible with Korea????

[JongnoGuru]

[Derrek]

My student said that the report painted the American teachers as being the illegal ones.

[weatherman]

[jaganath69]

[hadeshorn]

What I couldnt believe was when they did the re-creations. Who was the fucking idiot who decided to play the role of the foreigner?

"Ok, you play the role of the bad foreigner that gets students drunk and sleeps with them"

"Um, ok then, no problem"

I would love to find that white haired pretty boy and punch him.

But who was that stupid Canadian who bragged about being illegal? Stay under the freaking radar! People who were interviewed on that program just wanted to brag how smart they are at outwitting the Koreans.

Also bringing the cameras along on that Marijuana bust. Oh my god talk about biased journalism.

Also how clueless could that guy be, "Oh im Canadian smoking weed in Korea, Its no big deal. I will be fine"

I was livid after seeing that show. It doesnt concern me that much because im not an English Teacher. But I wished Koreans would stop the whole victim syndrome that they love to impose on themselves.

[Cymro]

From the translations I was getting from a Korean friend, the show seemingly highlighted that Koreans are overly respectful of white foreigners while too discriminatory against non-white non-Koreans.

I agree that us whities are hired by English language institutes much too easily, which is quite rightly being exposed lately. But I haven't seen nor heard any mention of the cause of the problem.

Good, adequately-qualified native English speakers aren't likely to choose to work at an institute that doesn't have a decent long-term curriculum with goals and objectives in terms of the students' progress and they're not likely to work for employers who treat them so incredibly bad as is too commonly the case in this country.

I think language institutes (���) should be brought, and kept, inline by the Ministry of Education, or some other government body.

The Ministry of Justice's Immigration Bureau has failed to check the validity of the original degree certificates that every E-2 visa application is meant to include and the number of unanswered questions on their web-site is evidence that they're inadequately staffed or just don't care about doing their job.

While Korea's immigration system is letting many people into the country to teach when they shouldn't be, it's also forcing many good teachers to go through hell at their workplaces because they can't leave.

In Japan, teachers' visas don't restrict them to specific employers and this allows them to easily walk out on an employer who treats them unfairly. The result is that you get good employers.

Good employers generally get good workers. Bad employers just get any worker they can, because they can't keep onto the good ones.

My friend told me that a guy on that SBS show said only 5% of foreigners in Korea were good. That's not true.

5% of Korea's English language institute directors are good employers? I'd believe that.

[Derrek]

[Blind Willie]