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Brief History of Scapegoating Foreign ESL Teachers in Korea
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King Baeksu



Joined: 22 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:24 pm    Post subject: Brief History of Scapegoating Foreign ESL Teachers in Korea Reply with quote

Here's an interesting blog post written by a Canadian friend of mine that may be of interest to many people who use this forum:

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2007/09/brief-history-of-scapegoating-english.html

I must say that it feels great to be amongst such select company!
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itaewonguy



Joined: 25 Mar 2003

PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

interesting read..
even watched the videos! hahaahah what a joke!!!

I really wish foreign TV journalists were anti Korean as much as Koreans are ANTI everything not Korean and everyone not Korean...
Let�s broadcast biased shows like Koreans do...

Sure what was broadcasted here is true! SO WHAT!!
30.000 teachers and 80 were busted for SMOKING drugs!
That�s smoking!! Not dealing! Not whoring! Not gang banging!
Minding their own business smoking in their own homes!

Did you guys see the real law passed on TV the other night!
Something like 100.000 Korean students are going abroad every year to study
And their have been to many crimes committed by these UHAK students.
RAPE being the highest, drugs, gangs, MURDER! Etc...
So the Korean government has not passed a law where the PARENTS have to
Take responsibility for their actions! So if their kids do the crime!
The dad does the time!! Hahahahha
To many mothers sending their bad mannered trouble maker kids abroad and there kids are hurting the Korean image!

The video said ESL teachers are hunters! They go out looking for girls! They get girls drunk and offer them English lessons in exchange for sex! Hahahahaha WHATEVER!
Isn�t that what Koreans do?? Jesus!! Ever been drinking in Korea and seen Koreans out for women!?? HAHHAHAAAH MONGORI!!! Hahahahahaah what a joke network!!!

UGLY KOREANS ABROAD! UHAK!
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200511/200511150021.html


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SuperHero



Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was just coming to post the link to this...

interesting and very very very long read.
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!

PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very interesting and in depth look at Korean journalism in relation to the evil foreign teacher...
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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep

PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



*gasp!* I'm putting on double locks and making sure my vaccinations are up to date.
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jaganath69



Joined: 17 Jul 2003

PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd love to follow Korean journalists when they holiday abroad and expose their behavior.
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crusher_of_heads



Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!

PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you know that only Koreans use sprouts when preparing dishes? One of the Korean teachers told me that-it just must be true.
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Julius



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Narcotic-related arrests of foreigners which stood at 14 in 1995, increased by 64.3 percent to 23 last year


Just how desperate for a story are these idiots?
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SuperFly



Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse

PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Apparently, English teachers commit other crimes as well, as the Korea Times reported on January 11, 1997:

A patrolman shot an American English tutor who was allegedly resisting him after stabbing one of his American colleagues while intoxicated early yesterday morning in [Seongnam]. [The teacher, who teaches] English at Pagoda Junior Institute, was shot in the left thigh and has been treated at Songnam Hospital. He is suspected of stabbing one of his fellow English instructors (24), three times in the face during a quarrel that arose while they were drinking together at his house. [...] A police officer said that the patrolman repeatedly ordered Rossi to stop, but he continued to resist and would not put down his knife, and the cop shot him after firing two blank shots.



This story, according to Rossi back then, and nowadays, is completely false. The story happened quite differently in fact, the way Rossi reported it to us on a website back then.

His "roomate" actually got drunk with him and his school director, the newbie roomate cut himself on some broken glass that he actually created himself because he was drunk and out of control....then went fell asleep in his room. The Korean cop was called to the scene because of a reason I can't remember now...then the assumed that Rossi actually had something to do with it...and shot him.

There used to be a site where people posted their crazy Korea stories back in 1997, I think the site is long gone now but it was interesting that it was in fact Rossi who started the "Expat in Korea" website about three or four years ago. His handle was PK.
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twg



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Julius wrote:
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Narcotic-related arrests of foreigners which stood at 14 in 1995, increased by 64.3 percent to 23 last year


Just how desperate for a story are these idiots?

Race baiting is an easy and time-honored tradition for journalists everywhere.
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jaganath69



Joined: 17 Jul 2003

PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

twg wrote:
Julius wrote:
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Narcotic-related arrests of foreigners which stood at 14 in 1995, increased by 64.3 percent to 23 last year


Just how desperate for a story are these idiots?

Race baiting is an easy and time-honored tradition for journalists everywhere.


Difference being that in western countries there is usually someone to call them on it. That does not appear to be the case in KKKorea.
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hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den

PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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A group calling themselves the American English Teachers Attacking Corrupt Koreans (AETACK) have sent random inflammatory anti-Korean electronic mail to subscribers on the Internet. In one poison missive sent to members of America On Line entitled"No Visa Waiver For Korea," the message said "(We) feel that Korea does not deserve this privilege because of its behavior toward us and other foreign workers," adding that "the Korean economy is sinking into debt oblivion so they don't have much money to spend...there is also the threat of opening the door to Korean Mafia-style criminals who are acknowledged to be a problem by the FBI
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Ah, AETACK, he used to post a bunch back in the old days, he was a work Very Happy
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indytrucks



Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf

PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jaganath69 wrote:
That does not appear to be the case in KKKorea.


You're coming perilously close to emulating another long departed poster (No Thanks!) with phrases like that. I understand your frustration, but c'mon man. You're a bigger bloke than that. I know Mourhino left and everything, but still ...
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jaganath69



Joined: 17 Jul 2003

PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

indytrucks wrote:
jaganath69 wrote:
That does not appear to be the case in KKKorea.


You're coming perilously close to emulating another long departed poster (No Thanks!) with phrases like that. I understand your frustration, but c'mon man. You're a bigger bloke than that. I know Mourhino left and everything, but still ...


Dunno who you are referring to (as in the departed poster) but yeah, it's a rainy day and I've f*ck-all to do.
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Corky



Joined: 06 Jan 2004

PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wild guess....I think he's referring to Joe Thanks



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