A round-up of recent less favourable coverage.
First, the Metropolitician’s account of his 20 November arrest for being harrassed by a local racist is essential reading. He follows it up on 16 December with an equally explosive post with the simple warning message addressed to any foreigner thinking of coming to Korea to live and teach.
Don’t. Go to Japan or China instead.
Other articles:
Brian Deutsch in a 17 December article summarises some of the recent anti-foreign teacher coverage, in a post with a title too good not to re-use, while over at A Year in Mokpo another teacher provides a useful summary of racism and xenophobia in Korea. In a country which the local papers think is multiracial.
Links (including some not terribly relevant ones which I’ve been storing up for a while I don’t want to lose)
- Boycott Korea? - Brian in Jeollanam-do, 17 Dec 2007
- Racism and Xenophobia, A Year in Mokpo, 2 Nov 2007
- I Got Arrested for Calling the Police, Scribblings of the Metropolitician, 21 Nov 2007
- Foreigners - Don’t come to Korea! Choose Japan or China! Scribblings of the Metropolitician, 16 Dec 2007
- Embassies cautious in helping teachers with background checks, Korea Herald, 17 Dec 2007
- Why Korea should embrace multi-culturalism, Chosun, 11 Dec 2007
- Korea turning into a multiracial society, Korea.net, 25 Oct 2007
- Growing foreign population turns Korea into multiracial society, Yonhap, 25 Oct 2007
- Why Do Vietnamese Women Marry Korean Farmers? Chosun, 27 Mar 2007
- What Koreans Really Think About Ethnic Homogeneity, Chosun, 6 Sept 2007
- UN Concern at ‘Ethnocentric’ Korea, Chosun, 20 Aug 2007
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