Comments on: Run! Foreigners!

By: drbedroom

drbedroom — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:46:55 +0000

Is it a crime to love korean women??? drbedroom.com

By: eeyore

eeyore — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:03:50 +0000

Re #9 I agree but I wouldn’t even say resource. I would say prostitute. Take for example teaching at a hagwon:

1. It is believed anyone can do it if you have the right equiptment.
2. That if you do something for pay, you should be willing to do it for free.
3. That if you do agree to do something special for someone, this service should be provided for anyone who is willing to pay.
4. That if you do it 8 hours a day, you should be able to do it for a few more.
5. That being asked on the street, “how much for an hour?” is a reasonable question.
6. That you will be punished for any unhappy clients.
7. When it is all said and done you are there to make the pimp happy, not the john
8. That you are replaceable, by yet another fool tricked into thinking that this time, things will be different.

By: non korean

non korean — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:07:46 +0000

This kind of article has been printed every single year I have been in Korea. There was an awesome article in an editorial written by a foreigner a few years ago showing the foreign crime rate is MUCH lower than the Korean crime rate and that it is foreigners that should be affraid of Koreans.

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:40:58 +0000

Zdunk - I don’t think “resource to be used” is a good statement. How about “foreigners are your partners in success”? Too often English teachers, 3D workers and others are treated as resources to be used and then discarded when done.

By: Zdunk

Zdunk — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:33:01 +0000

For me, this was the funniest part: “the percentage of crimes committed by foreigners increased sharply from 0.66 percent in 2002, to 0.96 percent in July of this year.” Oh my god! 0.66% to 0.96%! Foreigener crime is a raging wave threatening to engulf Korea!

In my MBA class here during a discussion, asked me what advice I would briefly give to improve Korea.

“Just this: Koreans have to start seeing foreigners as a resource to be used, rather than a threat to be controlled”.

By: Kimbob

Kimbob — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:18:50 +0000

They even have books on foreigner crime areas? That’s amazing!

By: Younghusband

Younghusband — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:01:06 +0000

Speaking of scare-mongering…

A few months ago I spotted a Yomiuri Weekly magazine that featured a “Tokyo Crime Map” on the cover. Basically it was a guide for the oh-so-innocent Japanese who may wander into the oh-so-dangerous “foreign” districts of Tokyo.

I was thinking about purchasing the magazine to translate the article when my gaijin friend I was with suggested that I should steal it.
In the end we just took a couple quick snaps of it that you can see if you click the following links:

Gaijin Crime Map: Cover
Gaijin Crime Map: Map

By: Kimbob

Kimbob — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:59:35 +0000

Of course the “foreigner crimes” are rising. What do you expect when there are more foreigners? No mention in the story about that.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:20:16 +0000

About the Korean Robocop, I suppose they could always ask for the tangerine-wielding NKPA females in your previous post.

By: Jing

Jing — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:08:48 +0000

Not on Okinawa… theres another case of a U.S. military rape thats coming to the forefront.