Comments on: Foreigners Break 1 Million Mark

By: Koreans Use Drugs More than Foreigners, But Canucks Still Potheads | The Marmot's Hole

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:59:22 +0000

[...] much less likely to abuse drugs than locals. But by “foreigners” (of which there were 1,000,254 as of August 2007), we’re including 441,334 Chinese, 64,646 Vietnamese, 50,264 Filipinos and 42,792 Thais. And [...]

By: 1,000,000 Outsiders on the Inside : Socius in Daejeon

1,000,000 Outsiders on the Inside : Socius in Daejeon — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:54:10 +0000

[...] Robert Koehler over at the Marmot’s Hole sums it all up for you. [...]

By: Maddlew

Maddlew — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:04:07 +0000

That would be totally cool. Give California back to Mexico. Roads slowly crumbling to dust. The Drogistas having a bigger border in which to smuggle their wares. All the rich folk, including Arnold and Maria cutting it for Nevada in the middle of the night. All the Mexicans now living in the state going, “Damn esse, now I gotta move to Arizona?”

By: austin

austin — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:01:56 +0000

Herod, my Korean sucks, but my missus translated the regulation, and that’s what she said. A charming lady at CitiBank was kind enough to provide me with a photocopy of the regulation. Will try to post the regulation, currently reorganizing my office. You may wish to go into CitiBank and try yourself.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:37:05 +0000

You’ve been banned, Katz.

I have to say, Katz, of all the trolls I’ve seen here in the four years I’ve run this blog, you are by far the biggest waste of carbon.

By: Katz

Katz — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:28:35 +0000

“You are an idiot.”

Don’t start flaming me. I don’t even have to mention your name, moron.

By: Herod

Herod — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:21:15 +0000

austin:
You’re serious? Even a Korean passport holder can’t get a loan from Citibank unless he’s Korean race? How do they express that in their regs? I’m curious.

By: wjk

wjk — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:03:51 +0000

The number of foreigners

The quote block above sounds very similar to any given country’s criteria for citizenship, and a pretty lenient one at that. Almost like the US citizenship criteria, except US citizenship can be gained without any special talents. It’s called birth. I believe countries like Ireland allowed this too, and they stopped when Africans started coming to Ireland in the 2000s. Probably birth doesn’t equal citizenship in the ROK.

Immigrating to Korea for marriage tripled from 34,710 in 2002 to 104,749 this year. The number of permanent residents, meanwhile, more than doubled during the same period, going from 6,022 to 15,567.

Yonhap clears up its definitions — a “marriage immigrant” is, oddly enough, a resident foreigner who was married or is currently married to a Korean national, while permanent residence is granted to (drum roll, please) a) fat-cat foreigners who invest over US$2 million into the country or have lived here for over three years while investing US$500,000; b) doctorate holders in certain advanced industrial fields (like IT) who satisfy certain set conditions; c) foreigners who have performed meritorious deeds in the fields of science, education, culture and sports (I don’t think blogging counts); d) a foreign spouse, married to a Korean, who has resided here for over two years; e) long-term residents who have been here for over five years and satisfy certain set conditions.

No, I don’t know what those conditions are.

Many US citizens got their citizenship by birth. Not because their parents were born in the US, but because they were simply born on US soil.

I know whitey is up in arms about this, but many whiteys also got theirs by birth.

Whitey took a chunk of land from Mexico by a bloodier war than Iraq.

You could give California and Texas to Mexico and I think whitey will stop seeing illegal immigration from the south.

From my understanding, PeMex is owned by majority shareholders in Wall Street.

tsk tsk tsk.

It’s just something the US will have to deal with for ages.

Only to be solved when Mexico becomes comparable to the US in income, in all social levels. Mexicans themselves treat the Native American population much worser than the ones with more white blood.

Whitey made this problem. Deal with it.

By: sumo294

sumo294 — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:23:41 +0000

Starting from downtown Incheon, there are apartment slums that extend all the way right up to Kari-Bong-Dong. It is a sea of human misery with a sizable Chinese Korean contingent. Korean faces that were not quite right with the other poor ass locals. Messed up orthodontics, weaker bone structure, heads too big in proportion to body mass and their body language meant they were not Korean Korean. It was also strange that the crowd subconsciously parted to allow me an easier avenue in which to walk, as if they could tell by looking out of the sides of their eyes that I was someone of an outside consequence. I know that they were better off than whatever centralized nation state they hailed from, but I still get choked up thinking about those miserable mole-like people in an unnoteworthy ghetto in a no consequence part of Korea’s urban landscape.

By: globalvillageidiot

globalvillageidiot — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:48:04 +0000

“This is the result of having only ugly and despicable races around Korea, specially a cockroach nest next to us. It’s a misfortune for my country geographically speaking.

F*cking parasites. I f*cking doubt these ugly races has any maturity to understand or respect Korea’s people except to satiate their own selfishness.”

You are an idiot.