Comments on: Koreans, Latinos Working Together to Build a Better Workplace http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/ Korea... in Blog Format Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:26:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Netizen Kim http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/#comment-112340 Netizen Kim Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:09:28 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/#comment-112340 Mexicans, tonight we dine...in San Diego. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qKD-Ph7ds Taco Bell's fare baffles Mexicans http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003937804_tacobell100.html Mexicans, tonight we dine…in San Diego.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qKD-Ph7ds

Taco Bell’s fare baffles Mexicans
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ll100.html

]]> By: setnaffa http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/#comment-112326 setnaffa Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:12:35 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/#comment-112326 I've been to Faifax (actually stayed at the Residence Inn in Vienna) and that very store (roughly end of January, beginning of February). Maybe I just picked the wrong time; but during the hour we were shopping, we saw few non-Koreans and no non-Korean employees... Mind you, I was there at about 8-9PM; but there wasn't a lot of what one might call "diversity"... Hmmm... Maybe that was during the time when the "document-challenged guest-workers" were at their Winter homes? I’ve been to Faifax (actually stayed at the Residence Inn in Vienna) and that very store (roughly end of January, beginning of February). Maybe I just picked the wrong time; but during the hour we were shopping, we saw few non-Koreans and no non-Korean employees…

Mind you, I was there at about 8-9PM; but there wasn’t a lot of what one might call “diversity”…

Hmmm… Maybe that was during the time when the “document-challenged guest-workers” were at their Winter homes?

]]> By: WangKon936 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/#comment-112321 WangKon936 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:56:31 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/#comment-112321 Yep, we Koreans in LA use tons of Latino labor. It's cheap and they work hard. Also, Korean employers tend to be less concerned with "legal status." You'd be suprised how many of them know fluent Korean too... It's gotten to the point where it doesn't suprise me anymore when they do address me in Korean. Then again, a lot of Koreans do know at least basic Spanish phrases... Yep, we Koreans in LA use tons of Latino labor. It’s cheap and they work hard. Also, Korean employers tend to be less concerned with “legal status.”

You’d be suprised how many of them know fluent Korean too… It’s gotten to the point where it doesn’t suprise me anymore when they do address me in Korean. Then again, a lot of Koreans do know at least basic Spanish phrases…

]]> By: whitey http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/#comment-112317 whitey Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:52:01 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/10/10/koreans-latinos-working-together-to-build-a-better-workplace/#comment-112317 Reminds me of a story from the LA TIMES about five years ago. At the Korean-owned market in Koreatown in L.A. where I shopped, the workers in the produce section were Hispanic men and the cashiers were Korean women. One day a Korean cashier caught a Hispanic co-worker checking her out from the produce section. She went back to helping customers and forgot about it. A short time later, she heard a guy behind her complimenting her in fluent Korean. She turned around to find that it was the same Hispanic guy. Long story short, they dated, got over her father's objections, married, and had a baby. They were the centerpiece of the LA TIMES article, which was on the changing ethnic makeup of the LA workplace, with an focus on Hispanics and Koreans working together. Cute story and cute couple, too. Reminds me of a story from the LA TIMES about five years ago.

At the Korean-owned market in Koreatown in L.A. where I shopped, the workers in the produce section were Hispanic men and the cashiers were Korean women.

One day a Korean cashier caught a Hispanic co-worker checking her out from the produce section. She went back to helping customers and forgot about it. A short time later, she heard a guy behind her complimenting her in fluent Korean. She turned around to find that it was the same Hispanic guy.

Long story short, they dated, got over her father’s objections, married, and had a baby.

They were the centerpiece of the LA TIMES article, which was on the changing ethnic makeup of the LA workplace, with an focus on Hispanics and Koreans working together.

Cute story and cute couple, too.

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