Korean netizens are a tad upset after a photo of a young English teacher with his students juxtaposed with a photo of the same teacher at a club in the embrace of three Asian — possibly Korean — women found their way onto the Internet.
Korea’s diligent netizens found the photos and posted them on Daum [...]
John Kennedy of Globalvoicesonline.org has posted interesting look at a Chinese exchange troll, allegedly living here in Korea, who claims that Koreans are now persecuting Chinese students — the same ones who were only trying to protect the “sacred flame” (sure). While this poster’s grasp on reality is blatantly distorted, some of the Chinese [...]
As reported in two Chosun Ilbo articles, Koreans may be “going overboard” with mad cow disease. “PD Diary”, the famous MBC current affairs program, has claimed that 94 percent of Koreans have a “special” gene that makes them more susceptible to getting Mad Cow Disease vs. regular Americans or Britons (Canucks, Kiwis and Aussies were, [...]
The Foreign Ministry says it will tighten entry visa regulations for Chinese students entering Korea:
“We are going to talk with the related authorities over steps to toughen the issuance of entry visas for Chinese students and other Chinese people,” said Moon Tae-young, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The tough stance comes [...]
If you’re bored of the Seoul torch relay violence stories, skip this post. If not, read on. If you’re a C-borg linking in, be forewarned: you won’t like what you’re about to read.
Chinese netizens aren’t too pleased to hear that the Korean government plans to arrest and deport violent Chinese demonstrators who [...]
The Hankyoreh talked with Chinese students about Sunday’s ugliness, and found that while most expressed regret about the violence, they also felt they were being unfairly singled out:
Concerning the violent situation that took place during the Olympic torch relay on April 27, Chinese students and other Chinese generally expressed “regret.” But they also protested that [...]
April 30, 2008 – 10:17 am
The fallout from the Chinese student riot continues.
The Chinese ambassador to Seoul offered as close to an apology as one would expect in this situation (AP):
China’s ambassador to Seoul, Ning Fukui, said he regretted the “extreme behavior” of the Chinese protesters and offered sympathy to wounded South Koreans, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said.
If Beijing [...]
Oddly, the government has not been amused with gangs of punky young foreigners running riot in the heart of the national capital — the government has decided to deal with the rioters in stern fashion, including deportations.
In a Cabinet meeting today, Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said, “As the pride of our citizens has been hurt [...]
Korean news photos of the torch relay are circulating on Chinese news forums and blogs. The reaction is mostly patriotic chest-thumping over the sea of red in Seoul and indignation at the pro-Tibet and NK human rights protesters for disrupting the relay. Some commenters are furious at the Korean media’s “distorted reporting.” [...]
Civic groups are accusing the Chinese embassy of organizing the Chinese protesters that ran riot in Seoul on Sunday, reports YTN.
In particular, the embassy is accused of sending text messages, letters and making phone calls to Chinese students, asking them to participate.
Chinese students who participated, however, deny this, claiming they got involved through overseas student [...]
The Foreign Ministry gave the Chinese ambassador to Seoul as close to a dressing down as the Foreign Ministry is prepared to give the Chinese, expressing “strong regret” about Chinese youth running riot in Seoul yesterday.
The Chinese ambassador, for his part, expressed his regret and condolences over the reporter and cop that got hurt by [...]
April 28, 2008 – 11:24 am
Sorry, Joshua, I just couldn’t resist:
From Yonhap.
Oh, and if the hapless Americans/Canadians who got assaulted by the Chinese yesterday are reading this, your plight was reported in the very right-wing Korean online paper FreeZone, which, if you’re anything like the pro-Tibet people I knew in the States, is probably the last place you wanted your [...]
More stuff along the same lines of what Sonagi and Elgin posted — our Chinese friends got a bit rough yesterday, scaring and otherwise pissing off a good many Koreans.
First, there were the Chinese throwing water bottles, sticks and stones at activists from a North Korean refugee rights group at Olympic Park. One reporter working [...]
Police have busted six foreign English teachers employed at famous language hagwon for smoking pot.
Seoul Police announced yesterday that they’d detained a 40-year-old illegal alien from Ghana and booked (without detention) a 31-year-old Korean hagwon instructor by the name of Lee for drug law violations. They also booked six foreign teachers — including a 30-year-old [...]
The East is red according to China’s Xinhua news agency. A photo essay on the Olympic torch relay in Seoul is filled with images of flag-waving patriots and even a Sinophile laowai. Looks like the Chinese government planned ahead and shipped a container full of 五星红旗 (five star red flag) of all sizes [...]
April 16, 2008 – 11:32 pm
I swear to God, you can’t make up stuff like this. It’s like living in an irony-free zone sometimes.
In the first episode of season 2 of CGV TV’s “Sexy Mong” series (think Korean adult comedy meets Charlie’s Angels), the Sexi Mong girls — including Djamilya and her continued oral fixation — head to that den [...]
And in the KT, English teacher Steve Schertzer in Busan tells English teachers — and businessmen — to stop Westernizing Koreans. Here’s some of it:
It is no secret that many of the foreign English teachers come here with an agenda.
Like the U.S. government, which unabashedly send troops to different nations to spread democracy, many native [...]
I did not think this would really be the case but it seems the Chinese guys in blue (see here) are actually Chinese Paramilitary and they will be coming to Seoul, with the Olympic torch, after all. Apparently even the chairman of the London 2012 Olympic games described these guys as “thugs”. Wonderful [...]
First you have this little opinion piece in the KT from an English teacher upset about the media running sensational stories about “foreigners” (read: English teachers) engaging in mischief. I found this line particularly amusing:
Such generalized, judgmental stories are causing ordinary people to have unwarranted prejudicial assumptions regarding the foreign guests of Korea. Such stories [...]
At the end of an almost completely unrelated piece in the Hanguk Ilbo, I noticed a blurb that police planned to launch a 70-day crackdown — starting today (April 1) on brokers trading in unqualified foreign teachers. Which means I suspect more than a few teachers will get netted in the process.
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