I will be on Gwangju's GFN radio station tomorrow, doing a ten-minute segment on Michael Simning's "City of Light" program sometime between 11:05 and noon. Tomorrow we'll be talking about the discrimination against black and Asian English teachers in Yeosu, the bicycles available to rent along Suncheon's Dongcheon, and whether there's too much English in Korea. You can listen online here, or at 98.7 if you're in the area. Please be gentle.
And those of you who made fun of me for actually being a shy person in real life and on the SeoulPodcast, I'll ask you to, pardon the turn of phrase, understand my unique situation. I spent most of 2008 getting beat up for being, in some peoples' eyes, a Korea hater---you people even voted me the Angriest Korea Blogger last year---for some of the stuff I was writing on my blog and in the local papers. It's only natural that I'd swing a little in the opposite direction to convince people that I'm a normal human being.
2 comments:
Don't talk about that racial crap.
To bring up some racial issues in some podunk area where no one cares about is ridiculous.
Shouldn't you fry bigger fish?
Here Koreans have done quite a job to get away from racism on the whole and you are going to single out one miniscule case in the middle of nowhere.
Used to be that even NZ, SA, and Aussies had trouble getting jobs, then it was Philipinos. Now, it is easier (then say 5-10 years ago) all over the country for all these people. Forget Yeosu.
If they can't get a job there, go somewhere else. Korea is a pretty big country with a lot of holes to fill, not just Yeosu.
Absolutevyl, your comment is not particularly helpful.
Also, you used "then" when you obviously meant "than".
Discrimination and poor grammar should be fought case by case, city by city, comment by comment.
-Dave
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