English Teacher Denied Job Interview After Korean Employer Finds Out He Is Black
Here is another article that shows how discrimination against foreign English teachers in Korea is quite common:
Sean Jones was on his way for a job interview last week in Seoul and received a disturbing text message that reads “Hey Sean. Sorry they just told me they actually want a white teacher.”
“I was on my way to the interview when I received a text message from my recruiter stating that they only want a white teacher,” Sean told The Korea Observer.
“Regardless of my two plus years of experience, TEFL certification, great references and the ability to speak intermediate Korean, I was turned down before even given an opportunity to speak with them.”
To add insult to injury, the 30-year-old American from Oklahoma experienced racial discrimination again two days after the incident.
This time he received a facebook message that reads, “I am sorry. I just found out today that my school is one of ones that won’t hire black people.” [Korea Observer]
You can read more at the link, but to show that discrimination in Korea isn’t always about skin color either in the past people have been denied English teaching jobs due to accents and even perceptions of heavy drinking.
Korean news showing the riots in Ferguson didn’t help the African-American stereotyping.
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Korean news showing the riots in Ferguson didn’t help the African-American stereotyping”Korean news showingthe riots in Ferguson didn’t help the African-American stereotyping.Keeping with the theme of bad cops, here is a Korean cop discriminating against an English(“foreign”) teacher…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLj7VlVa8PE
The cops never asked the English teacher his side of the story. Only one side counts in S. Korea, the side of the Koreans vs. foreigner(s). And the foreigners property be damned.
I hope that guy wasn’t an English teacher.
Did you hear the way he talked? He sounded very geeky and spazzy… maybe slightly retarded. Poor guy.
He also had very weird intonation with odd phrasing… sounding more like Konglish than English.
…for example…
…the simple present tense, “That’s why I videotape him,” which seems to indicate it is a common occurrence…
…instead of the present continuous, “That’s why I am videotaping him,” as in something happening at the moment.
He probably didn’t even understand why he was fired… and then didn’t understand why he couldn’t just keep living in the apartment belonging to the company he no longer worked for.
That Korean guy looked familiar, though. There was some dumbazz picketing his hogwon and he made a video of the guy and posted it on the internet along with his selfie commentary.
I wonder if it is the same guy… as that guy looked as spazzy as this guy sounds.
Tbone, if you find any more of these Korea’s Funniest Foreign Dumbazzes videos, please post links… as they are very amusing.
CH, why don’t you use your superhuman hacking skills to hunt him down if his English so disheartens you. Then you can ask why he used this/that form of English⊙_◎(Crazy).
Rather, I see you’re just ignoring the point of this post. I reasonably contributed and you attacked what appears to be the innocent going off on some tangent…”English teacher is bad” just like the Korean media. Aren’t soldiers/your peers/coworkers suppose to defend S. Korea but so often go out past curfew, get drunk, do drugs, shoot BB guns, attempt to kill S. Koreans and sometimes run them over with war equipment, order them where/where not to park their cars, sexually assault/rape S. Korean girls, women, and grandmothers? You really should shut your pie hole. You hang with these guys and I’m sure you have partaken at one time or another/STILL DO, you sickazz/sorryazz punk face.
I think you’re just here to defend S. Korean discrimination etc…you are the person below as you said yourself, a disgrace to America.
“Anybody who rationalizes, justifies, accepts, promotes, or makes excuses for this(S. Korean Cop Discrimination Behavior) or the people who engage in it, speaks more about themselves than anything else.”
You said it dumbazz༼ ಠ益ಠ ༽(Troll), not me!!!
“run them over with war equipment”
And with that you affirm the assertion that you are garbage, lower than Tom even.
Tbone, you were trespassing in his property. He has the right to ask you to leave his house, and you resisted, then you trashed the place and refused to leave. It looks like you were the one breaking the law. This is South Korea, not America. Property owners have the right to protect their property, not like in America where they protect squatters who squat in rented places for months and months without paying rent, waiting for court papers to be served, in the meanwhile the property is trashed. Speak Korean to the police, don’t expect him to understand what you were rambling about. What if a Korean in America, speaks to the cop in Korean then expect him to understand a foreign language, and when he doesn’t, the Korean claims the American cops don’t listen to foreigner’s side of the story? You would say that Korean is a spoilt piece of sh*t, who does he think he is, speaking Korean to an American cop that way in America? It’s the same thing in Korea. Now if you want to keep a job in Korea, you need to take a shower, cut your hair, stop smoking weeds, and actually show up in classes sober.
That’s two in a row for Tom.
If he can stick to speaking the truth while avoiding the stupidity, might get a sympathetic audience.
I feel he has some honest observation in him… it would be a pleasure to see more.
Let’s see if Tom can go for THREE clever observations in a row.
I’m wondering if we have a new Tom assigned to ROK Drop… The writing style is a bit different, word choice and general demeanor. I remember when Tom clearly had a substitute filling in for him.
As for Tbone, it’s the same twit who came to this site with his videos looking for sympathy when he was fired for poor performance. Don’t bother replying, Tbone. I never read your drivel. As soon as I see your name, I just give the scroll dial a flick and go on to the next poster.