Tea Museum on Jeju Island Accused of Discrimination Against Foreigners

I don’t think this is discrimination because foreigners can attend the museum’s special programs if someone is willing to translate without interfering with the class. It seems like this is much to do about nothing:

Osulloc Tea Museum on Jeju Island (Amorepacific)

A tea museum operated by South Korean cosmetics giant Amorepacific is found to have a rather controversial policy: It says no foreigners are allowed in its guided tours or tea classes because no interpretation services are provided. 

Even if the foreigner is OK with not having an interpreter or has a native Korean speaker to help, the museum is apparently reluctant to accept the guest, warning, “The translation (by another guest) may be restricted if it disturbs other participants of the program.” 

The museum in question – Osulloc Tea Museum – is one of Jeju Island’s most popular tourist spots. 

Opened in September 2001 and located near the scenic Seokwang tea fields in Seogwipo, it is the first tea museum in Korea designed to introduce and promote the nation’s traditional tea culture. As of 2020, more than 15 million people have visited the venue, it says, with some 20-30 percent of those being foreign visitors. 

Korea Herald

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Smokes
Smokes
2 years ago

I was walking around Camp Casey one late night in a more run-down area and I too was prevented from partaking in the services of what appeared to be a tiny tea museum. Da-bang… I think it was called.

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

This secrets of the Team Museum complaint reminded me of a conversation between two officers at Burpleson AFB back in 1964…

Gen. Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

Gp Capt Mandrake: Well, no, I can’t say I have.

Gen. Ripper: Vodka. That’s what they drink, isn’t it? Never water.

Gp Capt Mandrake: Well, I believe that’s what they drink, Jack. Yes.

Gen. Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water and not without good reason.

Gp Capt Mandrake: Yes. I – I doubt quite see what you’re getting at, Jack.

Gen. Ripper: Water. That’s what I’m getting at. Water.

Gen. Ripper: Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth’s surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water – to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand?

Gp Capt Mandrake: [nervously] Yes.

Gen. Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water or rainwater? And only pure grain alcohol?

Gp Capt Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

Gen. Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation – fluoridation of water?

Gp Capt Mandrake: Jack, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.

Gen. Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?

Gp Capt Mandrake: No, I don’t know what it is.

Gen. Ripper: Do you realise that fluoridation – is the most monstrously-conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

Gen. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk… ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream.

Gp Capt Mandrake: [very nervous] Lord, Jack.

Gen. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?

Gp Capt Mandrake: I… no, no. I don’t, Jack.

Gen. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.

Gp Capt Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen… tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first… become… well, develop this theory?

Gen. Ripper: [somewhat embarrassed] Well, I, uh… I… I… first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

Gp Capt Mandrake: Hmm.

Gen. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue… a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I… I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.

Gp Capt Mandrake: Hmm.

Gen. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh… women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh… I do not avoid women, Mandrake.

Gp Capt Mandrake: No.

Gen. Ripper: But I… I do deny them my essence.

setnaffa
setnaffa
2 years ago

Mandrake and Ripper

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