I flew home last week, or what I thought was home. As soon as I stepped out of the airport everything appeared as if through a fog, vaguely familiar but somehow different, even foreign. After having spent the past couple of years complaining about, lashing out against and ultimately adjusting to life here in Korea, [...]
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Via Yonhap a nice article on how a fledgling theatre company is aiming to help give a voice to the struggles immigrant women in South Korea face. ”When someone tells me ‘you scared me,’ I reply, ‘You scared me, too,’” Berera says with a laugh. Berera is a main member of the [Salad theatre] company [...]
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With regard to the shooting in LA, as well as an earlier rampage in New York, the following I think really goes beyond the ususal suspects of the media or simple insanity in exploring how a person – an immigrant in both these cases – becomes a cold-blooded killer. Read the full article here: Whenever [...]
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Yonhap reports that South Korean officials said Friday the country will begin fingerprinting foreign visitors along the lines of similar programs in Japan and the U.S. … the planned fingerprinting policy is primarily intended to regulate illegal entries by foreigners. The United States and Japan have already adopted the fingerprinting policy. At present, some 200,000 [...]
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An AP article reports that the first man to be convicted of marital rape in South Korea was found dead Tuesday. Identified by his surname Lim, the man had been convicted of “accidentally” raping his Filipino wife at knifepoint and sentenced to a “suspended 30-month” prison term. The case marked the first time a man [...]
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New Year’s eve. As Israeli missiles begin to fall on Gaza, my family and I are at the Outback Steakhouse in southern Seoul waiting for a table. It’s my first time here and the first steak I’ve eaten in about twenty years. Despite the recession, the place is packed and we stand alongside a number [...]
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Ummm… hmmmm… really? According to the Chosun Ilbo, South Korea ranked third among OECD nations in terms of its adaptabiltiy to globalization in a study conducted by the Confederation of Danish Industry. Some of the benchmarks used include education levels, growth and development, and export capacity. I’m assuming the anti-US beef protests last month occurred [...]
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A look at our top pics from today’s Korean blogosphere: South Korea uses tasers, stun guns vs illegal migrants. Global Nation Following separate announcements of the European Union and Malaysia of stricter policies against illegal migrants, South Korea has stepped up its own campaign to chase out illegal migrant workers. Related story E-Mart downplays rumors [...]
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It’s a word I hear a lot more than I’d like to out here in Korea. In whispers at the playground with my son, in random sound bites on the street, in my Korean language textbook! It’s a word that labels you as different, an outsider in a country that can often be jealously protective [...]
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