Korean Journalistic Racism Equals Total Outrage

[heysupbro.livejournal.com]

This week a television program on a major Korean network news channel cast extremely racist aspersions on mixed race couples in the country. Even though Korea is traditionally a rather homogenous country, in the last 20 years it has enjoyed a dynamic influx of foreign residents from a variety of countries. For example, there is a highly intrenched English-speaking population that has made Korea a home away from home.

The video misguidedly makes the blanket suggestion that foreigners who date Koreans are dangerously licentious and lustful, that they cause HIV, and that they are not modest in their approach to interracial dating. Almost overnight, hundreds of mixed-race couples flocked to the social network, Facebook, and posted pictures of their happy families as a way of expressing their total shock and offense at the video. Many have made the point that since coming to Korea they have started loving, healthy, productive families.

Additionally, this report has sparked wild outrage on Facebook and other social networks, leading some to call for a boycott of the television network for broadcasting the story. One online group in particular, in just a few days, has grown to over 5,500 members. Expats, along with Koreans, have decried this broadcast as racist and inappropriate.


Source: noealz1 (video) + CNNireport (commentary)

Comments

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

this was posted the other day (well the article written out, not the vid)

[goldynchickie.livejournal.com]

This is the response to the video though

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

oh is it? from the cap i couldn't tell, sorry.

[mighty-romance.livejournal.com]

Additionally, this report has sparked wild outrage on Facebook and other social networks, leading some to call for a boycott of the television network for broadcasting the story. One online group in particular, in just a few days, has grown to over 5,500 members. Expats, along with Koreans, have decried this broadcast as racist and inappropriate.

Good. I hope the backlash continues to grow and there is a boycott. That video is complete and total bullshit.

[eishastan.livejournal.com]

Glad to see people doing something against this bullshit, especially mixed race couples in Korea! good for them!

[vintoblum.livejournal.com]

Down with white privelege?

[booboobooboo99.livejournal.com]

-1

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

What about all the other ethnicities that have to face prejudice like this?

[umbrella-smile.livejournal.com]

Ummm no, They talk about foreigners in general, not just white people.

[tha-x.livejournal.com]

so the only foreigners are white people?

[kiwilovekiwi.livejournal.com]

Haha mbc!!

[plantbottle.livejournal.com]

MBC's video was totally inappopriate. They deserve the backlash!

[scubajr.livejournal.com]

How stupid can MBC be to make something as blatantly racist as that and even air it. This backlash is well deserved.

[sayufied.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're acting as if Korean guys don't do the same.

It's not a matter of race or ethnicity, it happens to Korean couples as well...What complete idiots!!

smhsfm!!

[sayufied.livejournal.com]

"Daring intimacy"
-__-...

[obviousgirl.livejournal.com]

For some reason this phrase makes me feel like I've time warped back to my state in the 1950's.

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

It's great that there's backlash. This piece of backwards shit video deserves every bit if it.

[obviousgirl.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know the names of the FB pages they mention?

[fiercediva.livejournal.com]

It's this one mainly:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/319588811454559/

and other pertinent links discussed in here...

http://roboseyo.blogspot.com/2012/06/racist-mbc-video-some-perspective-and.html

[obviousgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links. :)

[embroideredkiss.livejournal.com]

This FB group is so ridiculous...it reached so many members so quickly because they just add people as members, not because people actually asked to join. Also, a few of my friends comments have been deleted without any explanation and they've been ejected from the group. That they never asked to join in the first place.

[obviousgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up. :)

[tophbei.livejournal.com]

"Some Korean women are trying to meet foreign men to learn English. But foreign men meet Korean women for a different purpose."

To learn English? Gurl you are trying to catch big things ;)

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

Foreign women, of course, don't know english at all and cannot be relied upon.

[breathless31.livejournal.com]

lol mte

[spassbremse123.livejournal.com]

I can't get over the ridiculousness and sensationalism.

[mishi07.livejournal.com]

hypocrites really, when they're so arrogant about hallyu

[spassbremse123.livejournal.com]

Definitely... you can't take over the world and "hide your kids from those scary foreigners" at the same time.

[muzegrey.livejournal.com]

Korean people have sex just a much, they just start a little later than us because it's like pretty much impossible to have sex in high school without doing it in a public area that creates a danger of being caught.

The difference between Americans and Koreans is that Korean people don't talk about it openly and they on the surface act as though they conform to the standards placed up them by media and culture - aka innocence.

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

It's so weird to me despite what you said being true the country is covered in love motels etc. where highly intoxicated girls unable to make their own decisions are dragged there every night by Korean men they just met.

[muzegrey.livejournal.com]

Well.... it's wrong to say it like the girls are always drunk and blame only men. Korean women know what going to a night club means. They aren't babies and shouldn't be treated like ones.

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

Oh of course, that's not what I meant at all. Both parties are at fault in most cases!

[muzegrey.livejournal.com]

But yeah, they assume all white people are easy, basically.

[thebluemonk.livejournal.com]

this article is crazy.

but they do hate black people, that much is a fact.

[hopelessheartz.livejournal.com]

There were so many black people in Korea though, at least compared to Japan. But I did notice when people would try to talk to us (typically older men *yuck*) they would focus on my friend who was Venezuelan/white.

[xiahrisma.livejournal.com]

What a mess..

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

Can we just blacklist MBC, the channel is crap anyways.

[germaineu.livejournal.com]

Ugh this video was so disgusting at first I thought I was confused -_- but I'm glad people are responding to its inappropriateness!

[martha-sal.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they are blaming the foreigners, it's not like they were forced into anything. It's their decision to go off with a man so if they are going to blame anybody they should be blamed too. I lived in Korea for two years and I've seen this happen but had no idea that the girls wanted to learn English...

[tarantye-no.livejournal.com]

But I think that video has a true point nontheless... There ARE foreigners who think asian girls in general are easy to get and take advantage of them just to have fun und to dump them afterwards.
It doesn't help against that racism though but they do have a point in some ways.

[megamisama-ann.livejournal.com]

oppars and unnirs may also do this?lol

who cares.