Archive for the ‘ Racism and xenophobia ’ Category
So, last night I packed my bags and moved out of what was my home for the past fifty-three weeks. I think it was a home solely because it was the place I crashed in for a year. Knowing I would not be staying on in my job as far back as February meant I [ READ MORE ]
“We have rooms,” the manager of OK Norae Bang told me. “But you’re not allowed to bring in alcohol.” It was the evening of South Korea’s mastery of Greece, and after the match a batch of us — mostly foreigners — were looking to keep feeling good by belting out a few tunes at a local [ READ MORE ]
I firmly believe Stuart and I have given a very favourable account of life in South Korea so far. This is not likely to change anytime soon since we are both in the process of at least examining the possibility of staying on beyond our current contracts, which expire in June (Stuart) and August (Andrew) [ READ MORE ]
Woo Yeong Yang never thought much about international couples before he met his Canadian girlfriend. Prior to his trip to the army a few years ago he didn’t even notice them around. “I couldn’t see any at all,” he says. “Now there are so many.” And now he is in one. Woo Yeong is leaving Korea soon [ READ MORE ]
There’s an experiment happening on Korean television these days: on a situational comedy a foreign man is living with his Korean wife’s family. The man relates with his Korean in-laws in presumably hilarious and surprising ways. Maybe this is a moot circumstance in your mind, but here it’s a noteworthy event played out for a [ READ MORE ]
After writing my entry the other day about the Anti-English Spectrum, my girlfriend informed me that she was, in fact, one of the 16,000 members of the internet cafe. I’m not sure whether this takes away from the importance of their rather large membership (perhaps some are just there for curiousity’s sake), or if I should [ READ MORE ]
Well, I was all set to write a cute blurb about getting shit-needled by one of my kindergarten students today when I read about a death threat sent to the Association of Teachers of English in South Korea. Somehow this seemed more important. The threat was discussed on a CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) program [ READ MORE ]