It's official: Korea is Racist

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

They also tended toward a more global outlook 25 years ago than the insularity becoming pervasive nowadays.

Thanks to the shitty economy and Muslim terrorism this is a global trend.

I could dispute your assertion and say nasty things about imperialist power expansionism (Germany, Russia, China, India, Brazil and the US are all among those reaching outward) and that sort of shite, but I generally have to agree with you, unfortunately.

[Samurai_Jerk]

They also tended toward a more global outlook 25 years ago than the insularity becoming pervasive nowadays.

Thanks to the shitty economy and Muslim terrorism this is a global trend.

I could dispute your assertion and say nasty things about imperialist power expansionism (Germany, Russia, China, India, Brazil and the US are all among those reaching outward) and that sort of shite, but I generally have to agree with you, unfortunately.

Well, we can discuss the root cause of the current economic malaise and "Islamofacism" but those are the things that make the masses feel more insular and protective and give their governments license to take away civil liberties and enact xenophobic policies.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

They also tended toward a more global outlook 25 years ago than the insularity becoming pervasive nowadays.

Thanks to the shitty economy and Muslim terrorism this is a global trend.

I could dispute your assertion and say nasty things about imperialist power expansionism (Germany, Russia, China, India, Brazil and the US are all among those reaching outward) and that sort of shite, but I generally have to agree with you, unfortunately.

Well, we can discuss the root cause of the current economic malaise and "Islamofacism" but those are the things that make the masses feel more insular and protective and give their governments license to take away civil liberties and enact xenophobic policies.

And that's exactly the same thing you said in your previous post except now you've written it in Bullshiteese....Much as I'd love to dispute what you're saying, I cna't. You're right.

[Coligny]

islamofascism is just the communism boogeyman du jour... nothing new since 1945... and i think there's even quite a safety margin before we reach the delirium of McCarthyism... give it 5 more years ..,

[wangta]

I was recently in Seoul and met with some Australian friends who were Tokyo expats and now living in Seoul. Just repeating some stories I heard so would be keen to hear from our resident Korean expert as to the accuracy of this sort of thing.

I was really interested in their stories of the kids who are at international school - 100% Korean blood but born in the US. There are apparently many companies offering "Maternity Tourism". So if you have the cash, while pregnant and still allowed to fly you trek over to the US and live in a special hotel owned and operated by Korean companies that offer all the kimchee you can eat and all the comforts of home. Give birth in the US and stay long enough to get the sprog their US passport and then fly home to Korea. Usually a 4-6 month round trip. It is part of the constitution that anybody born in the US is automatically a US citizen.

Why? Well something about the bylaws of international schools say that they must keep a certain percentage of "foreign" students to keep their international school status so lots of Korean kids are denied access to the uber posh, fashionable, private and expensive international school unless they have a foreign passport. Also the kid is able easier access US unversities when they are older. So the expat kids are usually more grounded than these super wealthy local kids.

Also more anecdotes.
Sport - apparently the rich Korean kids don't really get into sport much as it is seen as something that the poor people do.
Plastic Surgery - ALL the uber rich Korean mums with kids at these international schools have had "work" done but all deny it.

I'd say this is more or less accurate. There's actually a term for the children born that way in the US - I think it's 'Anchor Babies'. Personally I feel good luck to them if they go to the bother and expense of doing that but like most western foreigners in Korea I also was at the same time annoyed about Koreans' constant bleating and bitching about English teachers living and working in Korea.

We paid taxes, paid into the health and pension systems, and often spent a fair bit of money in Korea. Many Koreans give the impression that the world is theirs to do what they like in but heaven forbid somebody work on a limited term contract in Korea even after jumping through hoops like drugs and HIV tests and paying what ranges from 160 to 300 or more bucks for apostilled documents to prove yet again that our unis are real. I know all societies in the world are protective of their home turf but what annoyed me about Korea was the fact they migrate, study or live illegally elsewhere but throw a tantrum about foreigners mostly working on very restricted visas legally in Korea with zero chance of getting a visa for more than one year at a time.

Re the plastic surgery - I find it really sad. My first job in Korea was at a girls' school, most of my students were really good kids with nice or funny personalities, Koreans generally have an attractive range of looks, yet my teenaged students often announced their 'ambition' or 'dream' in English class as having plastic surgery 'soon'. My last job I worked with 8 female teachers under 35 yrs old (western age - Korean age adds on a year or two) and 2 men of the same age group.

All but one of the women were obsessed with talking about looks and future plastic surgeries - for those who already hadn't had eye enlargements or nose sculpting. All of them had lived outside Korea for at least three years but you wouldn't have known it except in the case of one teacher who became good friends with me and is still in contact. I was a bit shocked to find the most rabidly anti foreigner Korean, an incredible bitch, had lived for four years in Sydney.

Not one of them had any friends, close or general, in Oz, Canada, the USA who were non Korean or non Asian. My friend lived in Japan, not a western country, and she said that Japanese people had more openness than Koreans and were less superificial. Just her opinion as a Korean but having lived in both countries I agree with her.

[Russell]

islamofascism is just the communism boogeyman du jour... nothing new since 1945... and i think there's even quite a safety margin before we reach the delirium of McCarthyism... give it 5 more years ..,

Dunno about the time frame, but the boogeyman du jour comment is spot on!

[Russell]

I was really interested in their stories of the kids who are at international school - 100% Korean blood but born in the US. There are apparently many companies offering "Maternity Tourism". So if you have the cash, while pregnant and still allowed to fly you trek over to the US and live in a special hotel owned and operated by Korean companies that offer all the kimchee you can eat and all the comforts of home. Give birth in the US and stay long enough to get the sprog their US passport and then fly home to Korea. Usually a 4-6 month round trip. It is part of the constitution that anybody born in the US is automatically a US citizen.

Why? Well something about the bylaws of international schools say that they must keep a certain percentage of "foreign" students to keep their international school status so lots of Korean kids are denied access to the uber posh, fashionable, private and expensive international school unless they have a foreign passport. Also the kid is able easier access US unversities when they are older. So the expat kids are usually more grounded than these super wealthy local kids.

LOL, aren't US citizens subject to US taxes even when living abroad? At least these kids will have enough English ability to fill in the IRS forms...

[matsuki]

Re the plastic surgery - I find it really sad. My first job in Korea was at a girls' school, most of my students were really good kids with nice or funny personalities, Koreans generally have an attractive range of looks, yet my teenaged students often announced their 'ambition' or 'dream' in English class as having plastic surgery 'soon'. My last job I worked with 8 female teachers under 35 yrs old (western age - Korean age adds on a year or two) and 2 men of the same age group.

All but one of the women were obsessed with talking about looks and future plastic surgeries - for those who already hadn't had eye enlargements or nose sculpting.

I'm still waiting til the booty implants catch on in Korea...

All of them had lived outside Korea for at least three years but you wouldn't have known it except in the case of one teacher who became good friends with me and is still in contact. I was a bit shocked to find the most rabidly anti foreigner Korean, an incredible bitch, had lived for four years in Sydney.

Seen that with Japanese as well...though the few lemurs from my university that I still talk to really regret not making more friends and getting out more. (their English sure is suffering for it too)

LOL, aren't US citizens subject to US taxes even when living abroad? At least these kids will have enough English ability to fill in the IRS forms...

We have to file taxes at the very least. Will be interesting if the governments start sharing tax records like the trend is going...

[Samurai_Jerk]

I was really interested in their stories of the kids who are at international school - 100% Korean blood but born in the US. There are apparently many companies offering "Maternity Tourism". So if you have the cash, while pregnant and still allowed to fly you trek over to the US and live in a special hotel owned and operated by Korean companies that offer all the kimchee you can eat and all the comforts of home. Give birth in the US and stay long enough to get the sprog their US passport and then fly home to Korea. Usually a 4-6 month round trip. It is part of the constitution that anybody born in the US is automatically a US citizen.

Why? Well something about the bylaws of international schools say that they must keep a certain percentage of "foreign" students to keep their international school status so lots of Korean kids are denied access to the uber posh, fashionable, private and expensive international school unless they have a foreign passport. Also the kid is able easier access US unversities when they are older. So the expat kids are usually more grounded than these super wealthy local kids.

LOL, aren't US citizens subject to US taxes even when living abroad? At least these kids will have enough English ability to fill in the IRS forms...

Citizens and permanent residents (i.e. greencard holders) but only if they make more than a certain amount a year (it goes up every year and I think it's just under USD 100,000 right now). Even if you don't owe anything you're supposed to file a tax return annually or you could lose your exemption. You're also supposed to give the IRS all your bank account information (including joint and corporate accounts) if you have a total of more than USD 10,000 deposited at any time during the tax year. There are a lot of people who have US citizenship but have spent little or no time in the US and are unknowingly in violation. If you do pop up on the IRS's radar for some reason and they can fuck you, they will.

[Samurai_Jerk]

To anyone who doesn't believe Koreans are the master race, I present this!

[GomiGirl]

That was.. well, I don't know what that was... there seems to be a series of them...

[IparryU]

I was really interested in their stories of the kids who are at international school - 100% Korean blood but born in the US. There are apparently many companies offering "Maternity Tourism". So if you have the cash, while pregnant and still allowed to fly you trek over to the US and live in a special hotel owned and operated by Korean companies that offer all the kimchee you can eat and all the comforts of home. Give birth in the US and stay long enough to get the sprog their US passport and then fly home to Korea. Usually a 4-6 month round trip. It is part of the constitution that anybody born in the US is automatically a US citizen.

Why? Well something about the bylaws of international schools say that they must keep a certain percentage of "foreign" students to keep their international school status so lots of Korean kids are denied access to the uber posh, fashionable, private and expensive international school unless they have a foreign passport. Also the kid is able easier access US unversities when they are older. So the expat kids are usually more grounded than these super wealthy local kids.

LOL, aren't US citizens subject to US taxes even when living abroad? At least these kids will have enough English ability to fill in the IRS forms...

Citizens and permanent residents (i.e. greencard holders) but only if they make more than a certain amount a year (it goes up every year and I think it's just under USD 100,000 right now). Even if you don't owe anything you're supposed to file a tax return annually or you could lose your exemption. You're also supposed to give the IRS all your bank account information (including joint and corporate accounts) if you have a total of more than USD 10,000 deposited at any time during the tax year. There are a lot of people who have US citizenship but have spent little or no time in the US and are unknowingly in violation. If you do pop up on the IRS's radar for some reason and they can fuck you, they will.

Just to make a minor addition... Children of citizens and permanent residents are also subject to tax. Even if they DO NOT get their social security number or claim birth abroad, they are subject to tax.

More specifically, one of my colleagues has a client who is going through a probate issue. Mom is Japanese, dad is gone, but mom just passed away and somehow the Uncle Sam caught wind of it and wants a cut... but the probate tax should go to Japan (by all means) because mom is Japanese, she died in Japan and is leaving everything to her kids in a Japanese will, note the children don't speak English nor have ever been to the US of A and have no SSN, passport, nada.

Fuck Uncle Sam and that cerberus like hound he rides on.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Fuck Uncle Sam and that cerberus like hound he rides on.

What? At the same time? What do you think I am? German?

[Samurai_Jerk]

I was really interested in their stories of the kids who are at international school - 100% Korean blood but born in the US. There are apparently many companies offering "Maternity Tourism". So if you have the cash, while pregnant and still allowed to fly you trek over to the US and live in a special hotel owned and operated by Korean companies that offer all the kimchee you can eat and all the comforts of home. Give birth in the US and stay long enough to get the sprog their US passport and then fly home to Korea. Usually a 4-6 month round trip. It is part of the constitution that anybody born in the US is automatically a US citizen.

Why? Well something about the bylaws of international schools say that they must keep a certain percentage of "foreign" students to keep their international school status so lots of Korean kids are denied access to the uber posh, fashionable, private and expensive international school unless they have a foreign passport. Also the kid is able easier access US unversities when they are older. So the expat kids are usually more grounded than these super wealthy local kids.

LOL, aren't US citizens subject to US taxes even when living abroad? At least these kids will have enough English ability to fill in the IRS forms...

Citizens and permanent residents (i.e. greencard holders) but only if they make more than a certain amount a year (it goes up every year and I think it's just under USD 100,000 right now). Even if you don't owe anything you're supposed to file a tax return annually or you could lose your exemption. You're also supposed to give the IRS all your bank account information (including joint and corporate accounts) if you have a total of more than USD 10,000 deposited at any time during the tax year. There are a lot of people who have US citizenship but have spent little or no time in the US and are unknowingly in violation. If you do pop up on the IRS's radar for some reason and they can fuck you, they will.

Just to make a minor addition... Children of citizens and permanent residents are also subject to tax. Even if they DO NOT get their social security number or claim birth abroad, they are subject to tax.

More specifically, one of my colleagues has a client who is going through a probate issue. Mom is Japanese, dad is gone, but mom just passed away and somehow the Uncle Sam caught wind of it and wants a cut... but the probate tax should go to Japan (by all means) because mom is Japanese, she died in Japan and is leaving everything to her kids in a Japanese will, note the children don't speak English nor have ever been to the US of A and have no SSN, passport, nada.

Fuck Uncle Sam and that cerberus like hound he rides on.

The US doesn't have a Federal inheritance tax so it must be a fairly large estate because there's no estate tax on the first 5 million dollars or so. Fucking ridiculous either way.

What? At the same time? What do you think I am? German?

Did somebody say German? This one might make Coligny's head explode.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

The US doesn't have a Federal inheritance tax so it must be a fairly large estate because there's no estate tax on the first 5 million dollars or so..

You mean the U.S. actually taxes something over 5 million dullards?
I was of the (obviously mistaken) belief the U.S. essentially didn't tax the wealthy, but I realize it's only proportionate and the rich do, indeed, pay their taxes.

Did somebody say German? This one might make Coligny's head explode.

There's hope for the Axis of Evil judged on how the Axis cuntries fared in this poll. Maybe they should just go out and slaughter millions?

[Anonymous1]

Koreans are that really cool Exclusive clique that people hates because they have been denied membership
But once your accepted into that clique you enter the world of hot girls and how to be pro in starcraft

[Samurai_Jerk]

You mean the U.S. actually taxes something over 5 million dullards?
I was of the (obviously mistaken) belief the U.S. essentially didn't tax the wealthy, but I realize it's only proportionate and the rich do, indeed, pay their taxes.

The richest of the rich tend to pay very little in taxes because most of them make their money through capital gains. Those who make their money through wages or winning the lottery do pay the highest tax rate (in theory).

[Buraku]

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