You hit the nail on the head. I am only half Korean, and get that from my own family on the Korean side. I am tolerated, not accepted.

@kind0fkorean

Жыл бұрын

I do feel bad for the kids born here who are not ethnically Korean. Must be quite tough

Honestly, Korea is a country where there is a very psychological level of discrimination. There is not much direct or physical discrimination. In other words, when comparing Europe, direct discrimination is prevalent in Europe. Assault, verbal abuse, ridicule.. But that rarely happens in Korea. (Of course, online culture is the worst, and this is the same for countries like Japan and China.) Discrimination in Korea tends to be conscious. It is often capitalist rather than racist. For example, there is also a discriminatory perception among Koreans according to clothing and appearance. And there is also a tendency to divide ratings on differences. This all applies to Koreans themselves, regardless of race or nationality. It is discrimination on a conscious level, but not physical. And this characteristic is similar not only in Korea but also in Japan. a dark psychological phenomenon that is known to be safe and well-mannered

@user-ez4cg9xn4u

5 күн бұрын

im korean I think it is the answer

Your british dry humour is top notch

@kind0fkorean

Жыл бұрын

Cheers mate!

Hey I just stumbled across your channel, and I can totally relate to some of your experiences here. You're right the people here are generally warm and welcoming, but at the same time, it's been pretty difficult for me to make any relationships with people here. Great content, keep up the good work

Lovin' the humour...keep it coming

When l was in Korea around Christmas, l noticed a lot of people ignored me. People usually say that Koreans stare at them, but not me. Totally ignored me. To the 3 people that actually acknowledged me with a smile or greeting... thank you! I felt quite awkward most of the time. I would be in Starbucks getting a coffee with my boyfriend but they would look at him and respond only to him when speaking. Or when we were in a restaurant having dinner. One guy at another table looked up from his dinner and saw me. He did a double take. Has a non Korean never been in this place before? I realize these smaller cities don't get as many foreigners as Seoul does but they do know we exist. I can see where it would be hard to make friends. All the same, it's still a lovely place and I'm still looking forward to a trip back at some point.

@kind0fkorean

Жыл бұрын

Sorry you had those experiences, it can be quite deflating. But like you said, it's a wonderful place to live and visit for many reasons. Racism and discrimination is unavoidable anywhere you go!

@haejeegwon9774

Жыл бұрын

Basically,korean think it's rude to stare at people. (especially in big cities like Seoul). And unlike in the West, people who meet for the first time rarely talk to each other. So most people ignore each other without looking at each other. They don't even hold the door. haha.. This is because don't want to burden you, especially in Korea, there is pressure that there may be a flirting misunderstanding if a man acts like that to a woman. (Of course, not all of them, but there are many cases where they hold the door) But if you go to a country side where there are not many foreigners, people may look at you. Especially for the elderly, most of them look at it in amazement without malice

@MarleyK77

Ай бұрын

@@haejeegwon9774wrong. I live in Seoul and I get stared and chased by old ladies at least 1x day

When I have to work in South Korea, if it's a 2 man installation I would most likely have a Korean colleague and even though I'm fluent speaking Korean the client tends to ignore me instead interacting with my colleague. There has also been places where a client gives me a NDA to sign and not my colleague and then share insults with there manager, even watching me like I'm there to steal things. Other things have happened too like refused entry to a club with the excuse trouble happened the night before with foreigners so management is refusing entry to foreigners and then told I'm banned even though it's my first time there, elderly openly saying slurs and discussing why I'm in Korea and at the same time debating what part of Africa I'm from, got kicked out of a cafe because a woman was scared and I never looked or interacted with her, getting arrested for preventing a Korean guy dragging is Korean partner through the street,taxi drivers trying to scam before I eventually switched to a app . Probably the most annoying thing that happens a lot is random Korean's asking if I can take a picture with them mainly due to me been 201cm tall then some ask to touch my hair and a few times I've had racist slurs aimed at me when doing this which I ignore because the law doesn't work in my favour in South Korea. So from my own experience it's a mix bag

Honestly I hate it here. I moved to sk from the US about 2 months ago and people look like me like I’m some monster or animal, don’t get me started with my large black dog I bought with me. Went through such a heartache for gen Z to boomers looking and talking 💩 about my dog without 0 shame, they don’t even have the audacity to keep it to themselves and say it out loud after I pass by, they have to say it right on my face. Ps: I’m Korean but was born in the US and i can’t wait to by my one way ticket back to the US and never touch my feet here in this land

8:43 😂😂😂😂😂

Don’t flirt with our women!” 🤦‍♀️ that kind of thinking is genuinely funny to me- and you hear it from racists of all stripes, for sure. It’s amazing how racists in different countries all seem to have the same talking points, like symptoms of the same disease. Slightly off topic, but I love the way that British people refer to jerks as “ muppets.” It’s so polite and yet a perfect insult at the same time.

I will advise my gouvernement mot to help south Korea after invation

"..bed-wetting..." 😂😂😂

Hello beautiful fellow traveller. I'm from the UK, teaching in ASIA. 20 ODD YEARS. From my experience in the UK growing up there: 1. What you said about overt racism exists, and yes I experienced it 1970s especially, 1980's, 1990's....gangs of youths attacking your school, and attacks at bus stations as you 'go home' ...real primal caveman stuff...difficult to handle as a middle-class boy where dad told you that the streets are paved with gold, everybody lives in big mansions and polite well-mannered society, cucumber sandwich, cricket, fair play, English law, English parliament, Magna Carta, level playing field, first European country to denounce and abolish slavery. CONFUSION DISCONNECT. 2. However you forget to mention SUBTLE RACISM, and ENGLISH SCARCASAM as an avenue of venting racism, Especially from females, 'hot enough for you?" "what's the PROBLEM?" ....as you walk into TOPMAN men's fashion for service. The best one that I can still remember is, 'Don't you have a television to watch?"...at home, denied entry into the club/party. 3. WORST form of racism is INSTITUTIONAL racism, of the Steven Lawrence kind. You really are F***k'ED when you enter the 50,000 grey files. ...its all random unscientific, illegal, hush-hush, forever and a day, and worse. My dad was a PAKI rocket scientist, who stayed in the UK. Maybe I'LL BE NEXT pAKI EINSTEIN, MAYBE HOPEFULLY NOT. Can you teach MATHS, can you teach science, please? But here one can be circumspect, given the sheer number who are in the same boat in the UK. It's not only me. And some of them big like the head of MI-6, Sir David Rolland Spedding, died 2 years after retirement for who knows what? Laughed too casually at my 3rd rate dissertation or his pals in the SFO and a whole gaggle of MI-6 officers, with George Stapleton had gone after ZIONSIST IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY....IN AND AROUND LONDON, AND JACOB ROTHSCHILDS OF LONDON MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT THAT MI-6 OFFICERS WERE SHADOWING HIM...AND HIS FAMILY.......and Lady Diana who was perceived to have secretly married an ARAB WOG PLAYBOY, with a possible love child on the way. ......or sponsoring Hitler via Swiss and Frankfurt banks. THIS IS WHAT I CALL HIGHER-LEVEL RACISM. 4. The BIGGEST REGRET AND LOSS, is all the beautiful people in abundance that I could have known and should have known. TEACHERS, ORDINARY PEOPLE, their faces passing through the reflections and reminiscing, with regret, and longing......Because I was TOO TIMID, A COWARD, TOO SHY....AND IMMATURE TO HANDLE RELATIONSHIPS. 5. Once you open your cakehole and speak the local vernacular, things are all right....mostly. In a restaurant in 1989, in a fight with a yob who works at the fish mongers, but as soon as the grunting and staring stops and he finds out what I get paid salary, the situation flips 100% and NEXT THING i KNOW he is inviting me for beers on him at the local on Saturday. WE BOTH BECOME THE SAME. 6. IN ASIA, I don't have such experiences. Not because I'm a battle-hardened warrior who has seen it all. The aggression, whether ethereal or real simply isn't there in a land that is a couple of miles from my grandmother's village.😆

@kind0fkorean

Жыл бұрын

Must have been tough mate. If I wanted to talk about English racism, I'd have to make an entire video on that! Thanks for sharing your story!

Things will get better due to 한류

한국은 심리적 차별이 심한 나라입니다. 대부분의 한국인은들은 다른 나라의 물리적인 차별을 예로 들며... "우리는 너희들을 주먹으로 때지리는 않는다" 인종차별에서도 '등급'을 나누며 자신들을 차별이 가장 적은 나라라고 합리화 시킵니다. 같은 한국인으로서 부끄러울 따름입니다.

I wonder what Koreans think of Taiwanese people and Taiwan.

@kind0fkorean

Жыл бұрын

I think there is not much negative thought (at least from my experience!)

@ori5581

2 ай бұрын

타이완 좋아요! 실제로 여행 우선국가 순위에도 2위로 랭크되어 있을걸요? 만약 좋아하지 않는다면 여행도 안가겠죠?

@user-kq1gp1li3f

2 ай бұрын

@@ori5581 그런데 한국에 있는 대만인보다 대만에 한국 사람이 더 적은 것 같아요

@ori5581

2 ай бұрын

@@user-kq1gp1li3f 그런통계가 잇나요? 왜그러지 ㅋㅋ아마 사는건 일본가서 많이살지 않을까싶네요…일단 언어적으로 일본어랑 굉장히 비슷해서 아무튼 한국에서는 불법체류 국가출신들에 이미지가 안좋은 편인데, 대만은 그런 국가가 아니어서 이미지 좋은편이에요

@ori5581

2 ай бұрын

@@user-kq1gp1li3f 저는 그리고 대만사람이랑 연애해보고 싶어요 ㅋㅋ 우연히 몇명 본적이 있었는데 그분들이 다 매력이 있었어서

youre not even korean if you want to be korean you should speak korean

👋👋✌️😁🇿🇦🇿🇦