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The LA Times does a quick piece on the battle between Anti-English Spectrum and English teachers.  It mostly talked to this man, Yie Eun-woong, a (wait for it) 40-year-old single man with no children.  He actually proudly admits to "following" teachers.  He also claims that what he is doing is not racist.  He used to ride in his taxi driver father's cab when he was a kid, and his father picked up American military personnel sometimes.  But he knows how to pick "the good guys from the bad guys."

Kind of reminds me of the good ol' boys that I encountered in Alabama on an increasingly rare basis when I was young.  "I'm not a racist.  I have nothing against blacks.  I just hate n***rs."

[HT to Extra! Korea]

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Yonhap and the other news outlets report that the North has fired on South Korean naval vessels, and the South has returned fire.  This occurred in a "no sail" zone declared by the North, near Baengnyeong Island.

North Korea Fires Artillery; South Returns Fire - Yonhap

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Hoo boy!

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Remember that guy in the boy band 2PM who got run out of the country for saying "Korea is gay?"

Turns out he's back in America working part time changing tires.  This was revealed on a cable channel, tvN.  The irony of this is that netizens are shaming tvN for invading his privacy.

So here's the scorecard.

Harassing on the internet: OK

Harassing on TV: Not OK

(Source Soju and Other Inanities, HT to Karl)

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After only a couple of months of being online, @koreangov has called it quits.  Well, it was a good run.

For the historians, he's posted almost every single tweet from the Twitter account.

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According the Billboard.biz (Billboard's B2B web site), "Nobody" by the Wonder Girls hit freakin' #1 on the U.S. Year-end Hot Single Sales charts.

In other news... Seoul froze over.

In case you're interested here's a link to their debut on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance." No, they didn't compete--just performed.

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2009, if anything, has seen the explosion of good quality comedic blogs. Just a few years ago, they were truly scarce, consisting of The Yangpa (original), The Yangpa (tribute edition) and maybe some silly posts from Big Hominid (you just had to be in the right mood). The tribute Yangpa's post about the opening of Korea's holocaust museum is still a favorite.

The new blogs have taken satirical tones, mostly at the clumsily excecuted self-aggrandizement of Koreans and the Korean government. As money has been funneled into projects to promote Korean food and tourism as well as nation branding, the quirks of the society have risen to the top in the forms of bloviating news columns and embarrassingly awkward English press releases and sites. With more and more of this coming, there has been more material to satirize. It's like the shy kid deciding to go onstage to introduce everyone to his imaginary friend. The whole time, the kid had no problem with having an imaginary friend until he brought it to the public and was caught off guard at the wave of laughter and ridicule.

Not the most graceful of metaphors, but that's what came to mind. With these promotions, we are getting a glimpse at notions that have been under the surface in Korean society that they may not want us to see, a self image that is not nearly in sync with the rest of the world. Fan death was just a hint. The supersition, irrational fears and childlike self-centeredness that still linger in a society that advanced technologically too quickly for the culture to keep pace unintentionally gets exposed.

And satirists picked it up and ran like shirtless drunks on Cops.

It started mid-2008 with Dokdo Is Ours, whose name brings up one of the most baffling issues to outsiders. Many countries have territorial disputes, but as Won-bok Rhie says in his account of his countrymen in Korea Unmasked, Koreans tend to take things to extremes. Giant ads taken out in American newspapers. Birds hacked to death with hammers. A pig being ripped apart alive (okay, that was to protest the movement of a military office, but there are many examples of Korea's extreme theatrical approach to protest). They're too blinded by their own self-righteousness to see that they're turning people off to their causes before they even knew what they were talking about.

Dokdo Is Ours is one of the most thoughtful of comedy blogs. It puts in long posts with ample links. When it's on target, it's on target, writing as if it was one of the English daily newspapers.

Lee MyungBak: Multicultural Korea Welcomes Everyone -- "Even Darkies"

Shopkeeper's Mind Blown Upon Discovering There Are Four Christmas Songs

Prioritized List: How to Help Foreigners Adjust to Life In Korea

I am sitting in front of a mirror as I write this, and the mirror is shaped like a map of korea, and on that mirror, I have written "Hanshik"

They are currently undertaking a project to translate The Great Gatsby into Korean government style English.

That brings us to the site that has been greatly influencing K-blogland. @koreangov started out as a Twitter micro-blog, the first K-satirist to use Twitter. Using real news stories as platforms, it fashioned itself as if it was the official Twitter account for the Korean government. It changed the game by not only making the auto-fellating pronouncements that the Korean government tends to make, it did so by using the clumsy English they used. The bane for English speakers in Korea from time immemorial, even before Jesus was born in Korea, has been the arrogance of Koreans to publicize English documents without running them by native speakers first, thinking their TESOL scores more than qualified them to write and speak flawlessly. Many web sites and publications look as if they'd been processed through Babelfish.

@koreangov used this as its writing style and took off as one of the favorite twits to follow, getting high marks from ROK Drop in his list of essential Twitter list. Here are some recent tweets:

PyeongChang 2014! "The mountainous terrain and poor growing conditions of Gangwon-do have affected the local cuisine" digs.by/13GO

http://digs.by/13Bu "Legislators to break stalemate"; each other's faces

Iran hooked on Korean dramas http://digs.by/13B5 "Women's role in Iranian society doesn't seem so bad anymore" says female viewer

Do you listen that? It is a sound of KOREA sneak up on your economy and do a pounce!

With its popularity, and I'm sure some begging from fans, @koreangov started a proper blog, governmentofkorea.blogspot.com, with the subtitle FORMAL blog of the REPIBLIC OF THE GREAT HAN KOREAN PEOPLE (대한민국) is OFFICIAL 풍 for more lengthy posts but still in its classic Engrishee style. Some instant classics include the following:

The "We are "VANKERS"!!~~" series, chronicaling the id masturbating of the group VANK, who appointed itself as Korea's great PR machine.

Tourpia! KOREA touring culture city #1 in 21st Century, KOREA -- A list of Korean city slogans, because you know that all proper modern cities should have English slogans, like "Perfumed Cultural City."

"Written Driving Test to be Streamlined" claims to be a look at the new Korean driver's exam, with questions like "Family Name(Circle one): KIM/PARK/CHOI/LEE."

It's been an influence in that people have started to pick up Koreangov talk in the comments, and it has spread to other blogs in the comments and on Facebook. As mentioned earlier, Dokdo Is Ours is rewriting Gatsby in Koreangov speak.

A valiant effort that hasn't been updated as much but has some comedy gold is Dong Chim. This is written in the English newspaper style of Dokdo Is Ours and has a nice layout. Based in Busan, Dong Chim has fun "making light of every aspect of Korean living."

Here are some examples:

Korean Scientists Announce the Discovery of a Fifth Season

Mr. Pizza’s Love For Women is Crushed by Heartbreak

Study Links Erectile Dysfunction and the Quantity of Barber Poles in Korean Communities

The new kid on the block, KoreaIsBest, takes the style of @koreangov and makes a site that looks just like the candy-coated but useless sites the Korean government makes, looking like it took after the infamously aborted ifriendly.kr. That's where the art comes from, at least. It sounds like a government site for foreigners taken over by the bozos at Anti-English Spectrum, with repeated warnings about "Homeless Sexuals" and "the AIDS."

At the bottom, it has a place to "Please tell about the criminal," complete with comments they may be made up, considering that they were all posted on December 31st, 1969.

Satirical comedy may have trouble with the laws in Korea, but it is developing in the English blog world to a point of refinement. The Yangpa gave birth to satirical K-blogs. Dokdo Is Ours established the satirical culture. @koreangov and KoreaIsBest have created the new models of K-blog satire. As long as ajosshis-in-power make buffoons of their countrymen, the Ko-medy blogs will turn the frustration into laughter.

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Okay, this one is a pretty big landing.  "The Current" on CBC Radio (the Canadian NPR, I call it), featured Dann Gaymer, and it's a pretty damning piece on Anti-English Spectrum and the latest rash of xenophobia in South Korea.  Dan gets to the heart of the matter--resentment of Korean men about "their" women having relationships with foreigners.

Has a good reaction from a Korean embassy official in Canada, painting Anti-English Spectrum as a "reactionary group."

It also talks to Andrea Vandom about her stand against the AIDS testing of E-2 visa teachers, one of the guys snagged by (what I think was) the SBS investigative report a while back (he didn't give us a good picture, really), and Ben Wagner about the Korean aversion to mixed race relationships.

Give it a listen.

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I've been constructively critical of the new batch of leadership at ATEK in their stumbles in their new posts.  They're still rough around the edges, but they're shaving them off (key choice of phrase there), and they definitely have some cajones.

The latest press release directly targets Anti-English Spectrum as a racist hate group and is going after Naver, their "cafe's" host, to shut them down, claiming violations of Korea's defamation laws and an international anti-discrimination treaty that they had signed--hopefully not just to look good in front of other nations.

A familiar name pops up in the press release, Andrea Vandom.  You may remember our returning champion from her role as "English teacher who refused to submit HIV test." Now she's meeting with the Korean-American mayor of Irvine, California, which is the base for Naver's American presence.

Even though she's not directly in the ATEK leadership, she seems to be taking a Rosa Parks role in the movement.

Okay, enough talking.  Let me do the Korean journalist thang and repost the press release verbatim.

(2009 Nov 13) ATEK: Naver Should Pull the Plug on the Anti English Spectrum

The Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK) is pledging support to recent calls for NHN, the parent company of Naver.com, to take action against the online community of the Anti English Spectrum (AES), a race hate group that advocates vigilante tactics against foreign teachers that operates on Naver.com.

Letters were posted to the NHN Corporation, both in Korea and in Irvine, California, where the company's US branch is located. In the letters, written by Andrea Vandom, a PhD student in International Relations at the University of California, it is explained that the racist material on the Anti English Spectrum's page violates Naver's user agreement.

On the page it is suggested that AIDS infected foreign teachers are purposely spreading the disease, while molesting children, raping Korean woman and consuming large quantities of narcotics. These accusations have also been printed onto calling cards and distributed on streets of Seoul.

In her letters to the NHN Corporation, Vandom stated:

"This group’s highly defamatory statements violate Article Ga-4 (Defamatory Posts) of Naver cafe’s terms of service agreement and rise to the level of violations of the Korean criminal code."

Vandom also pointed out that Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which the Republic of Korea fully supports, states that the promotion of racial hatred, such as in posters used by the Anti English Spectrum on their Naver page, is illegal. By hosting these posters Naver is in effect assisting racist activities, which under Article 4(a) of the ICERD, is an offense that Korea has declared "punishable by law".

With regards to the letter's Vandom mailed to NHN, ATEK president Greg Dolezal stated,
"The Anti English Spectrum is attempting to sabotage multiculturalism in Korea with their xenophobic accusations that are aimed at foreign English teachers who are innocent of the crimes the group describes."

Despite the implausibility of the group's claims Dolezal stressed,

"ATEK cannot accept such harmful material relating to foreign teachers being spread in the public domain, especially when it could skew perceptions of foreign teachers and harm our members. Therefore we whole heartedly support these letters and urge the NHN Corporation to honor Naver's content policies and remove the offensive material from the group's page"

The city of Irvine recently elected Sukhee Kang as its mayor. Kang was born and raised in the Republic of Korea, immigrating to the USA with his wife in 1977. A successful businessman and father of two, Kang made the history books by becoming the first Korean-American to serve as the Mayor of a major U.S. city. Earlier this week Vandom met with the mayor to get his support in persuading the NHN Corporation to remove all of the offensive material from the Anti English Spectrum's Naver page.

The NHN Corporation incorporated Naver.com in 1999 and launched the search portal “Naver.” Naver.com has grown to be the fifth most used search engine in the world and the Naver name has gone global with affiliates in Japan, the US and China. In 2006, both of NHN’s original founders, Kim Beom-Su and Moon Tae-Sik, relocated to the United States in order to learn more about the US market.

ATEK, a support group for over a thousand foreign teachers in Korea, wishes to give its full support to Vandom and her letters to the NHN Corporation. Consequently we expect NHN to enforce their user policies and remove all offensive material from the Anti English Spectrum's Naver page.

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Get the latest news and blog posts in one place.

Chatjip collects the news from the Korean blogosphere.  It organizes it all in a clean interface that is easy to read.  On the front page you can move the categories as you wish.  Want to read Entertainment headlines on top?  Just drag the “Entertainment” box to the top position.  Chatjip remembers the configuration you have.  You can also have the panels show 0, 5, 10, and 15 headlines at one time.

The news topics also have their own pages if you want to dig even deeper into the news of the day.  After a month, they’re put into the easily searchable and organized archives.

We also have a Twitter module for Korea Tweets, the KR-ittersphere, on the right sidebar.  On the left edge of the screen is a tab that shows King Sejong’s tweets from the SeoulPodcast.  On that tab, you can leave your own comments.  Try it out!

Connect with others in Korea.

You can easily sign up for membership in Chatjip with your Facebook ID.  Just click on the “Connect with Facebook” button, and it automatically signs you in as a member using the info you have in Facebook.  You can also create your own separate membership.

The Community page is the heart of the site.  It’s set up a little like Facebook, but it’s an accompaniment, not replacement, for Facebook.  At Chatjip Community, you can connect to others with your interests.

Here’s an example.

You get a job out in Yongin.  You don’t know anyone there, and you don’t want to make the journey into Seoul all the time for socializing.  Fill out your profile as fully as you can, including city and neighborhood.  On your finished profile, click on the city or neighborhood link, and you’ll find others close by who likely would be up for a meal or a drink.  The main difference between Facebook and Chatjip Community is that the profiles are tailored to people living in Korea.

More features like instant messaging are on the way.  In the meantime, features are added regularly, like games and profile enhancements.

The first troll-free forums in Korea.

We’ve created forums using the most up-to-date software that are already hooked up to your Chatjip account.  There’s no need to fill in another registration form.  The forums contain more subjects to tailor to the growing diverse interests of the community.

Now, here’s where the challenge is.

We’ve learned from experience and observation that laissez-faire forums attract the bullies and social retards and drive away people like you and me just trying to ask simple questions.  Chatjip forums have little tolerance for trolls.  Expressing yourself is fine and encouraged.  We even have minimal language filtering.  Yet we have a strict policy on personal attacks and harassment.  If someone is ruining the party, click on the ‘!’ button, and a moderator will take care of it.  Repeat offenders will have their IPs suspended, and they will have a difficult time returning because we block all IP proxies.

What does that mean?

It means that Chatjip forums are difficult for jerks to mess up.  So now we have a safe place to get information, help and to have stimulating civil chat with other human beings.  The asswipes will just have to go to the other big board to abuse people.

Find out what’s going on.

Events are a major deficit in the K-blogosphere.  We have a constantly updated events calendar for any type of happening.  Tours, DJs, concerts, festivals, art shows, classes, and more!  If you have an event you wish to promote tell us, and we’ll add it.

Better information.

The posts from ZenKimchi Blogs & News have been moved to “The Big Blog” in Chatjip.  Posts will be more informative, so you won’t have to search through multiple blogs and message boards for simple basic life info.

Enhance your leisure time on and off work.

Our Leisure, Travel and Food sections cover some of the most entertaining blogs out there that give suggestions on where to go, what to do and how to make the most of your time in Korea.  Even if you’re at work, the Videos, Podcasts and Time Wasters can occupy any static break time.

Plug your blog.  Plug your business.  Plug your organization.

We have created the easiest and most affordable means to advertise.  Our ads start as low as $3.

That’s right.  Three dollars.

That’s cheap enough to just write “I love cheese” for no reason whatsoever (as long as you have a site to link it to).

Our premium banner ads are also affordable and laser targeted to reach the expat audience in Korea.  We have multiple plans for your needs, whether you want to drive traffic directly to your site or if you just want to enhance brand recognition.

Get involved.

In Chatjip communities, you can create groups, share pictures and share videos.  You can also be a part of the Chatjip administration team itself.  When you reach a certain rank in the forums or a certain level of Karma Points for community activity, you qualify to be a part of the Chatjip Administration Team.  Being a team member can have some benefits, such as free advertising and swag like party passes.

We hope we have a site that you will make use out of.  Read the FAQ.  Sign up and introduce yourself.

Have fun!

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Not all feeds are the same.  That little "RSS" button is not always user friendly for content readers.  If you own a blog and want to get hte most out of syndication, not only for Chatjip but in general, here are a few guidelines.

Use a feed generatior. Your feed file may be outdated, may not be universally compatible or may not represent your blog in the best way. Use a site like Feedburner to standardize your feed so it's more universally compatible.  It's easy to set up.  If you're on Chatjip and have changed your feed, please inform us.

Got pictures? At least one good picture per story says a lot.  It also increases the likelihood of getting your post in the front page news rotator.  Pictures should be between 300px and 600 px in width.

Long titles are very hard to squeeze properly into little boxes and columns. Remember, brevity is the soul of wit.  Only Fractured Fairy Tales in the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show could pull off long titles successfully.

Avoid special characters in your title. This is a hard guideline to follow, and sometimes it's unavoidable.  The fact is that special characters like apostrophes, parentheses and ampersands get syndicated as ugly html code.  We've recently upgraded our feed grabber to take care of most of them.  Yet outside of Chatjip people's feed readers garble them up, especially those nasty ampersands.

Truncated feeds suck. Some readers just don't like it.  They want to read teh full article.  When they come across a truncated feed, they skip over it if the title isn't compelling enough.  If your main concern is having readers miss your ad content there is a method to add ads to your feed in Feedburner.

Don't remove your pictures. This is the same as truncated feeds but even worse.  If you are a photoblog and remove your pictures from your feed, then what content in there is compelling enough to make your readers click through?

Space out your posts. To prevent overwhelming the pages with posts from just one site, our server grabs only one post per blog per hour.  If you post twice in an hour one will not make the cut.  For those of you who post over ten a day, seriously, do you think your readers have as much free time as you to read those?  When I take a few days off to have a life and return to check out blogs in my reader, I don't want to see 400 posts, most of which are crap, waiting for me to read them.  I end up unsubscribing.

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From Highlights.com

The Chatjip forums distinguish themselves from the other K-forums by this philosophy: "Trolls will be dealt with swiftly and painfully."

The forums are our teahouse.  The posters are our guests.  If a guest is being disorderly, he's not welcome.  Kicking out a troll loses one person.  Keeping a troll loses ten.  Free speech is a universal right, and abusing that right to intimidate others' rights to free speech is childish.  So no overgrown belligerent brats in our teahouse.

• Post anything that can run afoul of South Korea's strict criminal defamation laws.  This includes naming names of people, businesses and organizations and painting them in an unflattering light.  This puts you and Chatjip in criminal peril.  At least one of us have learned this the hard way.
• Blatantly violate a copyright
• Use racial slurs in a non-academic sense
• Disrespect others in the community, no matter how wrong or stupid they are.  Flaming is only used by those who are losing an argument.
• Sexually harass or give persistent unwanted romantic/sexual advances to community members
• Reveal anyone's private information, member or not, without their approval
• Excessively and gratuitously use profanity.  A little in context is fine, but there is a line.  Don't cross it.  Besides, the clever person uses more creative colorful metaphors.
• Be excessively lewd.  That's just gross!
• Post content that can be used as fodder to disparage the community as a whole by certain media outlets, hate groups and politicians.
• Obvious spamming.  This does not apply to promoting your event or website.  But generic viagra posters will be eliminated.

If you spot a user violating these rules, click on the "!" button to report abuse.

Also, please follow some general forum etiquette rules.

• Search first to find if your topic has already been covered.  Repetitive topics will be removed.
• Don't post the same topic in different forums.
• No scrolling, which is posting the same thing over and over.
• Avoid ALL CAPS.
• Stay on topic.
• Be nice to newbies.
• Refrain from power posting, as in meaningless one-word posts to up your post count.
• Choose the best forum for your topic.  Moderators reserve the privilege to move topics to the correct forums.
• Respect the authori-TAH of the moderators.  They have thankless jobs here (somewhat).
• Don't quote more in a reply than you need to.

NOTE: These rules are subject to change in response to unforeseen issues.

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I hate the word "FAQ." It implies that people frequently ask questions.  How can people frequently ask questions about something that hasn't been made public yet?

Here are a few anticipated questions instead.

What is ChatJip?

Literally, "chatjip" 찻집 is Korean for "teahouse." It's an English language based portal for news, blogs and community.  It collects news from Korea related news sources and blogs and connects people who live in Korea.

Can't I just use Facebook?

No one is suggesting you give up Facebook.  That's why ChatJip can plug into your Facebook account.  Yet it's likely you're in a Facebook network that makes it difficult for you to connect with people locally.  It's especially useful if you're new in town and want to find others closeby to share a meal or have a drink.

What about the front page?

The top has rotating stories that the editors choose as the most significant.  To the right is a list of the latest published stories.  A tab on the left mentioning "tweets" shows the latest from KingSejong's Twitter feed, which scours the web for interesting articles.  The boxes under the news rotator are the sections.  You can choose how many headlines you want to see by clicking one of the numbers next to the section title.  You can also move and rearrange the order of the sections by "grabbing" the tabs on the right.

Do I need to live in Korea to join?

Of course not.  Any interest in Korea is good enough reason.

What's the connection to ZenKimchi?

This is the next generation for ZenKimchi.com's "News & Blogs," which was started in early 2007.  The original ZenKimchi blog is tucked in there under the "Big Blog" section.  The entire layout and inner workings were built by ZenKimchi's Joe McPherson using Joomla, based on the TerranTribune template.

Why don't you carry full articles?

Actually, we do carry full articles in the Big Blog.  Since the other content comes from other sites, we felt it was ethically dubious to pull in complete articles from other sties, stealing their content and revenue.  We are a guidepost to send you to great sites and articles.

Explain the forum ranking system.

I'll do my best.  It's loosely based on the office posts of each of the Three Kingdoms, Silla, Baekje and Goguryeo as outlined in Lee Ki-baek's A New History of Korea.  The English version of the text doesn't include the hangeul script, so some guesswork was involved in that department.  The more you post, the higher you climb in rank.  There are four star colors.  In order, they are blue, gray, green, red and yellow.  Each color has ten ranks.

Someone's not behaving civilized in the forum.

Tattletale!  No, honestly, please report anyone who is violating the forum rules by clicking on the "!" icon on the offensive post.

Why isn't my blog on Chatjip?

It's most likely because it hasn't been brought to our attention.  Please tell us about it, and we'll review it.  We do have some loose guidelines on the types of blogs we feature and some suggestions on making your blog more accessible on Chatjip.

• No blogs under three months old unless the prose and potential staying power make it outstanding
• Blogs should fill a niche and try to stick to it
• Blogs should post regularly, especially if they are new
• Outside of K-pop, blogs with too many posts a day overwhelm other blogs on the list
• The writing should be more than mere links
• Brevity is the soul of wit, especially when it comes to post titles.  Large titles overwhelm and will not make it on the news rotator.
• The RSS grabber is set to grab one post per hour.  If you post five in an hour it will only grab one of them.

My blog is in the wrong category.

Bring that to our attention.  We are flexible here and our trying to make our best judgments based on what is already there.  New category ideas are also welcome provided there is enough compelling content.

I found a bug.

I'm sure you did.  Rascally things.  Please report it in the forum.

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Each year the discussion grows and grows. The expat community is now larger than it has ever been in Korea. The attempts to organize are having more sticking power than before. Hagwon associations and Anti-English Spectrum are organized against the English teachers, whether they know or care about it. They have the ear of a media echo chamber that paints all foreigners the same color.

Why should you care?

From Roboseyo
On Ugly English Teachers and Racist English Teachers: Let's not all Crap our Pants Now: Intro
Part 1: But You're TEACHERS!
An Open Letter to new English Teachers in Korea
Part 2: Why, Yes, Korea DOES have a Batshit Media! Why do you ask?
Part 3: Yeah, Some Self-Reflection Is Called For, but not From You, Ms. Choi
Part 4: Racism, Culture-shock, Acclimation and Integration in Minjokland
Part 5: The PR Campaign: 'Seyo's Marching Orders

From Chris in South Korea
On community and the difficulty of forming one - in two words

From The Expat
A question for K-bloggers: Is it time to organize?

Organizations
Association for Teachers of English in Korea
The Association of F-class Expatriates within Korea
Korean Media Watch

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The Korea Herald has a story about a documentary coming out.  It explores the loss and separation felt by birth mothers and adoptees.  Read more about it here.

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