Survey Says Koreans Discriminate Mostly By Nationality
Here is what a survey of 2,500 foreigners living in Seoul has said about Koreans:
Koreans in Seoul discriminate against foreign residents mainly based on their country of origin, a survey by the Seoul Metropolitan Government showed Tuesday.
Korea Times
Many foreign residents said their image of Seoul had improved, but some still face discrimination and disdain.
The city government announced the results of the survey conducted on 2,500 foreign residents in the capital last September, to reflect the findings in its policies.
According to the survey, 57.3 percent of respondents said Koreans discriminate against foreign nationals based on their nationality. When multiple replies were allowed, 41.5 percent also said discriminative responses took place according to their fluency in Korean, 23.9 percent their financial status, 16.6 percent their jobs, 15.6 percent their appearance including skin color, and 1.1 percent their religion.
You can read more at the link, but none of this seems terribly surprising. I have always told people that if you want to improve your experience living in Korea, try to learn some Korean. For example, being able to exchange pleasantries and order food in Korean will likely greatly enhance the service you receive at a restaurant.
Frankly, I liked the 2016 surveys that said Trump had no path to 270… Folks were talking about that right up to 8:30 Central Time on Election Night.
Those were as meaningful as this one.
Go back to your Confucian relationships diagram. That’s, fortunately or not, how Koreans relate to others (Korean or Waygook).
I agree that learning the language is very important; but I got more trouble from being overweight than being foreign, not speaking much Korean, or anything else. What percentage of those questioned were Japanese, one wonders.
And will the same team be doing the “Let’s Feed Those Friendly Nork Invaders” survey?