tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post7918302435844550582..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Comments and statistics on foreign crimematthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-10316942540566769792013-08-30T11:04:45.572+09:002013-08-30T11:04:45.572+09:00As someone who lived in Songjeong in Gwangsan-gu f...As someone who lived in Songjeong in Gwangsan-gu for two years, it has a very high foreign population compared to your average neighbourhood (still mostly Korean, of course). Very few English speakers, many many underpaid Chinese and Southeast Asian workers for the tire factory or other industrial employers in the area. It's a very interesting place to visit, actually, having an amazing Thai restaurant that is run out of a family's front room, and a lot of small foreign grocery stores; I once had an awkward Korean-as-a-second-language-on-both-sides chat with one of the shopowners about the fresh cilantro I was buying and how Koreans don't like it.<br /><br />I'm not surprised about the crime statistics, sadly. I was followed home a few times while living there, and it had a reputation amongst my coteachers (who all lived in nicer neighborhoods) as a dangerous place. Community volunteer efforts are as good a place as any to start - there's probably a significant number of foreigners working there who don't speak Korean well at all.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08419386021728045147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-67696405477437497352013-08-29T14:33:30.553+09:002013-08-29T14:33:30.553+09:00Yeah, it's funny to see how Korean cabbies rip...Yeah, it's funny to see how Korean cabbies ripping off tourists constitutes a kind of "foreign" or "foreign-related" crime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-36460750673914927272013-08-29T08:55:09.747+09:002013-08-29T08:55:09.747+09:00As usual, when fellow ethnics bring glory to the m...As usual, when fellow ethnics bring glory to the motherland, they are "Korean," but when they are involved in crime, they are undifferentiated "foreigners."<br /><br />I'd like to see a breakdown of these crime sats to identify Korean-Chinese, Korean-Americans and Korean-Russians. I'll bet a large majority of the crimes committed by "Chinese" are in fact Korean-Chinese.<br /><br />To be fair, one younger Korean guy down here in Daegu told me straight up the other day that he considers Korean-Chinese not to be "Korean." So much for minjok brotherhood and solidarity. I wonder how widespread such a sentiment is these days? King Baeksuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15106210206814275410noreply@blogger.com