Headline July 18, 2018/ " 'SOUTH KOREA'S SIRENS' '"

"' SOUTH KOREA'S SIRENS '''

ONLY AFTER 2007, when the United Nations urged South Koreans to stop promoting this racist  notion did the school curriculum change.

The outrage triggered by the arrival of a small number of Yemeni  refugees in the country shows the  depth of Xenophobia...........

PERHAPS - PERHAPS - perhaps a great question to ask South Koreans who seem to be devoid of any compassion would be this :
How would they expect other countries to treat South Korean refugees in the event of a war with  North Korea?.

"HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY ask our children to love this world if we discriminate against other races, other nations, and other religions?" said Jung Woosung -

A South Korean actor and good will ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency, at a public forum on Wednesday last.

JEJU IS A visa free zone for tourists from most countries. When pressed on the issue of Yemeni refugees, a president spokesperson told journalists on June 20 that-

Yemen has been added to the list of countries whose citizens cannot enter without a visa.

On June 29, the Justice Ministry announced that it was deploying more personnel to expedite the processing of Yemeni asylum seekers, presumably to expel them sooner.

The ministry will also push for an overhaul of the Refugee Act, to prevent foreigners from "taking advantage of the refugee system for economic reasons or residency.

Not all South Koreans are bigots. polling data from June 20 showed that 39 percent supported accepting Yemeni refugees, while some 49 percent were opposed. There are also several high profile voices of reason

With interracial marriages increasing, especially between South Korean men and women from other parts of Asia, the government has promoted the idea of damunhwa - literally '' multiculturalism."

But it's defined as foreigners marrying South Korean citizens, so the damunhwa paradigm promotes little tolerance for other type of foreigners seeking to stay here long term.

The arrival of the Yemeni coincides with a worsening climate of hate. Misogyny has been on the rise, partly in reaction to a women's more forceful demands for gender equality.

The powerful Evangelical lobby and its political allies spread Islamophobia by claiming that "we, too, might become a Muslim state."

The same Christian alliance has also been active in the persecution of South Korea's L.G.B.T  community, which had never widely embraced to begin with.

It would only be right for the Moon administration to take the moral high ground and put an end to this nonsense, but there is little reason for hope.

Mr. Moon, who once worked as a human right lawyer, didn't hesitate to say that he opposed to homosexuality during a televised presidential debate a year ago, showing a lack of sympathy for minorities.

PERHAPS, PERHAPS, perhaps a better question to ask those South Koreans who seem to devoid of  compassion would be this :

How would you expect other countries to treat South Korean refugees in the event of a war with North Korea?

With most respectful dedication for this brilliant, analytical work to author and researcher Se-Woong Koo, the masterly publisher of the online magazine Korea Expose and then the Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.

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