What the ... qualification?!?!?

I have to start off with a big thank you to Gusts of Popular Feeling for translating and providing the transcript of Lee Eun-Ung's interview. Enjoyed the post too.

Lee Eun-Ung, stalker of foreigners and founder of the Anti-English Spectrum group, now called The Citizen's Movement To Expel Illegal Teachers of Foreign Languages. (Of course they only seem to be going after those teaching English.)

One of the things that stuck in my craw from the interview is the talk of "unqualified teachers" .

Lee Eun-ung:

That's right. There are qualifications to become an English teacher. Have you studied for 4 years at a university in an English-speaking country? With that simple qualification, many unqualified teachers have had the opportunity to come to Korea.

Eh? Many unqualified teachers have the qualification? I knew the guy was a moron but jeeze. If they have the qualification then they are ... qualified. Just like if you have a habit of saying moronic things you are a moron.

Qualifications, you must have a Bachelor degree. You must come from 1 of 7 countries that are acceptable to Korea. Although that is being altered to allow a few other nationalities in to teach English for less money. You must pass whatever checks and tests that Korea decides to throw at you. If someone is here teaching on an E-2 (or F-2) VISA they are QUALIFIED.

To hear dumbasses like Eun-Ung spout off you would think that most teachers were unqualified. Especially when he makes up statistics. And his interviewer, in a stunning display of the lack of journalistic ability I have come to expect from Korea "media", just laps everything up.

Anchor Seo Du-won:

So a teacher’s criminal record should be accurately confirmed before [deciding] one is qualified enough to be a teacher.

Yeah that is more important than confirming they have a degree or even teaching ability. It is the criminal background check that gives them the ability to teach? This guy must work for the Korea Times in his free time. What a fucking idiot.

Lee Eun-ung:

People who have married Koreans and become the spouse of a citizen. If you look at such cases, it’s extremely difficult to punish and deport such people.

Anchor Seo Du-won:

So in such a case, those who are arrested can in the end only be fined.

Lee Eun-ung:

Yes.

Wow. I never knew that. Extremely difficult to punish and deport? I gotta get me one so I can go back to Korea and start kicking this shit out of assholes like these two twats with impugnity. Or maybe it is because of the use of blood money that it is difficult to "punish" them? You know, pay your way out your crime? Something the Korean variety of rapist will use to get out of trouble or to lessen his sentence. Of course it sounds like so much bull shit.

I love the way Eun-Ung would pull facts and statistics out of his ass and the joke of an interviewer would just accept it all. Oh well, the "interview" lived down to my expectations.

Huffington Post mentions AES

There was an interesting article in the Huffington Post today about South Korea's contradictory, or some might say hypocritical, policies concerning aids.

It seems that Korea has pledged to lift the travel ban on aids infected people but haven't actually passed any legislation that would make it legally binding. Add to that their mandatory aids test for ONLY foreign teachers. One which could soon be expanded to apply to ALL foreign workers in Korea. But not Koreans.

It was also interesting to see Anti-English Spectrum being discussed and exposed as the racist piece of shit we all know it to be.

"Critics of the bill, like Wagner, take issue with its purpose statement that reads, "Nowadays, the number of foreigners working in Korea is increasing, but a good many have previous convictions for drug and sexual crimes or carry infectious diseases." Wagner traces the statement's origin to Anti-English Spectrum's efforts to stigmatize foreigners as AIDS-infected, sexually abusive predators. To this day, no foreigner has ever been found guilty of infecting a Korean child with HIV, and in 2008 the native English teacher crime rate was more than five times lower than the Korean crime rate."

While it is nothing new to those of us in Korea that AES is a racist organization it is nice to see it being exposed more outside of Korea. Especially when you look at the politicians here using their fabricated facts to help make policy.

What the .... Anti-English Spectrum?!?!?

I am surprised that the ricetards at Anti-English Spectrum, or whatever name they are hiding their stalking behind now, haven't picked up on the pictures of that evil white devil Scotty Lagos. The woman who "went down" and kissed his "medal" and also chewed on it was clearly Asian. Maybe even ... Korean.

Mr Yie, or however your surname is really spelled, where is your outrage sir? Clearly by her breast size the woman did not have American Cheeseburger tits. She could have had pure and smaller kimchi boobs. Surely she was drugged and seduced by the dastardly white devil. Why aren't you protecting Korea from white devils like him? Have you been co-opted?

And is Ohno really teaching illegally in Korea as others have tried to prove? Why haven't you spoke out on this issue and had Ohno deported for breaking Korean laws. Sure he is in Canada and not Korea but that has never stopped Korea from imposing it's national laws on people before.

Are you all talk and no action ... oh wait you are a Korean male. Of course you are. My bad.