By As long as she doesn’t sleep in her squad car she will be an improvement over many other Korean cops:
Anabelle Castro, a native of Pangasinan, became the second naturalized Korean citizen to join the ranks of South Korean police officers in what some local media outlets reported as an indication of South Korea’s greater openness towards foreigners.
Anabelle made me realize two things: that it’s possible for a non-Korean born Korean to work for the government and that her age (41) didn’t matter when she entered the police force.
Anabel Castro was born in the Philippines in 1968 in San Carlos, Pangasinan. She married her Korean husband in 1997 and has three kids with him, two sons and a daughter. She entered National Central Police Academy and graduated on July 25, 2008. [Asian Offbeat]
7:11 pm on December 8th, 2009 1
Good for her, altho I don’t believe two out of ‘thousands’ of police officers signals any change other than a breaking of previous barriers. I suppose that in itself is a dramatic change.
Hope she does well. Any word on exactly what she will be doing?
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December 8th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
I agree, it is good for her. Its interesting, I also know a guy from Turkey who got his Korean citizenship and is a reserve police officer.
I about freaked out the first time I saw him in his cop dress uniform (he was attending some function). He may have beat her over all but she is the first foreign born, full time cop I have heard of, though I suppose there could be others.
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December 9th, 2009 at 9:48 am
According to the rest of the article she works at the Wongok Special Public Security Center for Foreigners in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province. She probably does translation work dealing with the Filipinos that work in the many factories there I assume.
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1:58 am on December 9th, 2009 2
She’ll be a part of the Juicy Girl Task Force busting GIs.
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December 9th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Or quickly learn how to sleep in a patrol car so she doesn’t upset the normal routine.
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December 9th, 2009 at 5:10 am
I suspect she will be like many of the females in the ROK army and be assigned desk work or other administrative duties. But who knows, they might just use her skills. There are a large number of Filipinos in Korea. I could see where she might be useful.
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December 9th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Have you ever heard of the ROK SF women’s unit? It’s crazy.
December 12th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
RACIST MUCH EH?
I think Koreans are ugly, rude people. Your breath is so smelly. Your food is disgusting. Your Wonder Girls sound like chipmunks.
Everyone here in the US and Europe hates you. Filipinos are the richest Asian in the United States. They are gentle, good hearted people ready to help anyone. If I have to live with an Asian person in a Survivor Island, I would want to live with a filipino asian.
December 12th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
MARGE, I take it you haven’t lived in France. The food is much better and their breath doen’t smell, but ‘rude’, ‘arrogant’, ‘ugly’ people. They top the list.
December 13th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Marge, you must be one of the 95% Filipina Juicy Gals in the Korean Clubs.
5:22 am on December 9th, 2009 3
I envy her for learning to speak Korean well enough to become a police officer. Even after DLI and a year as an exchange student, my Korean is still woefully inadequate.
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10:48 am on December 9th, 2009 4
Old news. Yawwwnn..
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5:29 pm on December 9th, 2009 5
As long as she doesn’t sleep in her squad car she will be an improvement over many other Korean cops
Ouch.
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6:03 pm on December 9th, 2009 6
One cop…This is a sign of greater openness to foreigners? Right, whatever. I guess multiculturalism doesn’t mean the same thing in Korea as elsewhere.
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6:08 pm on December 9th, 2009 7
Just out of curiosity, who says multiculturalism is a good thing?
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December 9th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
The United States Army.
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December 9th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Damn you Retired GI. Damn you! This hateful speech should be banned!
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December 9th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Multiculturalism is all fine and well, but the liberal concept of “multiculturalism” is actually monoculturalism in disguise, as its purpose is population replacement.
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December 9th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
“multiculturism” is the antithesous of the “melting pot” that the US used to have.
Instead of one culture made from many, it is now many cultures expected to remain individualistic.
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