By That is how the Chosun Ilbo sums up this article:
A police crackdown that ended early this month led to the arrest of 1,249 foreigners and 79 indictments. Most cases involved extortion and violence. And the foreign gangs are seeking to join hands with organized Korean crime. It is only a matter of time before they expand their reach into Korean society. The country needs to think twice about welcoming foreigners without proper screening. There has to be a system of background checks and records of visitors. Without it, Korea could be headed toward a dangerous future. [Chosun Ilbo]
Like Robert Koehler, I do love the above graphic that the Chosun Ilbo included with the article. Do these guys look like any of you ROK Heads out there?
6:18 pm on May 23rd, 2011 1
The one on the right might be Tom.
7:15 pm on May 23rd, 2011 2
I thought you had to be Korean to be admitted into the Korean cheobal owned criminal family’s?
7:57 pm on May 23rd, 2011 3
Korean gangsters follow certain Korean social rules that are understood by all Koreans.
Most Korean gangsters are businessmen first and gangsters second… meaning they run the necessary (?) businesses that are “illegal”… prostitution, loan sharking, gambling, drug distribution, etc.
But it is rare for their actions to affect those not involved with their services.
And there is a restriction on the level of violence allowed between gangs… mostly taking sticks and breaking everything in the other gang’s office when they aren’t there.
Foreign gangs don’t always have these self-controls which are necessary for the government and society to tolerate their existence.
One can see this in America where increasingly violent Hispanic gangs are increasingly affecting the quality of life for all Americans… from grafitti to neighborhoods where it is unsafe to go to random killings because one is wearing the wrong colors.
Unlike America, Korea must keep these people out and must crush any possibility of these foreign gangs before they become a problem.
8:50 pm on May 23rd, 2011 4
Oh, no! It’s Devo!
Leon LaPorte wrote:
Ohmigod! He really is in South Korea!
9:32 pm on May 23rd, 2011 5
I like the graphic. It’s… Cute.
10:51 pm on May 23rd, 2011 6
Possible identification…
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zow0NKUTtjI/TEL7VtOCDVI/AAAAAAAACg0/d6x7HNbqN5g/s1600/the_police-600.jpg
3:34 am on May 24th, 2011 7
The one on right is vietnamese, the one in the middle is french and the one on the left is either persian or egyption. You can tell by their hats. Gives them all away everytime. Also the french guy has a shitty beard. They cant’t be american or canadian because they are all too skinny. Got to love sterotypes!
4:04 am on May 24th, 2011 8
The X-pat Files: Trust No One
4:32 am on May 24th, 2011 9
Although I would include the ESL fraudsters and gangsters into this mix, it’s mostly about Asian gangs from Vietnamese and Chinese and Pakistanis that this article is targeting.
You guys are so sensitive when it comes to the word “foreigners”. Oh my god, it must be so racist to single out what is true when you use the word foreigner.
How dare they use this word (even if it’s true). Nevermind the fact that it ain’t about the French or the Egyptions. sob sob sob, white anger, phony white indignity, and more white anger.
You see, Koreans are smart. We don’t want our land to turn into be multicultural sh*tholes that you guys have built yourselves and are so proud of. Look at your filth that has been washed ashore that you guys have encouraged and grew.
Do you have a problem with Koreans not wanting that? In Korea, the society is still intact (although under pressure and under attack from the same ideology that you guys are trying to propagate), things still work, and we don’t have to deal with graffities and drive by shootings.
Now it all comes back to you guys again. The true gangsters are you. Yes you white people. You’ve ruined your own societies, that’s not enough and so you want to destroy Korean society by pushing and encouraging multicultural crimes. You guys are like bacteria that spreads its liberal ideology that will doom Korea.
4:58 am on May 24th, 2011 10
Kimchi power!
5:05 am on May 24th, 2011 11
Proxy Tom wrote
This rant brought to you by a self-proclaimed Korean citizen living in Canada.
5:12 am on May 24th, 2011 12
No I am not living in Canada. At least I won’t end up like you, with someone contacting your Sogang university in the 1990′s to complain about you.
5:42 am on May 24th, 2011 13
E-2 teachers are being properly screened. So who is being allowed into Korea without background or health checks or even proof of employment? Female “entertainers”, Nigerians, Russians, and anyone else who wants to hang out in Korea. But no one can claim that E2 teachers are not being checked.
5:45 am on May 24th, 2011 14
Wanna join a street gang in Korea? Wanna be a prostitute? Have no job? Don’t know anyone? Want to just hang out in Korea? Say you come from a middle eastern terrorist country? Korean Immigration doesn’t care. You can do anything you want. Want to legally teach? Get ready for Immigration to check everything with a fine comb.
8:30 am on May 24th, 2011 15
Yeah.
WTF is up with Nigeria?
Whenever the term Shytbag Criminal comes up, Nigeria is always there at the top of the list… in America, in Europe, in Korea, on the Internet… and even IN Nigeria.
Man, we gotta nuke that shythole from orbit and put a bounty on all the ones who get away.
Does anybody here have any experience
9:36 am on May 24th, 2011 16
I had a African-American coworker, I mean real African-American, meaning he was born in Africa and had immigrated to US as young teen. I remember him telling me Nigerian had so many criminal gangs etc. Pretty sure he was it was Nigeria.
1:13 pm on May 24th, 2011 17
Ha Ha Ha!!! Good ol’ Tom!!
So tell me Tom…if Koreans are so smart…and don’t want “our land to turn into a multicultural sh!thole” why did they kill tens of thousands of female fetuses back in the 1980s…making it so half the Korean guys living in the country have no choice but to marry foreign girls from poor countries??
Idiot.
You already have a multicultural sh!thole in Korea — and it’s of your own making…achieved by murdering tens of thousands of Korean babies for the simple fact that they were female.
2:58 pm on May 24th, 2011 18
Guitard!
Stop attacking the globally handi-capped with universal logic! Other sources claim that the genders are equal in numbers. But, for some strange reason, foriegn wives are still being imported like stinky cheese. I’ve even heard rumors that foriegn men are married to Korean females and are living in S. Korea as married couples. Can anyone verify this phenomena? Provide a link?
4:11 pm on May 24th, 2011 19
Look at the 6th grade yearbook of any Korean kid born in the 1980s and check the ratio of male students to female students. You will be very hard pressed to find any class that has more females than males. When I looked at my nephew’s 6th grade yearbook (where each of the eight 6th grade classes had exactly 40 students), there were only two ratios: 23 males/17 females or 22 males/18 females.
And now the by-product for the “smart” Koreans, as Tom likes to describe them, is having to ship in thousands of mail order bribes from the Philippines, China, and Viet Nam.
4:45 pm on May 24th, 2011 20
The one in the middle is son of english teacher and g.i.
4:45 pm on May 24th, 2011 21
@John 16: Kinda off topic but I too had an African-American coworker, I mean real African-American, meaning he was born in Africa and had immigrated to US. He was not allowed to check the box which read “African-American” because he was white. I always thought that unfair and perhaps, dare I say, racist.
/He also didn’t care for Nigerians.
//It would be easier to refer to people as white or black
///That’s what I do
////slashie!
8:23 pm on May 24th, 2011 22
Its for this reason that I’ve started checking “Other” and writing in “European-American”, just to f*ck with people. I’m really getting tired of all the protected status’s going around, it seems anyone who can make a claim of not being “white” can get something these days.
9:18 pm on May 24th, 2011 23
Many mentally ill foreigners move to Korea thinking that they can leave their mental problems behind them. The problem is that they bring their mental illness with them. They don’t escape from it.
1:32 am on May 25th, 2011 24
“Many mentally ill foreigners move to Korea thinking that they can leave their mental problems behind them. The problem is that they bring their mental illness with them. They don’t escape from it.”
what’s even more incredible, these individuals blend right in with the masses. They don’t even miss a beat. In most cases, likeness’ attract and the nuclear force in the Hermit Kingdom can’t hold a series of floodlights to any other natural force in the universe.
Sincerely,
Mentally Ill
2:22 am on May 25th, 2011 25
The one in the middle is Laurence Fishburne.
5:16 am on May 25th, 2011 26
I thought foreigners arrived normal but became mentally after spending too much time here.
5:20 am on May 25th, 2011 27
Once more,
I thought foreigners arrived normal but became mentally ill after spending too much time here.
5:40 am on May 25th, 2011 28
Some foreigners arrive ill but get cured!
…yellow fever, in my case.
8:20 am on May 25th, 2011 29
Tom’s proxy is in Korea.
See, when I type in my IP address and add the search term proxy with it. I get:
“Your search – 211.192.xx.xx proxy – did not match any documents.”
When I type in Tom’s (as he requested), I get the standard google return of reams and reams of links listing that IP as a transparent proxy.
When I do a search without proxy, I get the note I posted a couple of days ago where that IP is listed as a spammer proxy.
Tom, now that you have found out about proxies and then came here and called yourself out, I guess thinking nobody would do more than the very barest of checks, —- even if you do move back to Korea and post a real IP, nobody is going to believe it. (Boy who cried wolf type of stuff).
- I don’t remember you ever said at what age you were sent abroad for your education, though it was before adulthood (college). But the facts as I’ve read you state them are – you have likely spent as many (or more) years of your life in Canada as in South Korea. In terms of your adult life, I know I have spent 2 to 4 X the number of years living in Korea than you.
There is nothing wrong with any of this — except how you keep thumping your chest as the quentissential Korean and talking as if you are currently living in Korea and have been most of your life.
In short, I point this stuff out because — you constantly misrepresent yourself on this site and do so as a way to bash foreigners who have spent more time and energy making a life for themselves in the country you have chosen to live away from…
10:12 am on May 25th, 2011 30
Beware of foreign criminals in Korea?
Wow, you’d think some foreigner went out and mudered 32 Koreans in cold blood or something.
11:38 am on May 25th, 2011 31
USinKorea, Kushibo,
Tom left Korea long ago.
His actual memories of places, events, and trends, in Korea are those of a child… and his current concepts of “Korea” are based on the wishful visions of an ideal homeland found in lower-class and unassimilated ethnic communities clinging to a fragile pride and longing for identity.
He arrived in the West when he was too old to perfectly master English… probably 4th to 6th grade.
He got teased for his look and accent… “ching chong ding dong” kind of stuff… and developed a reasonable hatred for whitey… especially as whitey goes to Korea and gets treated respectfully. And that IS unjust.
He is socially awkward and doesn’t do well with women… even Asian women. Racism plays less of a part in this than the angry vibe he puts off… and not the cool badboy angry vibe… but the frustrated angry vibe of one who knows they are smart enough to succeed but can’t quite grasp why they don’t… and blames everyone else for their constant social failures.
Tom may be a student. Or he may be washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant… scraping the remains of egg foo young slime off oily plates while gazing at the chipped tile wall in front of him and plotting of all the ways whitey will pay when he is rich and powerful…
…but, for now, he is just powerful… as his simple sentences are skillfully constructed to irritate and agitate… and to provoke so many bitter and indignant reactions among the easily-manipulated whities.
1:05 pm on May 25th, 2011 32
#31, I think you’re overestimating him…
4:53 pm on May 25th, 2011 33
ChickenHead 31, fourth to sixth grade kids master the language. Tom was probably fourteen or older when he moved to Canada.
Now, is Tom just one person? Does he write his own comments, or is someone with an ulterior motive helping him?
In any case, I want Tom to remember this: I like him.
6:38 pm on May 25th, 2011 34
33 I don’t know. I’ve met a few kyopos who moved to the US or Canada in the middle of elementary school. Most were not fully fluent. You had to spend more than passing time talking to them, but the patterns in gaps of usage were eventually noticeable – especially when moving beyond surface, everyday conversation. This was regardless of the education level they eventually obtained.
I think full fluency is more common when they move in K or 1st or 2nd grade.
Even then, it depends on their environment – do they live in Korea Town? where they will hear and use their native language outside of the home? Are there a significant number of Korean-speakers in the school?
I’ve seen this with the Hispanic students I teach in the US too.
After awhile, you can get an idea of a person’s background just by seeing them use English for a little while.
From having read Tom over the years, I think Chickenhead’s guess on the time frame is probably correct.
On liking Tom, you’re very magnanimous. (I have a harder time with bigots.)
8:28 pm on May 25th, 2011 35
But anyhow, Chickenhead was right.. well only the couple of sections of his post. I first arrived in the new world in my fourth grade, then back and forth throughout the years later.
And yes, fat ugly white kids called me ching chong chang.. but not just white kids, but also white adults as well. 
As for the other parts, that’s real funny, but they’re not true. 
What’s even funnier is USinKorea’s comment:
“I have a harder time with bigots”
Pot calling the kettle black. Didn’t you have an anti Korean hate website urging Americans to boycott Koreans? The hypocrite that you are, you ended up in Korea to get paid by Koreans. So much for your boycott. You’re not doing what you preached. Not only that, you’ve erased your web site.
My purpose on here is to help you guys to see the truth. I am here for you guys. You can count on me.
9:44 pm on May 25th, 2011 36
As stated already, how much time you have spent inside Korea and Korean society is key to evaluating the bulk you have contributed to this site over the years. It’s simple: You lie. Deceive.
You portray yourself as a Korean’s Korean. THE Korean. The voice of Koreans – when the bulk of the memories you retain as an adult are of Canada.
You left Korea around age 9. You’re in your late 20s or early 30s. Add 2 years of military service. That means you’ve spent more time in your life outside of Korea than in it. As a young adult and adult (thus a more logically brained person), you’ve spent hardly any time in Korea at all…
But for years, you have constantly bad mouthed foreigners living in Korea – and bad mouthed the societies they come from – misrepresenting yourself as the prototypical Korean’s Korean…
In short, you’re full of crap.
And I’m thankful you don’t represent what the bulk of Koreans are like.
AANNNT….
Never called for a boycott of Korea. You had to make that one up to justify the hypocrite charge.
And as I’ve stated before when you’ve tried to liken my site’s detailing of anti-US/USFK culture in Korea to your own ethnic bigotry, my site focused on one aspect of Korean society that I did hate. In fact, I frequently pointed that out when I was writing posts for it.
I’ll put my record up beside yours any time…
(So, are you off telling people you are currently living in Korea?)
10:05 pm on May 25th, 2011 37
Tom makes sense. It seems like a lot of people are too much of LBH to accept that they lost the debate.
10:32 pm on May 25th, 2011 38
How about this, Glans…
A search for the first IP pulls up a ton of pages marking it as a proxy and a spammer location out of Korea.
A search for the second pulls up only 2 pages of generic lists of IPs – and the IP is out of Canada.
The posts are from the same day…
2:46 am on May 26th, 2011 39
“Some foreigners arrive ill but get cured!
…yellow fever, in my case.”
This illness inflammed every other illness I brought with me. Now, I combined them all and labeled the amalgam; “normality”. Feels good to be normal again.
3:30 am on May 26th, 2011 40
Tom is an international man of mystery. Just the kind of guy who could give a meaningful answer to this question:
What should ROK do about DPRK?