I'm a black woman and I've been working in Korea for the past two years, and I was also stationed here for a year in 2001 when I was in the Army. Of course I do get the occasional long stares because I keep my hair mostly in long braids, but I have never experienced anything malicious or blatantly racist. One of my Korean co-workers asked me if she could touch my hair, and I told her of course! She was so sweet and genuinely curious. Racism exists all over the world, so please don't let that ever discourage you from traveling to new places. Korea and it's people are truly amazing.
Good for you , you had a great experience but that sadly is not ot the situation for everyone , majority of Koreans are racist due to ignorance and just hate, I realized that Korean’s who are educated about foreigners and travel a lot are different. Koreans even act different towards darker skinned Koreans. The racism is everywhere Statement is not an excuse for them not to be educated. People need to realize their faults and get educated. Nevertheless some Koreans are so sweet .
I've lived in Korea and Japan for 2 years and yes there are racist in Korea and Japan just like there are racists everywhere else in the world. I'm from the South in the US so I grew up around many racists including some of my relatives. I know what real racism looks like. The difference is in Korea, there aren't any violent organized racists groups (i.e., KKK, Neo-Nazis, etc..) physically trying to harm people like there are in the US, Japan and Europe.
@@gametri-eq6lj What are you talking about? I'm from the US and US is one of the most developed countries in the world and it's also one of the most racists countries in the world.
@@zachmiller9189 I meant that in Koreans case it hasn’t been long since they got developed people in the the u.s who are still racist act like it when they feel like they want too and aren’t just ignorant
I had very memorable experience with a grandpa in a train to Nami island. I am from South East Asia country. I travelled there after my dad passed away a week before (my mom told me to still go there because I've bought ticket and she wanted me to cheer up) I was standing on the train, carrying my backpack. This old man (i thought he was about >75 years old) offered me his seat next to him, but i refused because i thought there would be more older people got in the train on the next station. So the train kept running and the empty seat next to him had been seated by another grandpa 😁 suddenly, he poke my shoulder and told me to have a seat with his seat, because he would get off in the next station (using body language). I felt uncomfortable but he said it was okay, so finally i sat there. I thought that grandpa really got off in the next station, but when i looked around, i found out he didn't get off yet, still standing a little bit far from me. He was watching me, too, from where he stood up, so when our eyes met, i helplessly tried to ask him to get his seat back witb body language because i felt guilty, but he tried to convince me that it was okay 😅 he really got off in the next station while waving at me before he departed. As someone who had her father just passed away a week before, i couldn't feel more touched than that 😢
@@maxwellpatra4817 yes, it was 🥰 Before, i always heard stigma that korean elderly try to avoid foreigners. I didn't know if i looked like one of them, i do have a smaller eyes than typical South East Asian but my skin is still darker to be East Asian 😂 and i was with my friend to that wore hijab. After that experience, i really realized that you should experience certain things to proof the stigma is correct or not. Maybe i had better experience but I'm thankful for that till now 😁 it really healed a little bit of my sadness after my father passed away ❤️ But I did see that youngsters didn't care enough about priority seat when i took the train in the city. They tried to avoid any eye contact when elderly got on the train. Well, it happened in busy hours though. But i expected them to give priority seat more in that busy hour because the train was crowded and it was so uncomfortable for elder, but still they tend to ignore 😐 and even for woman, they didn't give seat so yeah i think some Korean men are not as gentlemen as what we watch in K-Drama 😅
@@agritodo Korean men don’t give seat to women, unless she is his girlfriend or wife. If a man gives up seat for a woman, that would be a very strange thing in Korea. She may take it as a weird flirting and offended. Young people are supposed to give up seat for older people, but tbh the young people are also very tired from long hours of work and difficult commute so they just stay their seat. I wonder if you saw young people falling asleep in the train. That happens a lot because everyone is tired. 🥲 I too have experienced older people giving up seats for us when I went around with my white husband. The cultural rule is that young people should give seats to elders, so it’s quite extraordinary, but it did happen several times . Some old people are very sweet and go out of their way to be nice. I heard some foreigners received pocket money as allowance from old people 🤣 Some old people are grumpy and rude to foreigners and young Koreans. We can never expect what kind of old people we may come across 😅
@@yj8641 oh woow, i didn't know before that giving seat to other women except your girlfriend or wife is considered flirting in Korea 😲 thanks for the information 😂 Yeah after i went traveling to another countries, I've seen some cultural difference with mine 😂 Before i thought same Asia countries will held same culture like : elder and lady first. But seems it is not applicable for every country 😂 In my country, it is an act of kindness if you give seat to elders or to give seat to woman (especially pregnant lady) and kids. But in our public transportation we do have special train wagon for ladies and kids. In other wagons, it's mix so yeah currently we can see people who give seat to women or those who choose not to 😂 but most of it, we always give seat to elderly >60 years old or to women with kids and baby 😁 And somehow my country is very welcoming to foreigners (especially to White and Black people, and also East Asians 😁 ). You'll be surprised because you'll feel like celebrity when you walk in public area 😂
I hope you can/did reassure the first lady that if ANY man is bothering or following you, its okay to say and do whatever is needed to make them stop. And not to feel bad about it, either.
For what I have seen on youtube Korean female youtubers, n Korea it seems like Stalking is a thing. Apparently in order for a women to get a restraining order for someone who's stalking them by calling them non stop. She has to answer the phone for if not it won't be consider stalking 😳
It's been improving steadily over the last decade. If anything I'm surprised that Korea isn't more racist with how homogenous it is. The most annoying thing I found in Korea has been systemic racism as the bureaucracy is slow to adapt to foreigners.
It’s not systematic racism. It’s bureaucracy or lack of administrative experience. I’m Korean born and raised, but I’m an American citizen now. Since I came back to Korea, I have a lot of problems with the Korean government offices, banks, phone companies, utility companies, schools, etc. I see a lot of foreigners on street in my neighborhood, which is not a foreigners’ district, so I had assumed, since Korea has very efficient administrations, it would be efficient for me too. But NOooooo 😅. My visa renewal took a long time; my insurance got suspended, and I lost a lot of money; I almost lost power because of electricity bill problem ….. 😂 I have to sit with the banker for at least two hours every time when I go to the banks because they don’t know how to take care of foreigner’s specific business and spend hours calling other specialists to figure out 😂 I even feel bad for them because they struggle so much every time 😂 American government administration is slow and terrible too, but it’s bad for everyone. Korean administration is bad for foreigners because theydon't have much administrative experience and didn't create clear manual yet. I think it will take more time for them to learn and adjust too. My bankers are working faster now, and since we had so many long meetings, I'm friends with bankers now 😂
0:31 yes some people avoid foreigners because they are not confident of their English skill, they can be very anxious about passerby hearing them speak English and get laugh at if they pronounced words wrong or their grammar was incorrect.
In 2023 Korea cannot use the “we’re a homogenous country so….” Too many different cultures are exposed and used in Korea and some are used and saturated in things (music, mannerism, verbiage, etc) Also the word “foreigner” is VERY vague. Each type of foreigner is treated different in Korea. Also there or preferences in Korea.
Exactly!!! They don’t use that “ we are a homogenous country so…” when they knew how to treat white people right who wasn’t even Korean but not others who are a POC. I’m sick of hearing that excuse for last 16years, I understand if it was 2000 but not 2023, sorry, young people have been exposed to TV, social media and tourists, that doesn’t matters if you don’t have foreign friend but just be nice.
@@monsterrr1999 You read my mind. So tired of this lame excuse of homogenous country. Technology advanced but don’t give a s*it about opening themselves towards other cultures. Most of the Koreans admire white people meanwhile look down on dark skin. Filipinos, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesians are so welcoming and don’t have this arrogant attitude.
I would say compared to other European and NA countries, SK is relatively homogeneous in terms of being monoethnic and monocultural. It has been exposed to more foreign cultures for sure, and it has more foreigners living and working in it than ever bf, and this will slowly change their attitudes toward non-Koreans. There will be growing pains just like here in Canada and the US.
@@roar5853There is nothing wrong with that. They chose to stay isolated for a period of time because of other countries trying to invade them. It is better than being diverse due to slavery or colonization.
인종차별 이라는게 그냥 모호한거임 그냥 쳐다봤는데도 인종차별이라고 느끼는 사람이 있고 안 쳐다봤다고 인종차별이라고 느끼는 사람도 있음 예를 들면 " 나를 동물원 원숭이를 보듯이 모두 다 쳐다봤다" 혹은 반대로 " 마치 나를 투명인간 취급 하듯이 쳐다보지도 않았다" 이런 경우들이 있지 심각한 인종 혐오범죄 단체가 나와서 서로 죽고 죽이는게 아닌이상 인종차별으로 그만 떠들어라 오히려 전혀 무관한 사람들만 서로 불편해진다 시간이 차차 해결해주겠찌
I’ve interacted with Koreans and they are racists especially to South East Asian. This is more evident especially now that Korea is becoming famous via Kpop / Kdrama with its soft power and many of its citizens are now having this superiority complex feeling.
@@kamalaroyale790 same goes for me on my end, I've faced middle east, south east Asians, they were very rude and careless. But I do not judge it as the country is racist or what ever. It's really, just matter of people. There are good people and bad people in every country. I hope you face some good koreans one day that you get away with these negativity. Negativity only create bigger negativity just like you faced racism from them that you have hate on them.
I've experienced a lot of kindness and acceptance since my family moved to South Korea earlier this year. And learning the language has helped to an extent. Korea feels like home, especially for my kids. Yes, the bus experience happens often, but I sit with Koreans when I get a chance. I loved the honesty of every speaker. Nothing is black and white. People are different, and they have different reasons for how they treat other people. I love being in South Korea. Another great one, @KExplorer. 🎉🎉
I live in Sweden permanently, Filipino-born and takes buses at all time. The locals avoid sitting with foreigners on the bus. The elderlies here are often very prejudistic of immigrants. But let me tell you that many childless couples here adopts Korean babies.
Short answer - of course they do. When practically 100% of people look like each other and you have little contact with others for centuries - you tend to have an elevated sense of your superiority.
@@Sunshine-zi4nq You don't know kuch about Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has dozens of ethnic groups with different languages and customs living in close proximity. Diversity and multiple cultures are the norm there.
@@vmoses1979 my point is wherever you go people have different perceptions of what is " attractive". FYI I have heard Africans make comments abt Asian eyes. Westerners too. To them Oriental eyes ( East Asian) are unattractive. Its ok, we all have our own perceptions abt Beauty but just treat everyone with respect.
Love to see genuine Content, I have to start working on my Korean communication skills. Keep pushing good Concepts and local perspective information! Keep Going Up‼️
I’ve been to Seoul recently and some old ladies pulled their masks up when they saw me. I’m American but of Chinese descent so maybe they thought I was a COVID threat 😅😅. I also have a bald head so maybe people thought I was U.S. military and tried to avoid me. But I had some friendly experiences with old men for some reason. One time someone got up from their seat on the metro when they reached their stop. I was standing next to it but did not sit down and let the old man take it instead. When he got off at his stop he thanked me and offered me the seat. Another time, I went to JJimjilbang and an older man asked me to help take his bandaids off on his back from acupuncture I assume. He was also nice and thanked me.
I (Korean) probably could not tell if you are Chinese or Korean. The grandmas, I believe, could not tell it either, unless they heard you speak Chinese.
@jeanger8733 hmm maybe they knew i was American then. Actually i went into a Daiso and one of the ladies working there seemed annoyed that i couldnt speak Korean. Maybe they thought i was gyopo.
I have wanted to travel to Korea for so long and I've been terrified of the thought of sticking out like a sore thumb, stares or discrimination 😔 this was a good insightful video.
Watch the interviews with black people actually living in Korea. I found that a lot of people who criticize racism and colorism never even visited Korea. It's not worse than any other countries. If you survive in the US, you are fine in Korea. You will be treated nicely by most people. They may be afraid of you and avoid you though because they are afraid of speaking English😅
Oh, by the way, they will stare at you 🥲 they are not familiar with black people or foreigners, so especially old people and children will stare at you, out of curiosity. If you can smile at them and say hi, they may sum up the courage to talk to you too. I don't know if you want to talk to locals. If you are shy, you may not like the stares, but extrovert foreigners use that as opportunity to talk 😅
Discrimination is not exclusively racial, as we know a lot of times ha stop do with money, rich or poor.. No matter the color, no matter the country. So if you discriminate or if you are racist are different questions
@@jiminswriter4209 they excuses like : they just need get to know the "foreigner" obviously if you not white or european you are a threat and needed to "get to know "
It’s interesting how Koreans are constantly being criticized and stereotyped as if racism and xenophobia isn’t endemic in every single country around the world. There is almost a gleeful quality to demonizing Korean people, especially by certain insecure people who come from countries where colorism and xenophobia are deeply embedded in their own cultures.
Yup. I have never seen such vicious fandom in any country. Even fans of American and Japanese cultures, which are more famous than Korean ones, are not this distorted. Don't get me wrong. I am the one arguing ignorant Korean people in this comment section. But still I don't like the CROWD surrounding them.
But Korea is one of the various countries prominently known for being extremely colorist and that leads to greater race issues as well… don’t be oblivious
Regarding the story of the US immigration office. I’m not going to discredit her but that’s a universal experience. For some reason anyone who works for the DMV and immigration are just the most put out/ rude people there are. I think most Americans will agree . Idk if its just because they deal with unprepared ppl, long hours or argumentative people. I dread going into the DMV for this reason alone.
The DMV and the immigration officers in the US I met were not rude, luckily for me, but it took too much time! It seems that They don’t have enough officers so it delays the process too much! I requested a simple document to the US immigration office, and I had to pay $500 and had to wait for a year to get the document! I got the same kind of document from the Korean government in 10min. And paid $1. For me, Korean government and immigration officers were nice, but it seems each officer wants different things, and sometimes their requirements don’t make sense. It seems they don’t have much experience yet and still have to work on developing the manual. It's very confusing for me (and they are confused) and sometimes costly 😭
@@yj8641 yeah both immigrations and the dmv are an absolute headache to deal with. On top of most ppl being rude they can’t agree on what you need and get mad if you don’t have everything.
I would argue that the title of this video is itself racist. A less horrible title would have been “does racism exist in Korea?” The whole all Koreans are racist is a hateful, ignorant headline that attracts the worst people to lie or embellish whatever perceived slights they either actually encountered or are just making up.
Maybe the older Koreans who haven’t been abroad or exposed to different cultures would, but the younger Koreans seem very accepting of foreigners and different cultures. Nowadays you see so many Koreans dating and marrying outside of their race and going abroad experiencing and embracing so many different cultures. It seems most of South Korea has really embraced diversity now.
@@monsterrr1999Yes and it definitely depends on the person. I had a classmate that was a bit open to friendship but when it came to marriage, she strictly only wanted Koreans. She returned to Korea and married a Korean guy and has 2 kids now. Many young Koreans are racist too but overall, they are a bit better than older Koreans.
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj I am not talking about relationships but friendships or just meeting people in general. They tends to know how to treat white people right though.
@@monsterrr1999yes it depends on your skin color. The darker you are the more potential discrimination. This even goes for south/southeast Asians not just black
해외경험이 거의 없는 사람들은 인종차별하는 것 같아요. 당연히 그것도 사람 나름이지만요. 저는 캐나다랑 호주에서 살면서 언어차별과 인종차별을 당해봐서 차별 당하는 사람들이 얼마나 화가 날지 이해합니다. 한국 돌아와서 한국에 사는 외국인들의 마음을 더 이해하게 되었어요. 한국에도 분명 인종차별이 있고 저는 해외에서 당했던 사람으로써 그런 사람들을 너무 싫어합니다. 저는 그래서 어느나라에서 왔건 잘 사던 못 살던 상관없이 잘 해주려는게 있는 것 같아요. 차별은 차별을 낳는 것 같은데 어느나라던 차별은 존재하지만 배운 사람들은 차별하지 않는다는 것이 팩트. 앞으로 다름의 아름다움을 아는 대한민국이 되기를 바랍니다.
Exactly what i said to some Koreans here , the nice Korean’s i met were those who either travel overseas or have education on how to treat foreigners. Well said
@@user-bn3cn1xb4b 저도 남탓하는 한국종톡 너무 인정합니다. 저는 안 그런다는 아니꼬운 시선으로 말하는거 알아요. 저도 경험이 없을때는 무의식적으로 저도 남탓하고 차별했을거라 생각해요. 지금은 안그러랴고 의식적으로 노력하고 안그러게된 것 같아요. 나 또한 그런 사람임을 인정하고 바라보고 고치려한다면 분명 바뀌실 수 있을거에요.
yes, there is. place like japan and korea, where there's mostly just koreans and japanese. as country don't grow up with foriegners. still got lots of stereotype about other race peoples and stuff, for sure. or at least, korean has strong identity as a 'korean' it's not about they hate forgiener, it's just they have strong configurations so discrimination comes naturally after.
Nope! By the looks of it you’re an anglo saxon European “white” woman. Koreans have a “fear of the sun” culture there so they love people like that who also look like they fear the sun lol
@user-dk9xr4ry3w oh i understand you, a aunty of mine says that she dont like sitting close to koreans when is summer and she have to take the train close to Koreatown because of work, the strong smell of onion/ garlic/kimchi that koreans have in their body is what she thinks is really powerfull
Well, I’m ahjumma so I’m fearless 😅 I don’t avoid sitting next to foreigners because I lived in the US for long time and foreigners are familiar to me. On the other hand, I don’t sit next to older Korean men. It’s just uncomfortable. I don’t know why 😅. I don’t hate men 😂. So I understand when Koreans avoid sitting next to foreigners, or avoid being near foreigners. It’s just uncomfortable to them because they are not familiar with different people. It’s kind of Korean way of shyness, not hatred or racism. On the other hand, some old Koreans give seats to foreigners. Koreans’ behavior to foreigners are quite unpredictable and unreasonable. They can be cold or rude, or super friendly, depending on the situation and the individuals. A lot of uncomfortable situations for foreign tourists are due to erratic behaviors of Koreans around unfamiliar people, not racism. Yes there is racism or discrimination towards foreign labor workers in Korea 😢
So if your reason to come to Korea is spend money by study or vacation you won’t feel discrimination but if you are looking for employment you’re screwed,🤣
I experienced discrimination when studying there. My friend who was whiter skin than me was better treated in many places we visited, since then I just wanted to escape from there. Outside I was focused on my duties, inside I was screaming of disappointment in Korea
@@Nicki-jk9ththe only way to change this is to start to educate these people about MELANIN. And how the SUN is HEALTHY for human beings….it seems they have created a culture of FEAR of the sun and that has created contempt for those who LIVE in countries where the sun shines often. Again, just on a health and scientific level, sunlight and melanin are ALSO a sign of GOOD health….meanwhile they think the opposite….
I was in KOrea for 12 years and have traveled 80 countries. Racism in Korea is very high. I was attacked by three Korean men and two of them went to jail. Koreans refused to believe it even when I showed the court papers. The newspaper refused to cover the story.
My men I am a black dominican.. and most dominican don t sit besides foreigneers(Asian, Black or White). why? I think is a sign of respect or we feel uncomfortable.. I don t know..but, we love foreigneers
Younger koreans are racist too. I've stayed in korea for several months, and many times I was treated as an idiot by people my age, whether it was in school or in shops. I could also 100% feel when koreans felt uncomfortable having to sit next to me in the bus (not everyone, but this is definitely something you can feel). My friends who travelled there also experienced racism by other young people in their 20s or 30s.
Lol the younger ones are extremely racist too! You have very few that are kind and loving towards all human beings. Majority of the time they only want to relate with POC to party and experience entertainment. They don’t consider you to be anything other than a good time. It’s very sad.
@@camfreed9829 the definition of "white " is different in the world, not to mention that asians like koreans have obsesion with being white pale skinned and some of them are white pale skinned natural,so classifying as POC is kinda of weird,for them a POC is somebody like a thai person or and indian because most of them have dark brown skin.
Are there Koreans that are racist and discriminate on that basis? Certainly. Just as there are Koreans who aren't and don't. Korea, not unlike Japan, China, India and many other places in Asia, has a storied history with "colorism" and glorifying and romanticizing lighter, paler skin and features while shunning darker skin and features. Much of the descrimination black American people or darker skinned people from places like Cambodia, Sri Lanka or African countries have experienced in those countries can often be traced to inhibitions and beliefs linked to colorism.
Just wanted to give some background context to why Koreans like white people. America 🇺🇸 came and saved S.Korea from N.Korea during the Battle of Incheon in the Korean War. That key battle, if not won by General MacArthur and Americans (who were mostly white back in the 50s), would’ve lost S.Korea and made the entire country communist. So S.Koreans have naturally favored Westerners/white people.
we learned from history to not trust other races because they take advantage(japan ocupation,korean war), therefore many older generations understand this because of the past, so the suspicion is there, the new generations are more open because they cannot relate to the past due to american influence, interent, society etc. this new generation is evolving to compete w other societies because of that. Many older koreans do discriminate, younger gens dont. is it right? no. how can it be fixed? hard question to answer.
한국 사람들은 인종차별은 하지 않아요. 나라 차별은 합니다. 역사 및 지리적인 문제로 중국, 일본을 좋아하지 않아요. 2000년대 초반부터는 나이 많은 한국 남자에게 베트남과 캄보디아, 필리핀의 젊은 여자들이 돈을 받고 결혼을 하기 시작했어요. 그들은 한국에 와서도 다문화 가정이라 불리며 대체로 가난하게 사는 경우가 많고 한국말도 잘 못해서 아이들 사이에서는 차별을 당했어요. 슬슬 동남아시아를 무시하는 경향이 생깁니다. 그 나라에 대한 인식이 안좋은거지 막상 그 나라의 사람을 만나면 친절하게 대해줍니다. 지하철에서 외국인 옆에 앉지 않는 이유는.. 덩치가 너무커요. 옆에 앉으면 의자가 좁고 어깨가 너무 많이 넘어와 불편합니다. 또 한번은 옆에 앉을려고 봤는데 온몸에 땀을 너무 많이 흘리고 있었어요. 옆에 앉기 찝찝했지만 앉았습니다. 외국인이라서 앉지 않는건 아니에요. 사이즈가 작고, 땀을 흘리지 않고 있다면 옆에 잘 앉을거에요.
no chinese allowed sign is understandable .. because the problem that time was the CCP refusing to share data about the gravity of covid problem in china. they did not let other countries to help study the virus and contain it..but instead, they even made it secret.... thats why people from other countries are hesitant to accept chinese tourists due to that.. it has nothing to do with racism.....
I'm italian living in Korea right now and this is my opinion, Koreans are really afraid about foreigner for example, when i seat in the bus N-O-B-A-D-Y seat near me and sometimes if they seat near me they say sorry to me... sorry for what?? Just seat and take a rest why sorry? Sorry because you are take a seat near me respect than korean? Really i don't understand, i'm normale human, even young students sometimes when the bus is full they don't seat near me and i heard conversation like (야 go to seat) and friend reply (no no near foreigner no) because yes i speak korean so i understand... really sad... in Korea is the truth even you speak korean and you try to do the best in the society you will never be inside the society is the truth, in every case i love south korea, i love the food and the culture😊
@@yo2trader539 of course yes! Maybe many times you can find the person say to u "nihao" or just are u from china? And this can be a little bit disrespectfull of course, but many italian they really doesn't know almost anything about asian country that's why they act like this (of course this is not a exscuse for act like this!) , me too i really hate this kind of things because is totally a ignorance bheavior.
Oh sorry to hear that. but as a korean I assume that they did it because they were afraid of the situation you would talk to them in english. Most of koreans are scared of speaking english with foreigners.
As someone of Southeast Asian background, I'm sick and tired of Korean people admitting on camera that Americans, Europeans, or white people in general are more accepted than people of other nationalities or skin colors. Do they seriously not realize how discriminatory and unfair that is, and dare I say immature? Imagine Korean people experiencing that for themselves anywhere. When the shoe is on the other foot, now suddenly they're the ones complaining about how negatively they're treated. If you want respect, you must earn it, but this mindset is not the way, especially if they are the ones living abroad. Many Korean people are living in the Philippines (among many other foreigners) as TH-camrs and they have admitted to the friendliness and hospitality of the locals. Imagine that changing one day because this is what they ACTUALLY think of us...as tempting as it is to give them a taste of their own medicine, we're better than that
I felt your message brother! We must collectively come up with a culture of dealing with these kind of fake people. I don’t have the answer just yet, but I know we can collectively come up with an answer together as long as we all can begin to see that we are all being treated differently for literally NOT being “white”.
@@user-qo7bu5fx2x I agree with your overall point that we ALL must change. We ALL must be better Men and Women and treating OTHER Men and Women like Men and Women…..race is foolishness
Would you prefer that they lied about it? White people being treated better than other ethnicities in Korea is just straight up factual. The first step in changing something like this is Koreans admitting the issue exists, and now you're upset about that admission???
@@user-qo7bu5fx2xi understand your point but are the rumors really lies ? Koreans themselves admit that most of them go through plastic surgery because of the society there. And we see all the white washing they do with k-pop artists for example, just because it’s “good” to be pale as a sign of purity and richness there.
As a black person that lives in SE Asia and travels to all of these countries on a regular basis. I will say that East Asians and whites are treated very well here, but everyone else not so much. This isn't an issue isolated to Koreans. A lot of SE Asians do the same thing, they just have prejudices towards different people. This is an issue all across Asia.
I think one should differentiate between experiencing superficial racism like being assumed to be Chinese or getting some low level racist remarks thrown your way vs systemic racism. Yeah, it doesn't make you feel good to be the target of racism - and I've had that so much that it just rolls off my back now - but to have less rights, to have a glass ceiling, to actually be treated as second class citizen with less legal rights is a completely different issue. So while I feel for Koreans traveling abroad who experienced some racism, I would encourage them to explore how SK discriminates against foreigners on a systemic level; especially those from SEA who are brought into to do unskilled labour. They aren't refugees nor are they illegals. They fulfill an important part of Korea's economy.
@@jiminswriter4209 I would agree that individual racism is more common. However, if the individual racism becomes the norm and tolerated or even encouraged, the line between individual and societal racism becomes blurred. Systemic racism doesn't necessarily have to do with actively withholding rights for foreigners. It could be as simple as not persecuting companies or institutions for discriminating against non-Koreans. Korean media has been steadily reporting cases of foreign labourers being paid lower than minimum wage, harsh and unsafe work environment, wage being withheld as a bargaining chip, passports being withheld, etc. Even if these are all illegal actions, leading to little or no consequences for perpetrators amounts to a systemic apathy.
I feel you, you are right. During the pandemic most Asians were discriminated in the US. There are idiots and haters everywhere. Though in my opinion the US is not a racist country, far from that. But Europe is different, they 're pretty racist, even in poor countries like Spain and Italy
I would love to know how Koreans feels about Puerto Ricans 😖❤️ I love Koreans so much I love there culture, food, music and fashion. My dream is to visit Korea at least once so that I can gain more knowledge and experience.
As Koreans, Koreans are very interested in social status, so they often discriminate among fellow Koreans based on educational background, wealth, etc. So, when dealing with foreigners, since there is not enough information to understand the background of the foreigner, it seems that they discriminate by finding out how well the foreigner's country is (per capita GDP, etc.)... The reason white people are treated well is because white people mainly live in developed countries. I think so. I think it is a bit different from discriminating based on race. However, this is also clear discrimination and many Koreans, including me, are alert to this and I think it is a problem that many people need to solve. It is true that this discrimination is especially severe among the elderly and is virtually disappearing among the younger generation. I believe it will continue to improve in the future. ㅠㅠ
Yes. There are Korean government policies that discriminate against foreigners, especially children and babies. Long term permanent residents that have children born in South Korea under Korean law can not have Korean citizenship, the children or parents are not entitled to any government programs. Another example, Citibank took over a Korean bank (KorAm Bank) and was still operating under the lending policies of the Korean bank. Koram bank lending policy at the time was that loans could only be given to those of the Korean race. Citizenship was irrelevant, had to be of the Korean race.
I like this channel's videos because He dares to speak up about racism towards foreigners, in particular South East Asian foreigners. While other podcast channel has been trying to avoid this discussion.
This issue is discussed all the time. It's a topic that has been addressed to death and feels tired. Yes, there are some xenophobic Koreans. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
@@mempto But that's how you raise awareness and change toward more tolerant society; by talking to death about it. It's a painful and aggravating process, but one that's necessary if the goal is to be more inclusive.
As a K-Popers sometimes I really wanted to live in SKorea, but its not my first time hearing how they treated people from Southeast Asian, I feel lazy to come there🥲 I mean, I'm afraid how they gonna treat me, plus I'm a little bit darker that average SEA people🤷♀️ is it gonna worth my money🥲
I know Korea well, and the very sight of a hijab brings xenophobia. Infact the very sight of a new mosque being built is highly discouraged with millions of petitions against it.
@@sara.cbc92 ikr!😭 right now I'm dreaming for going to postgraduate in S. Korea after finishing my dental school, but its just make me rethink it😂 maybe there many Europe city less islamphobic than S. Korea where you still can have a peace when studying (?)
@@Billlzz I'm Canadian and we are quite welcoming of all sorts of people. I think it would be a good place to consider your post grad. Would personally avoid Europe.
I am working in SK as an expat. My advice is never come to this country unless you majored in STEM. They don't even have a descent job for themselves. Statistic says their average income is 3000 USD but truth is it includes millions of people only making 2000 USD. Just visit for short term travel only. Def this place is fun to visit but not worth living.
Stop placing blame on old Korean people. The reason why Koreans do not sit next to foreigners. Because they don't want to. Older Koreans have a designated area where they sit normally. I found the older Koreans to be fairly open-minded. The younger people were weird acting. Be honest.
The people saying there isn't discrimination and racism from koreans either pretend they don't know infront of the camera or they really don't know... Interesting.
I don’t think it’s fair to just think Koreans are racist. They most likely just not used to having foreigners in their country. Some don’t want change and some just curious. A lot of other group in Middle East and religious groups can be very racist as not having inclusion. So we live in a racist world. I don’t think racism is a thing in the America and they definitely moved forward of not being racist. Europe, Asia, and Middle East not so much in progress.
I don’t know who you are. But racism is most CERTAINLY a “thing” in America. Trying to deny is just outright ignorant and stupid. Please do your damn research.
@@sara.cbc92you’re everywhere spreading hate about Koreans. Now I cannot help but think you have a motive. Are you a shill? If not, you must as well be at this point 😂
The answer is yes. That’s the truth. However as a black American I would go so far as to say Americans and especially Europeans are far more so than Koreans.
일본이나 한국은 인종차별을 많이 할 수밖에 없는 구조적 문제가 있음. 외부침입을 항상 경계 해왔고. 한 왕조의 역사가 천년 600년 이리되고 다 같은 계통이란 말이죠. 물리적인 그런거는 안하는데... 동질감을 중요하게 생각하기에.. 같은 예맥계라고 볼 수 있는 만주도 그랬고 몽골도 그랬고 한국 일본 공통점임. 다수의 중국인이 있는 속에서 그들과 응전하거나 지배하거나 이 속에서 분리주의적 성향이 강함. 이거는 어떻게 할 수 없지 않나 싶은데. 그게 하루 이틀 형성된거도 아니고 수천년 길게 만년 삼한 한반도에 정착하면서 형성된 문화라 고치기가 쉽지 않을꺼. 오히려 중국은 소수 민족이 많기에 그 부분은 확실히 한일 양국과 다름. 상식적으로 생각해봐요. 한반도에서 선사유적 문물이 나오는거는 만년이 넘어감. 현재 정작한 한국인과 동일한 문화패턴과 dna가 있는. 물론 그 속에는 백인 유전자도 학계에 보고가 되고 있고. 이상한거는 몇만년전 구석기인들은 영국에 그 당시 살던 거주인과 동일한 유전자 있는 이도 발견되어 보고 되기도 함. 근데 언제부터인가 본인들이 한반도인이라고 생각하는 이들이 수천년전부터 단일한 그룹으로 형성되어 왔고 현재에 이르고 있는데 몇만년전 다부족 다민족 연맹체제로 시작했다고 하더라도 수천년간 같은 한반도인으로 살았고 이후 거의 외부인 유입 없이 국가를 형성하고 문화를 형성했던 그들이 외부인들을 다양하게 경험한 국가와 같은 선상에서 놓기 힘듦. 그만큼 견고함. 그게 몇세대가 아니라 몇백세대 이전부터 형성되어 온것이라 한국인들도 그 전통이라는 거대한 뿌리에 짓눌려 살고 있는 겁니다.
Koreans care so much about social status that is why. Their politeness level or respect level is based on how high you are in society. For me that's just arrogant, knowing they were one of the poorest countries in Asia in the 50's. Without the help of the US or Western countries, and some SEA countries including the Philippines who sent soldiers during the Korean War, SK could be part of China or North Korea today. So this is just one bad side of Koreans.
I find that everyone he interview was not being 100 % true full. The reason they give for why they don’t sit by foreigner is just nonsense to me . Because sitting by someone on a bus or train is just that sitting u a not interacting with the person. They use the fact that they are afraid because they don’t speak English as an excuse for to long now. Let just call it what it is racism and saying it a Homogeneous country as a excuse it old now. Young Korean educated ur parents because they would like u to travel out to other countries and what they do to foreigners that come to ur country happen to u.
I disagree 100% with you mate. Many koreans or asians in general really are afraid of speaking english. They know how they sound and are made fun of, they even have a joke saying the only people that are worse than them in english are the Japanese. And factually they are a homogenous country as of 2023 with no real life exposure to any other culture other than few glimpse of "foreigners" on special tv programs and youtube, most never grew up with kids of other culture growing up in korea. But hey, go ahead and believe that most koreans just hate foreigners because of their skin colour
Koreans don't like to hear both Koreans and foreigners speak English to them. Ironically, some foreigners in Korea are also afraid to speak Korean to them because their Korean language skills are very low. If they use English, it will create potential problems, but at the same time speaking broken Korean will also create another problems. 😅
Well it may have been 100% homogeneous country years ago but in 2023 it is not anymore more. There a many other countries that they language is not English. But that do not treat foreigners in that manner. U are making excuses for people with bad behavior towards others because they have never traveled out of there country?Korean is a high tech and they can learn if they want to from internet. But most of all I am not making excuses for adults who should have a moral compass and know that we a all human and u treat people the way u want to be treated it’s not hard.
@@98765432123456789000 well the ones who travel abroad acting like if the other countries should bow in front of them or treat like some kings/queens and act disrespectfull to the citizens ,even when they live abroad they dont want to integrate.
I've been in Korea for 4 years and I haven't experienced the "Koreans don't want to sit next to you because you're a foreigner" situation yet. Maybe because I'm white, so as they said, I don't face as much backlash as people from South East Asia or other more melaninated ethnicities. Could it also be a size issue? Seats are quite narrow in Seoul and I have seen muscular foreigners not having anyone sit next to them (including me) because I didn't want to be squeezed. Or a smell issue? On several occasions, I had to move seats to escape some foreign guys who seemed to have emptied a can of deodorant on to their armpits. The discrimination I mostly encounter is administrative. A lot of things are forbidden for foreigners. Discriminating on the basis of ethnicity or nationality in the workplace is also not illegal in Korea. I love my job but my workplace explicitly states in black and white that foreigners will not be paid for some tasks while Koreans will. I did have racist encounters apart from that but they are not the majority.
I'm white and the first time it happened to me was when I was omw to my hotel from the airport 😢 the train was full but no one sat on my row. A guy walked in, was about to sit down until we made eye contact, he did a 45 degree turn and walked away. I thought it was so sad but damn funny at the same time
Black people treat Asian people differently because I been through racism working with black people. I’m not saying all but some of them treated me badly.
AS A FILIPINO WHOVE BEEN HATING KOREANS for 13YEARs.. i knew already this is the case.. many koreans are very racist towards filipinos.. my first encounter happened 13years ago.. year 2010.. i was just 14years old that time .. that happened here in cebu.. when a rich korean just bought a 3storey building from a filipino-canadian who is planning to migrate back to canada.. the deal included the spa, the restaurant, and the salon and the gym that was owned by the building ownwer himself. the top floor of that building serves as a motel with 40rooms... but unfortunately, the new korean owner abusing his filipino workers by giving them late payroll. and cutting off the benefits that was set by the first owner for his filipino employees. for example, if one family members of his employee died, there is a burial assistnace worth 15k. he also cut the free lunch benefits ,, his reason was, he is not yet making money.. but wyhen the employees started complaining about it.. they all kicked them out from the company after working for several years.without seperation fee. how did i know it? because my mom was th operations manager for that building for 5years.. they reported it to DOLE or department of labor and fortuantely, the law sided with them and urged the new owner to give them seperation fee. and the korean owner complied..
@@ljbunso4450필리핀의 한국대상 인종차별도 강합니다. ㅋㅋ 한국인 대상 강도 성범죄 살인.(한국에서 태어난 한국인 조차 겪고 있으며 특히 어린여자아이들이 피해를 받는다.) 일본인을 숭배하며 위안부 밈꺼지 만들며 공격하며깍아내리기 동남아인을 선호하지 않는다면 강력한 인종차별자라고 공격당하지만. 무고한 사람들이 한국인이라면 무조건 성형괴물이라고 인신공격을 합니다.(하지만 그 피해자들중 성형한 사람이 아무도 없었어요.)정작 한국 성형외과에 가득찬건 일본인 중국인 동남아인이라는 웃기지않습니까? 현실에서는 아무것도 하지않은 한국인상대로 질나쁜 소문으로 괴롭히고 물건 도난까지 하는 피해로 많은 내용이 공유됩니다.
The Korean wave won't last forever. In a few years many people will have moved on from the Korean experience and you can have your country back. Don't worry ❤
Unrelated, but I was in Japan for 2 weeks and looked forward to people not sitting next to me because I was a foreigner (cause I like more space), but ironically, this never happened.😅🙃🤣🙃 No one seemed to care that I was a foreigner, lol. I guess I'll try again in Korea. 😁😊🙃
This is very true honestly and my skin is this complexion 👍🏾. The U.S. is the worst in the world for violence and the worst in the world for racism. Now with that being said. Although S. Korea isn’t the WORST there is still room for improvement
@@camfreed9829 Thank you for saying that. I'm also Korean, but if there's a black person or foreigner, I'll be careful that I might be racist, and if they ask me for help, I'll do my best to help them.
@@user-bo7cs5eq7x we thank you and are very grateful for your kindness and respect my Korean brother, I will do the same on this side. May peace be with you 🙏🏾
Wow! They are putting the blame solely on the older generation. Older Koreans can be incredibly racist and xenophobic, but so can the younger generation. Living in Korea, you will meet good and bad people regardless of the generation. I just wish some would just mind their own business and stop harassing foreigners who are just existing.
It is easy to blame others, but hard to have self reflection. I guess when people are bored, they invent something to fight for. As I was gowing up there was no 'official' racism issue, bc 99% of the population was Korean. I barely would run into people from other countries. People invented something to fight against one another. Like blaming the oppisite gender, or blaming upper or down gernerations. People will be always that way. Or vegan or non Vegan
Скадем так, корейцы гораздо дружелюбнее к иностранцам. Я кореянка из России, мнргонациональной страны, скажу так, осколяли , было всякое. Но у нас к этому привычны. Нас учили давать сдачу. Если меня будут оскорблять, я не буду молчать. Унитожу физически, интеллектуально. Как могу.
When I was in highschool, I had a Korean friend. We had a new Indian classmate and our homeroom teacher tasked us to show her around. The 3 of us chatted and she left for another class. My Korean friend turned to me and said, "hey, do you notice these people have a certain foul stench?". I was shocked. It was another side of her I never expected, as she was a straight A student. She was giggling and meant every word. Since then I met hundreds of Koreans who were far more racist.
The last woman in white t shirt is lying. How can she know what the US Japanese couple was saying. Can she understand Japanese? Even so, she could be lying to slander Japanese. Koreans often do that
@@hikjee Right, Japanese would almost never be that vocal. And Korean tourists in the past have also accused Japanese restaurants of putting too much wasabi in their sushi, demanding refunds etc.
@@hikjee yes, they do that. And many Korean women pretend to be Japanese abroad when working in spas and massage parlors. They know Japanese are in demand.
@@sara.cbc92you’re right, she was probably lying. I lived in Japan for over 3 years, Japanese people are not as vocal and they tend to mind their own business in public.
@@AndIwandermuch yes, even if they do have bad opinions of others Japanese keep it to themselves. It's a huge part of their culture (tatemae) even if subconsciously. This Korean woman probably thought she could slip in a bad word about Japan hoping it may go viral.
@@user-lw8tq3qs1p so, you assumed her cousin is committing crimes even when you don’t have proof, but you only based this on the term “southeast asians,” got it. koreans are really racist towards SEA😂 you wouldn’t have made your first comment if she had said her cousin was european/american. congratulations, you just proved the topic of the video👏🏼
I'm a black woman and I've been working in Korea for the past two years, and I was also stationed here for a year in 2001 when I was in the Army. Of course I do get the occasional long stares because I keep my hair mostly in long braids, but I have never experienced anything malicious or blatantly racist. One of my Korean co-workers asked me if she could touch my hair, and I told her of course! She was so sweet and genuinely curious. Racism exists all over the world, so please don't let that ever discourage you from traveling to new places. Korea and it's people are truly amazing.
Are you single😉
Thanks for the comment!
배운 사람은 말이 깔끔하고 젠틀해
I definitely agree with that. ❤
Good for you , you had a great experience but that sadly is not ot the situation for everyone , majority of Koreans are racist due to ignorance and just hate, I realized that Korean’s who are educated about foreigners and travel a lot are different. Koreans even act different towards darker skinned Koreans. The racism is everywhere Statement is not an excuse for them not to be educated. People need to realize their faults and get educated. Nevertheless some Koreans are so sweet .
I've lived in Korea and Japan for 2 years and yes there are racist in Korea and Japan just like there are racists everywhere else in the world. I'm from the South in the US so I grew up around many racists including some of my relatives. I know what real racism looks like. The difference is in Korea, there aren't any violent organized racists groups (i.e., KKK, Neo-Nazis, etc..) physically trying to harm people like there are in the US, Japan and Europe.
I don't think institutionalized racism exists in Japan.
yeah places that aren’t developed often have racism for ex Korea just got out of poverty recently
Organized hate groups in Japan??!! Really?
@@gametri-eq6lj What are you talking about? I'm from the US and US is one of the most developed countries in the world and it's also one of the most racists countries in the world.
@@zachmiller9189 I meant that in Koreans case it hasn’t been long since they got developed people in the the u.s who are still racist act like it when they feel like they want too and aren’t just ignorant
I had very memorable experience with a grandpa in a train to Nami island. I am from South East Asia country. I travelled there after my dad passed away a week before (my mom told me to still go there because I've bought ticket and she wanted me to cheer up)
I was standing on the train, carrying my backpack. This old man (i thought he was about >75 years old) offered me his seat next to him, but i refused because i thought there would be more older people got in the train on the next station.
So the train kept running and the empty seat next to him had been seated by another grandpa 😁 suddenly, he poke my shoulder and told me to have a seat with his seat, because he would get off in the next station (using body language).
I felt uncomfortable but he said it was okay, so finally i sat there. I thought that grandpa really got off in the next station, but when i looked around, i found out he didn't get off yet, still standing a little bit far from me. He was watching me, too, from where he stood up, so when our eyes met, i helplessly tried to ask him to get his seat back witb body language because i felt guilty, but he tried to convince me that it was okay 😅 he really got off in the next station while waving at me before he departed.
As someone who had her father just passed away a week before, i couldn't feel more touched than that 😢
How sweet this beautiful
@@maxwellpatra4817 yes, it was 🥰
Before, i always heard stigma that korean elderly try to avoid foreigners. I didn't know if i looked like one of them, i do have a smaller eyes than typical South East Asian but my skin is still darker to be East Asian 😂 and i was with my friend to that wore hijab. After that experience, i really realized that you should experience certain things to proof the stigma is correct or not. Maybe i had better experience but I'm thankful for that till now 😁 it really healed a little bit of my sadness after my father passed away ❤️
But I did see that youngsters didn't care enough about priority seat when i took the train in the city. They tried to avoid any eye contact when elderly got on the train. Well, it happened in busy hours though. But i expected them to give priority seat more in that busy hour because the train was crowded and it was so uncomfortable for elder, but still they tend to ignore 😐 and even for woman, they didn't give seat so yeah i think some Korean men are not as gentlemen as what we watch in K-Drama 😅
@@agritodo Jezzz 😆
@@agritodo Korean men don’t give seat to women, unless she is his girlfriend or wife. If a man gives up seat for a woman, that would be a very strange thing in Korea. She may take it as a weird flirting and offended.
Young people are supposed to give up seat for older people, but tbh the young people are also very tired from long hours of work and difficult commute so they just stay their seat. I wonder if you saw young people falling asleep in the train. That happens a lot because everyone is tired. 🥲
I too have experienced older people giving up seats for us when I went around with my white husband. The cultural rule is that young people should give seats to elders, so it’s quite extraordinary, but it did happen several times . Some old people are very sweet and go out of their way to be nice. I heard some foreigners received pocket money as allowance from old people 🤣 Some old people are grumpy and rude to foreigners and young Koreans. We can never expect what kind of old people we may come across 😅
@@yj8641 oh woow, i didn't know before that giving seat to other women except your girlfriend or wife is considered flirting in Korea 😲 thanks for the information 😂
Yeah after i went traveling to another countries, I've seen some cultural difference with mine 😂
Before i thought same Asia countries will held same culture like : elder and lady first. But seems it is not applicable for every country 😂
In my country, it is an act of kindness if you give seat to elders or to give seat to woman (especially pregnant lady) and kids. But in our public transportation we do have special train wagon for ladies and kids.
In other wagons, it's mix so yeah currently we can see people who give seat to women or those who choose not to 😂 but most of it, we always give seat to elderly >60 years old or to women with kids and baby 😁
And somehow my country is very welcoming to foreigners (especially to White and Black people, and also East Asians 😁 ). You'll be surprised because you'll feel like celebrity when you walk in public area 😂
I hope you can/did reassure the first lady that if ANY man is bothering or following you, its okay to say and do whatever is needed to make them stop. And not to feel bad about it, either.
For what I have seen on youtube Korean female youtubers, n Korea it seems like Stalking is a thing. Apparently in order for a women to get a restraining order for someone who's stalking them by calling them non stop. She has to answer the phone for if not it won't be consider stalking 😳
If a foreigner or anyone in sk really defends themselves they’re the ones at fault not the attacker
이게맞지 저건 인종차별이 아님.. 외국인 차별은 안되지만 무조건 받아들일 필요도없다
The "I have a black friend" excuse makes me laugh everytime 😂.
Where was that?
This one makes me laugh too 😂 « See, I have a black friend, so I can’t be racist » 😅
How is this an excuse? A true racist would not have a black friend period.
It’s a classic
The funny and sad thing about is that Koreans perceive themselves as white ... which of course they definitely are not.
It's been improving steadily over the last decade. If anything I'm surprised that Korea isn't more racist with how homogenous it is. The most annoying thing I found in Korea has been systemic racism as the bureaucracy is slow to adapt to foreigners.
That’s not racism, but bureaucracy. Some organizations take a long time to change and the foreign population is very new in Korea.
It’s not systematic racism. It’s bureaucracy or lack of administrative experience.
I’m Korean born and raised, but I’m an American citizen now. Since I came back to Korea, I have a lot of problems with the Korean government offices, banks, phone companies, utility companies, schools, etc. I see a lot of foreigners on street in my neighborhood, which is not a foreigners’ district, so I had assumed, since Korea has very efficient administrations, it would be efficient for me too. But NOooooo 😅.
My visa renewal took a long time; my insurance got suspended, and I lost a lot of money; I almost lost power because of electricity bill problem ….. 😂
I have to sit with the banker for at least two hours every time when I go to the banks because they don’t know how to take care of foreigner’s specific business and spend hours calling other specialists to figure out 😂 I even feel bad for them because they struggle so much every time 😂
American government administration is slow and terrible too, but it’s bad for everyone. Korean administration is bad for foreigners because theydon't have much administrative experience and didn't create clear manual yet. I think it will take more time for them to learn and adjust too.
My bankers are working faster now, and since we had so many long meetings, I'm friends with bankers now 😂
Very well said
This was a great episode 👏🏽
0:31 yes some people avoid foreigners because they are not confident of their English skill, they can be very anxious about passerby hearing them speak English and get laugh at if they pronounced words wrong or their grammar was incorrect.
In 2023 Korea cannot use the “we’re a homogenous country so….” Too many different cultures are exposed and used in Korea and some are used and saturated in things (music, mannerism, verbiage, etc) Also the word “foreigner” is VERY vague. Each type of foreigner is treated different in Korea. Also there or preferences in Korea.
Exactly!!! They don’t use that “ we are a homogenous country so…” when they knew how to treat white people right who wasn’t even Korean but not others who are a POC. I’m sick of hearing that excuse for last 16years, I understand if it was 2000 but not 2023, sorry, young people have been exposed to TV, social media and tourists, that doesn’t matters if you don’t have foreign friend but just be nice.
@@monsterrr1999 You read my mind. So tired of this lame excuse of homogenous country. Technology advanced but don’t give a s*it about opening themselves towards other cultures.
Most of the Koreans admire white people meanwhile look down on dark skin.
Filipinos, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesians are so welcoming and don’t have this arrogant attitude.
I would say compared to other European and NA countries, SK is relatively homogeneous in terms of being monoethnic and monocultural. It has been exposed to more foreign cultures for sure, and it has more foreigners living and working in it than ever bf, and this will slowly change their attitudes toward non-Koreans. There will be growing pains just like here in Canada and the US.
I get your point but they are fkn homogeneous🥲
@@roar5853There is nothing wrong with that. They chose to stay isolated for a period of time because of other countries trying to invade them. It is better than being diverse due to slavery or colonization.
I like the hairstyle Jerry 😊
인종차별 이라는게 그냥 모호한거임 그냥 쳐다봤는데도 인종차별이라고 느끼는 사람이 있고 안 쳐다봤다고 인종차별이라고 느끼는 사람도 있음
예를 들면 " 나를 동물원 원숭이를 보듯이 모두 다 쳐다봤다" 혹은 반대로 " 마치 나를 투명인간 취급 하듯이 쳐다보지도 않았다"
이런 경우들이 있지 심각한 인종 혐오범죄 단체가 나와서 서로 죽고 죽이는게 아닌이상 인종차별으로 그만 떠들어라 오히려 전혀 무관한 사람들만
서로 불편해진다 시간이 차차 해결해주겠찌
DO NOT JUDGE Koreans by comments here. if you have to, judge them by interacting them in person.
Yeah I've watched other videos and follow other people and found out some are nice some are not which is in every country
The people interviewed interacted with Koreans, I suppose...
I’ve interacted with Koreans and they are racists especially to South East Asian. This is more evident especially now that Korea is becoming famous via Kpop / Kdrama with its soft power and many of its citizens are now having this superiority complex feeling.
@@kamalaroyale790한국인들은 같은 한국인들에게 조차도 외모 학력 재산 정도에 따라서 차별하는나라입니다 경제는 발달했지만 국민의식수준은 아직 멀었다
@@kamalaroyale790 same goes for me on my end, I've faced middle east, south east Asians, they were very rude and careless. But I do not judge it as the country is racist or what ever. It's really, just matter of people. There are good people and bad people in every country. I hope you face some good koreans one day that you get away with these negativity. Negativity only create bigger negativity just like you faced racism from them that you have hate on them.
I've experienced a lot of kindness and acceptance since my family moved to South Korea earlier this year. And learning the language has helped to an extent. Korea feels like home, especially for my kids. Yes, the bus experience happens often, but I sit with Koreans when I get a chance. I loved the honesty of every speaker. Nothing is black and white. People are different, and they have different reasons for how they treat other people. I love being in South Korea. Another great one, @KExplorer. 🎉🎉
나는 한국에서 외국인한테 인종차별 당했다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ한국인인데 ㅋㅋ
Could you ask what exactly oppa means. I have a kr gf and she says the word is way different from what we foreigners know it as (from kdrama)
I live in Sweden permanently, Filipino-born and takes buses at all time. The locals avoid sitting with foreigners on the bus. The elderlies here are often very prejudistic of immigrants. But let me tell you that many childless couples here adopts Korean babies.
And you Jerry, have you experienced any discrimination in 🇰🇷 ?
That's what I'd like to know.
I love how now most people about *his* opinion and life story in the comments. It's about time we learn more 👀
His name is Jerry?
@@likhwezititusyeah. You can see in his channel banner
@@little.rascal. You sound ignorant. ALL countries have their problems. If you're going to live in this world, you better know more about it.
Great discussion. I like the honest response of your guest. Good interview
Short answer - of course they do. When practically 100% of people look like each other and you have little contact with others for centuries - you tend to have an elevated sense of your superiority.
Very well said! I had a classmate who just immigrated to America back then and said that people with blond hair was strange to him.
Nazis thought the same , race superiority. It didn't ended up well for them..
Ya go to Africa and they think differently. Its all abt where you are. In India the Northeast Indians who look chinese are despised.
@@Sunshine-zi4nq You don't know kuch about Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has dozens of ethnic groups with different languages and customs living in close proximity. Diversity and multiple cultures are the norm there.
@@vmoses1979 my point is wherever you go people have different perceptions of what is " attractive". FYI I have heard Africans make comments abt Asian eyes. Westerners too. To them Oriental eyes ( East Asian) are unattractive. Its ok, we all have our own perceptions abt Beauty but just treat everyone with respect.
(Nothing to do with the topic) but the guy with the glasses is soo cute 😍💯Love from Scandinavia
Keep up the good work jerry This is a topic that definitely needs to be discuss
Love to see genuine Content, I have to start working on my Korean communication skills. Keep pushing good Concepts and local perspective information! Keep Going Up‼️
OMG, you are such an elegant person! How classy! I am so impressed. 👏👏👏
I’ve been to Seoul recently and some old ladies pulled their masks up when they saw me. I’m American but of Chinese descent so maybe they thought I was a COVID threat 😅😅. I also have a bald head so maybe people thought I was U.S. military and tried to avoid me. But I had some friendly experiences with old men for some reason. One time someone got up from their seat on the metro when they reached their stop. I was standing next to it but did not sit down and let the old man take it instead. When he got off at his stop he thanked me and offered me the seat. Another time, I went to JJimjilbang and an older man asked me to help take his bandaids off on his back from acupuncture I assume. He was also nice and thanked me.
I (Korean) probably could not tell if you are Chinese or Korean. The grandmas, I believe, could not tell it either, unless they heard you speak Chinese.
@jeanger8733 hmm maybe they knew i was American then. Actually i went into a Daiso and one of the ladies working there seemed annoyed that i couldnt speak Korean. Maybe they thought i was gyopo.
I have wanted to travel to Korea for so long and I've been terrified of the thought of sticking out like a sore thumb, stares or discrimination 😔 this was a good insightful video.
Why would you fund racism by going to Korea?
Trust your gut feeling
Watch the interviews with black people actually living in Korea. I found that a lot of people who criticize racism and colorism never even visited Korea. It's not worse than any other countries. If you survive in the US, you are fine in Korea. You will be treated nicely by most people. They may be afraid of you and avoid you though because they are afraid of speaking English😅
Oh, by the way, they will stare at you 🥲 they are not familiar with black people or foreigners, so especially old people and children will stare at you, out of curiosity. If you can smile at them and say hi, they may sum up the courage to talk to you too. I don't know if you want to talk to locals. If you are shy, you may not like the stares, but extrovert foreigners use that as opportunity to talk 😅
There's no racists in your country? @@sara.cbc92
I think ppl with common sense know the answer to this question in the title. Just don’t go there period & u don’t have to worry about it.
That’s assuming a lot. You don’t have to come to Korea, but others are allowed to come and see for themselves.
@@jiminswriter4209Good Luck
@@lexieliu5339Taiwan is the best
@@lexieliu5339 What is the point of this message?
@@jiminswriter4209 ??
I think the host look best when he had his hair tied and showed his chisel check bone.
Discrimination is not exclusively racial, as we know a lot of times ha stop do with money, rich or poor.. No matter the color, no matter the country. So if you discriminate or if you are racist are different questions
Come ask me what I think of Koreans
You are actually an Chinese aren't you? 화교일뽕답노ㅋㅋㅋ
short answer : YEs
long answer : Yesssss but more excute
There were no excuses.
@@jiminswriter4209 they excuses like : they just need get to know the "foreigner" obviously if you not white or european you are a threat and needed to "get to know "
@@kimkhoitruong5991 There is no excuse for rudeness, but people aren’t going to be as friendly to those they are less familiar with.
It’s interesting how Koreans are constantly being criticized and stereotyped as if racism and xenophobia isn’t endemic in every single country around the world. There is almost a gleeful quality to demonizing Korean people, especially by certain insecure people who come from countries where colorism and xenophobia are deeply embedded in their own cultures.
Nice try gas lighting those who attempt to shine a light on the dire state of Korea's race relations.
@@sara.cbc92you prove my point
@@mempto how have I proved your point? Do elaborate.
Yup. I have never seen such vicious fandom in any country. Even fans of American and Japanese cultures, which are more famous than Korean ones, are not this distorted.
Don't get me wrong. I am the one arguing ignorant Korean people in this comment section. But still I don't like the CROWD surrounding them.
But Korea is one of the various countries prominently known for being extremely colorist and that leads to greater race issues as well… don’t be oblivious
Regarding the story of the US immigration office. I’m not going to discredit her but that’s a universal experience. For some reason anyone who works for the DMV and immigration are just the most put out/ rude people there are. I think most Americans will agree . Idk if its just because they deal with unprepared ppl, long hours or argumentative people. I dread going into the DMV for this reason alone.
The DMV and the immigration officers in the US I met were not rude, luckily for me, but it took too much time! It seems that They don’t have enough officers so it delays the process too much! I requested a simple document to the US immigration office, and I had to pay $500 and had to wait for a year to get the document! I got the same kind of document from the Korean government in 10min. And paid $1.
For me, Korean government and immigration officers were nice, but it seems each officer wants different things, and sometimes their requirements don’t make sense. It seems they don’t have much experience yet and still have to work on developing the manual. It's very confusing for me (and they are confused) and sometimes costly 😭
@@yj8641 yeah both immigrations and the dmv are an absolute headache to deal with. On top of most ppl being rude they can’t agree on what you need and get mad if you don’t have everything.
I would argue that the title of this video is itself racist. A less horrible title would have been “does racism exist in Korea?” The whole all Koreans are racist is a hateful, ignorant headline that attracts the worst people to lie or embellish whatever perceived slights they either actually encountered or are just making up.
Cry harder lol
This youtuber hates korea for some reason. That is why he puts titles like that to attract people with same logics.
Maybe the older Koreans who haven’t been abroad or exposed to different cultures would, but the younger Koreans seem very accepting of foreigners and different cultures. Nowadays you see so many Koreans dating and marrying outside of their race and going abroad experiencing and embracing so many different cultures. It seems most of South Korea has really embraced diversity now.
That’s not true for young Koreans. I have seen racist young Koreans too
@@monsterrr1999Yes and it definitely depends on the person. I had a classmate that was a bit open to friendship but when it came to marriage, she strictly only wanted Koreans. She returned to Korea and married a Korean guy and has 2 kids now.
Many young Koreans are racist too but overall, they are a bit better than older Koreans.
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj I am not talking about relationships but friendships or just meeting people in general. They tends to know how to treat white people right though.
Not so much.
@@monsterrr1999yes it depends on your skin color. The darker you are the more potential discrimination. This even goes for south/southeast Asians not just black
솔직히 아프리카대륙국가에 동아시아인이 가면 어떨까요..?
길거리에 대놓고 더 심한걸봅니다.
이제 슬슬 한국에 대한게 아닌 아프리카대륙, 다른아시아 사회구조 레이시즘 문제에도 다뤄보지그래요?
The camera quality is so crisp. 😦
해외경험이 거의 없는 사람들은 인종차별하는 것 같아요. 당연히 그것도 사람 나름이지만요. 저는 캐나다랑 호주에서 살면서 언어차별과 인종차별을 당해봐서 차별 당하는 사람들이 얼마나 화가 날지 이해합니다. 한국 돌아와서 한국에 사는 외국인들의 마음을 더 이해하게 되었어요. 한국에도 분명 인종차별이 있고 저는 해외에서 당했던 사람으로써 그런 사람들을 너무 싫어합니다. 저는 그래서 어느나라에서 왔건 잘 사던 못 살던 상관없이 잘 해주려는게 있는 것 같아요. 차별은 차별을 낳는 것 같은데 어느나라던 차별은 존재하지만 배운 사람들은 차별하지 않는다는 것이 팩트. 앞으로 다름의 아름다움을 아는 대한민국이 되기를 바랍니다.
Exactly what i said to some Koreans here , the nice Korean’s i met were those who either travel overseas or have education on how to treat foreigners. Well said
여기보면 외국인들 증언으로는 노인들이 오히려 친절하다는데, 인터뷰하는 사람이나, 댓글 다는 사람들이나 나는 아니고 나보다 늙은 사람들이라고 탓을 하니 한국인 남탓 종특은 어디 안가네요. 답이 없다
@@user-bn3cn1xb4b 저도 남탓하는 한국종톡 너무 인정합니다. 저는 안 그런다는 아니꼬운 시선으로 말하는거 알아요. 저도 경험이 없을때는 무의식적으로 저도 남탓하고 차별했을거라 생각해요. 지금은 안그러랴고 의식적으로 노력하고 안그러게된 것 같아요. 나 또한 그런 사람임을 인정하고 바라보고 고치려한다면 분명 바뀌실 수 있을거에요.
아프리카 국가에서 동아시아인이 가면 어쩔려나.. ㅋㅋ
한국사람들은 인종차별주의자냐고 묻고 다니는 것 자체가 인종차별적인 것 아님?
yes, there is. place like japan and korea, where there's mostly just koreans and japanese. as country don't grow up with foriegners. still got lots of stereotype about other race peoples and stuff, for sure. or at least, korean has strong identity as a 'korean' it's not about they hate forgiener, it's just they have strong configurations so discrimination comes naturally after.
Wait! Will they avoid sit next to me in the subway??? 😰😰😰😓😓😓😭😭😭
Not if you are white.
Nope! By the looks of it you’re an anglo saxon European “white” woman. Koreans have a “fear of the sun” culture there so they love people like that who also look like they fear the sun lol
@user-dk9xr4ry3w LOL??? Omg I’m laughing so hard am I reading this wrong? Did his underarm smell or?
@user-dk9xr4ry3w oh i understand you, a aunty of mine says that she dont like sitting close to koreans when is summer and she have to take the train close to Koreatown because of work, the strong smell of onion/ garlic/kimchi that koreans have in their body is what she thinks is really powerfull
Well, I’m ahjumma so I’m fearless 😅 I don’t avoid sitting next to foreigners because I lived in the US for long time and foreigners are familiar to me. On the other hand, I don’t sit next to older Korean men. It’s just uncomfortable. I don’t know why 😅. I don’t hate men 😂.
So I understand when Koreans avoid sitting next to foreigners, or avoid being near foreigners. It’s just uncomfortable to them because they are not familiar with different people. It’s kind of Korean way of shyness, not hatred or racism.
On the other hand, some old Koreans give seats to foreigners. Koreans’ behavior to foreigners are quite unpredictable and unreasonable. They can be cold or rude, or super friendly, depending on the situation and the individuals. A lot of uncomfortable situations for foreign tourists are due to erratic behaviors of Koreans around unfamiliar people, not racism.
Yes there is racism or discrimination towards foreign labor workers in Korea 😢
So if your reason to come to Korea is spend money by study or vacation you won’t feel discrimination but if you are looking for employment you’re screwed,🤣
I experienced discrimination when studying there. My friend who was whiter skin than me was better treated in many places we visited, since then I just wanted to escape from there. Outside I was focused on my duties, inside I was screaming of disappointment in Korea
@@Nicki-jk9ththe only way to change this is to start to educate these people about MELANIN. And how the SUN is HEALTHY for human beings….it seems they have created a culture of FEAR of the sun and that has created contempt for those who LIVE in countries where the sun shines often. Again, just on a health and scientific level, sunlight and melanin are ALSO a sign of GOOD health….meanwhile they think the opposite….
Good looking white people who fit Korean beauty standards are the best treated type of foreigners in Korea lol.
Wrong. I got a job pretty easily here working in IT as a half black woman
Every country is the same 😂
The Filipino Squid Game actor Player 276. Said in an interview on AsiaBoss that he experienced racism in the bus.
I also experienced racism in the Philippines as well.
Let's find out how to make this world better together rather than hate eachother
Are you talking about Ali? or the bully.. a bad guy who dropped with 미녀
You mean the Indian actor Ali cuz there wasn’t a Filipino actor in squid games
@ayannagrant6318 I just googled. Player 276 was Filipino. I didnt notice him, although I knew Ali was from India.
I was in KOrea for 12 years and have traveled 80 countries. Racism in Korea is very high. I was attacked by three Korean men and two of them went to jail. Koreans refused to believe it even when I showed the court papers. The newspaper refused to cover the story.
My men I am a black dominican.. and most dominican don t sit besides foreigneers(Asian, Black or White). why? I think is a sign of respect or we feel uncomfortable.. I don t know..but, we love foreigneers
Younger koreans are racist too. I've stayed in korea for several months, and many times I was treated as an idiot by people my age, whether it was in school or in shops. I could also 100% feel when koreans felt uncomfortable having to sit next to me in the bus (not everyone, but this is definitely something you can feel).
My friends who travelled there also experienced racism by other young people in their 20s or 30s.
Sure Jan
Lol the younger ones are extremely racist too! You have very few that are kind and loving towards all human beings. Majority of the time they only want to relate with POC to party and experience entertainment. They don’t consider you to be anything other than a good time. It’s very sad.
@@niwu5218but they aren’t “white” so they are also POC…..therefore we call it self hatred?
@@camfreed9829 the definition of "white " is different in the world, not to mention that asians like koreans have obsesion with being white pale skinned and some of them are white pale skinned natural,so classifying as POC is kinda of weird,for them a POC is somebody like a thai person or and indian because most of them have dark brown skin.
@@camfreed9829Koreans in korea are "white" in the sense that they are the race with systemic power there
There's no racism, If you're beautiful, High knowledge, and rich
Haha this is true😢
Agree 🥲
Why is there so many similarities between Japan and S.Korea when it comes to the treatment of foreigners? It's actually quite different in China.
this topic will be endless. everyone got different experienced
we cannot judge all of them are racist. if they do to you, you just ignore them
Are there Koreans that are racist and discriminate on that basis? Certainly. Just as there are Koreans who aren't and don't. Korea, not unlike Japan, China, India and many other places in Asia, has a storied history with "colorism" and glorifying and romanticizing lighter, paler skin and features while shunning darker skin and features. Much of the descrimination black American people or darker skinned people from places like Cambodia, Sri Lanka or African countries have experienced in those countries can often be traced to inhibitions and beliefs linked to colorism.
Just wanted to give some background context to why Koreans like white people. America 🇺🇸 came and saved S.Korea from N.Korea during the Battle of Incheon in the Korean War. That key battle, if not won by General MacArthur and Americans (who were mostly white back in the 50s), would’ve lost S.Korea and made the entire country communist. So S.Koreans have naturally favored Westerners/white people.
Yes, yes they are.
ㅋㅋ 인도는 안그럴까? 더 심하던대 인도여행가서
길거리에서 하루종일 칭챙총거려서 정신병걸릴정도 까지 당하는사람많더라. 심지어 그게 수위가 가장낫다고 😂😂
we learned from history to not trust other races because they take advantage(japan ocupation,korean war), therefore many older generations understand this because of the past, so the suspicion is there, the new generations are more open because they cannot relate to the past due to american influence, interent, society etc. this new generation is evolving to compete w other societies because of that. Many older koreans do discriminate, younger gens dont. is it right? no. how can it be fixed? hard question to answer.
한국 사람들은 인종차별은 하지 않아요. 나라 차별은 합니다. 역사 및 지리적인 문제로 중국, 일본을 좋아하지 않아요.
2000년대 초반부터는 나이 많은 한국 남자에게 베트남과 캄보디아, 필리핀의 젊은 여자들이 돈을 받고 결혼을 하기 시작했어요. 그들은 한국에 와서도 다문화 가정이라 불리며 대체로 가난하게 사는 경우가 많고 한국말도 잘 못해서 아이들 사이에서는 차별을 당했어요. 슬슬 동남아시아를 무시하는 경향이 생깁니다.
그 나라에 대한 인식이 안좋은거지 막상 그 나라의 사람을 만나면 친절하게 대해줍니다.
지하철에서 외국인 옆에 앉지 않는 이유는.. 덩치가 너무커요. 옆에 앉으면 의자가 좁고 어깨가 너무 많이 넘어와 불편합니다. 또 한번은 옆에 앉을려고 봤는데 온몸에 땀을 너무 많이 흘리고 있었어요. 옆에 앉기 찝찝했지만 앉았습니다.
외국인이라서 앉지 않는건 아니에요.
사이즈가 작고, 땀을 흘리지 않고 있다면 옆에 잘 앉을거에요.
@@sara.cbc92흑인남자는 한국에서 흑형이라 불립니다. 흑인은 한국에서 능력자로 인식됩니다.오히려 한국에는 중국인과 일본인을 비하하는 단어는 가지고 있습니다.
Can you explain why Korean women only interested dating white men more than I have seen in London?
인간은 다 인종차별함.
That boy Explorer be fly 💪🏿
During covid I've seen these signs in shops, "no Chinese people allowed" "no foreigners allowed".
no chinese allowed sign is understandable .. because the problem that time was the CCP refusing to share data about the gravity of covid problem in china. they did not let other countries to help study the virus and contain it..but instead, they even made it secret.... thats why people from other countries are hesitant to accept chinese tourists due to that.. it has nothing to do with racism.....
As if it didn't happened in other countries 😂
@@roar5853 never claimed that not to be in the case in other parts of the world. Just stating what I've witnessed in Korea
I’ve seen tons of news that asians were beaten to death in the US during covid era
What do you think about that Koreans were banned in China during Covid even if it is from China...
They discriminate only South East Asia(except Singapore) especially if u look SEA
I am from SEA and has Korean lover.. I know...
1st😊
I'm italian living in Korea right now and this is my opinion, Koreans are really afraid about foreigner for example, when i seat in the bus N-O-B-A-D-Y seat near me and sometimes if they seat near me they say sorry to me... sorry for what?? Just seat and take a rest why sorry? Sorry because you are take a seat near me respect than korean? Really i don't understand, i'm normale human, even young students sometimes when the bus is full they don't seat near me and i heard conversation like (야 go to seat) and friend reply (no no near foreigner no) because yes i speak korean so i understand... really sad... in Korea is the truth even you speak korean and you try to do the best in the society you will never be inside the society is the truth, in every case i love south korea, i love the food and the culture😊
Just curious. Would a Korean living in Italy be included in Italian society?
@@yo2trader539 of course yes! Maybe many times you can find the person say to u "nihao" or just are u from china? And this can be a little bit disrespectfull of course, but many italian they really doesn't know almost anything about asian country that's why they act like this (of course this is not a exscuse for act like this!) , me too i really hate this kind of things because is totally a ignorance bheavior.
Oh sorry to hear that. but as a korean I assume that they did it because they were afraid of the situation you would talk to them in english. Most of koreans are scared of speaking english with foreigners.
@manuel1544 I really really love Italy(one of my fav country) but I really hope people in there will be more respectful and polite to Asian one day:)
@@user-cnksi223 always depends on wich country you go to italy but! totally agree with you 🙌🏻
As someone of Southeast Asian background, I'm sick and tired of Korean people admitting on camera that Americans, Europeans, or white people in general are more accepted than people of other nationalities or skin colors. Do they seriously not realize how discriminatory and unfair that is, and dare I say immature? Imagine Korean people experiencing that for themselves anywhere. When the shoe is on the other foot, now suddenly they're the ones complaining about how negatively they're treated. If you want respect, you must earn it, but this mindset is not the way, especially if they are the ones living abroad.
Many Korean people are living in the Philippines (among many other foreigners) as TH-camrs and they have admitted to the friendliness and hospitality of the locals. Imagine that changing one day because this is what they ACTUALLY think of us...as tempting as it is to give them a taste of their own medicine, we're better than that
I felt your message brother! We must collectively come up with a culture of dealing with these kind of fake people. I don’t have the answer just yet, but I know we can collectively come up with an answer together as long as we all can begin to see that we are all being treated differently for literally NOT being “white”.
@@user-qo7bu5fx2x I agree with your overall point that we ALL must change. We ALL must be better Men and Women and treating OTHER Men and Women like Men and Women…..race is foolishness
Would you prefer that they lied about it? White people being treated better than other ethnicities in Korea is just straight up factual. The first step in changing something like this is Koreans admitting the issue exists, and now you're upset about that admission???
@@user-qo7bu5fx2xi understand your point but are the rumors really lies ? Koreans themselves admit that most of them go through plastic surgery because of the society there. And we see all the white washing they do with k-pop artists for example, just because it’s “good” to be pale as a sign of purity and richness there.
As a black person that lives in SE Asia and travels to all of these countries on a regular basis. I will say that East Asians and whites are treated very well here, but everyone else not so much. This isn't an issue isolated to Koreans. A lot of SE Asians do the same thing, they just have prejudices towards different people. This is an issue all across Asia.
Very astute observation. Bias based on the status of your country.
Jerry... you showing them how it's done!!
I think one should differentiate between experiencing superficial racism like being assumed to be Chinese or getting some low level racist remarks thrown your way vs systemic racism. Yeah, it doesn't make you feel good to be the target of racism - and I've had that so much that it just rolls off my back now - but to have less rights, to have a glass ceiling, to actually be treated as second class citizen with less legal rights is a completely different issue.
So while I feel for Koreans traveling abroad who experienced some racism, I would encourage them to explore how SK discriminates against foreigners on a systemic level; especially those from SEA who are brought into to do unskilled labour. They aren't refugees nor are they illegals. They fulfill an important part of Korea's economy.
What systemic racism do Southeast Asians face? I would not say there is much, but more individual racism.
@@jiminswriter4209 username checks out.
@@jiminswriter4209 I would agree that individual racism is more common. However, if the individual racism becomes the norm and tolerated or even encouraged, the line between individual and societal racism becomes blurred.
Systemic racism doesn't necessarily have to do with actively withholding rights for foreigners. It could be as simple as not persecuting companies or institutions for discriminating against non-Koreans.
Korean media has been steadily reporting cases of foreign labourers being paid lower than minimum wage, harsh and unsafe work environment, wage being withheld as a bargaining chip, passports being withheld, etc. Even if these are all illegal actions, leading to little or no consequences for perpetrators amounts to a systemic apathy.
I feel you, you are right. During the pandemic most Asians were discriminated in the US. There are idiots and haters everywhere. Though in my opinion the US is not a racist country, far from that. But Europe is different, they 're pretty racist, even in poor countries like Spain and Italy
@@jiminswriter4209a lot
I think this is one of those delicate subjects where a Korean interviewer should be used to get more candid answers.
I would love to know how Koreans feels about Puerto Ricans 😖❤️ I love Koreans so much I love there culture, food, music and fashion. My dream is to visit Korea at least once so that I can gain more knowledge and experience.
theres a lot of Filipino Teachers there in Korea and they said its the old Korean People are more racist
As Koreans, Koreans are very interested in social status, so they often discriminate among fellow Koreans based on educational background, wealth, etc. So, when dealing with foreigners, since there is not enough information to understand the background of the foreigner, it seems that they discriminate by finding out how well the foreigner's country is (per capita GDP, etc.)... The reason white people are treated well is because white people mainly live in developed countries. I think so. I think it is a bit different from discriminating based on race. However, this is also clear discrimination and many Koreans, including me, are alert to this and I think it is a problem that many people need to solve. It is true that this discrimination is especially severe among the elderly and is virtually disappearing among the younger generation. I believe it will continue to improve in the future. ㅠㅠ
솔직히 피해망상.. 밥먹으려고 손 씻어도 인종차별이라 할 애들임
You are literally proving his point of racism by denying that it doesn’t exist
there is NO country without RACISM
일본인으로서 한국인은 도대체 무슨 자격으로 남을 차별하는지 모르겠어.김치국에 취해서인가?근거가먼데?
Yes. There are Korean government policies that discriminate against foreigners, especially children and babies. Long term permanent residents that have children born in South Korea under Korean law can not have Korean citizenship, the children or parents are not entitled to any government programs. Another example, Citibank took over a Korean bank (KorAm Bank) and was still operating under the lending policies of the Korean bank. Koram bank lending policy at the time was that loans could only be given to those of the Korean race. Citizenship was irrelevant, had to be of the Korean race.
I’m sooooooooo positive jealous, that he speaks Korean😭😭😭
yes, they are hella r@cist especially to SEA
I like this channel's videos because He dares to speak up about racism towards foreigners, in particular South East Asian foreigners. While other podcast channel has been trying to avoid this discussion.
This issue is discussed all the time. It's a topic that has been addressed to death and feels tired. Yes, there are some xenophobic Koreans. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
@@mempto But that's how you raise awareness and change toward more tolerant society; by talking to death about it. It's a painful and aggravating process, but one that's necessary if the goal is to be more inclusive.
I don’t think anyone is avoiding this discussion, but focusing on what is popular.
@@9y2bgy Couldn't agree more. Well said
Strange how several Korean guys have chased me. They are all attractive too.
니하오? 가 안녕하세요? 이랑 똑같은건데
왜 인종차별단어라고 생각하지?
한국인인지 중국인인지 몰라서 하는말인데~~
중국인한테 "안녕하세요"하면
인종차별인가?
실실 웃으면서 조롱하는 의도로 니하오 말하는게 딱 눈에 보입니다 ㅋㅋ
As a K-Popers sometimes I really wanted to live in SKorea, but its not my first time hearing how they treated people from Southeast Asian, I feel lazy to come there🥲 I mean, I'm afraid how they gonna treat me, plus I'm a little bit darker that average SEA people🤷♀️ is it gonna worth my money🥲
*go
I know Korea well, and the very sight of a hijab brings xenophobia. Infact the very sight of a new mosque being built is highly discouraged with millions of petitions against it.
@@sara.cbc92 ikr!😭 right now I'm dreaming for going to postgraduate in S. Korea after finishing my dental school, but its just make me rethink it😂 maybe there many Europe city less islamphobic than S. Korea where you still can have a peace when studying (?)
@@Billlzz I'm Canadian and we are quite welcoming of all sorts of people. I think it would be a good place to consider your post grad. Would personally avoid Europe.
I am working in SK as an expat. My advice is never come to this country unless you majored in STEM. They don't even have a descent job for themselves. Statistic says their average income is 3000 USD but truth is it includes millions of people only making 2000 USD. Just visit for short term travel only. Def this place is fun to visit but not worth living.
Stop placing blame on old Korean people. The reason why Koreans do not sit next to foreigners. Because they don't want to. Older Koreans have a designated area where they sit normally. I found the older Koreans to be fairly open-minded. The younger people were weird acting. Be honest.
They are the same. Equally racist.
Korean black face shows ❕💡
The people saying there isn't discrimination and racism from koreans either pretend they don't know infront of the camera or they really don't know... Interesting.
Guys remember if it’s foreigners it can be anyone from even other Asian countries. Not just blacks and whites
I don’t think it’s fair to just think Koreans are racist. They most likely just not used to having foreigners in their country. Some don’t want change and some just curious. A lot of other group in Middle East and religious groups can be very racist as not having inclusion. So we live in a racist world. I don’t think racism is a thing in the America and they definitely moved forward of not being racist. Europe, Asia, and Middle East not so much in progress.
Nah, majority of them are racists. And I've met thousands of Koreans.
I don’t know who you are. But racism is most CERTAINLY a “thing” in America. Trying to deny is just outright ignorant and stupid. Please do your damn research.
Thanks to japanese imperialism ..... Their love for other nationalities knows no bound😅😅😅
@@atul.binda.mithlesh more like colonized by the US. They just love Americans.
@@sara.cbc92you’re everywhere spreading hate about Koreans. Now I cannot help but think you have a motive. Are you a shill? If not, you must as well be at this point 😂
The answer is yes. That’s the truth. However as a black American I would go so far as to say Americans and especially Europeans are far more so than Koreans.
Just curios, where in Europe you felt you were discriminated against. And how exactly were you discriminated against as a black American.
인종차별이란 기본적으로 우월주의에서 나오는거지 다름의 어색함으로 판단하면 끝도 없습니다
일본이나 한국은 인종차별을 많이 할 수밖에 없는 구조적 문제가 있음. 외부침입을 항상 경계 해왔고.
한 왕조의 역사가 천년 600년 이리되고 다 같은 계통이란 말이죠.
물리적인 그런거는 안하는데... 동질감을 중요하게 생각하기에..
같은 예맥계라고 볼 수 있는 만주도 그랬고 몽골도 그랬고 한국 일본 공통점임. 다수의 중국인이 있는 속에서 그들과 응전하거나 지배하거나 이 속에서 분리주의적 성향이 강함. 이거는 어떻게 할 수 없지 않나 싶은데. 그게 하루 이틀 형성된거도 아니고 수천년 길게 만년 삼한 한반도에 정착하면서 형성된 문화라 고치기가 쉽지 않을꺼.
오히려 중국은 소수 민족이 많기에 그 부분은 확실히 한일 양국과 다름. 상식적으로 생각해봐요. 한반도에서 선사유적 문물이 나오는거는 만년이 넘어감. 현재 정작한 한국인과 동일한 문화패턴과 dna가 있는. 물론 그 속에는 백인 유전자도 학계에 보고가 되고 있고. 이상한거는 몇만년전 구석기인들은 영국에 그 당시 살던 거주인과 동일한 유전자 있는 이도 발견되어 보고 되기도 함. 근데 언제부터인가 본인들이 한반도인이라고 생각하는 이들이 수천년전부터 단일한 그룹으로 형성되어 왔고 현재에 이르고 있는데 몇만년전 다부족 다민족 연맹체제로 시작했다고 하더라도 수천년간 같은 한반도인으로 살았고 이후 거의 외부인 유입 없이 국가를 형성하고 문화를 형성했던 그들이 외부인들을 다양하게 경험한 국가와 같은 선상에서 놓기 힘듦. 그만큼 견고함. 그게 몇세대가 아니라 몇백세대 이전부터 형성되어 온것이라 한국인들도 그 전통이라는 거대한 뿌리에 짓눌려 살고 있는 겁니다.
7:49. he doesn't have foreigners friends, he just has white people's friends🤣🤣🤣
Why would they look down on Southeast Asians? Seems strange. Cities like Bangkok, KL and Singapore seem pretty advanced to me.....
Maybe they are but usually people that go to another country to work labor jobs do it because they aren't doing too well financially.
@@mawishibut many Koreans who aren’t rich moved aboard to have better life since they can’t succeed in South Korea.
@@monsterrr1999 what's your point
@@mawishi my point is that we don’t treat Asians badly even if they are poor since we all starts somewhere
Koreans care so much about social status that is why. Their politeness level or respect level is based on how high you are in society. For me that's just arrogant, knowing they were one of the poorest countries in Asia in the 50's. Without the help of the US or Western countries, and some SEA countries including the Philippines who sent soldiers during the Korean War, SK could be part of China or North Korea today. So this is just one bad side of Koreans.
The seats on subways and buses in Korea are narrow. So it could be because they are not used to physical contact with unfamiliar races.
just a good answer from the front of camera but in real life they're racism. how about real world oppa they're lame
I find that everyone he interview was not being 100 % true full. The reason they give for why they don’t sit by foreigner is just nonsense to me . Because sitting by someone on a bus or train is just that sitting u a not interacting with the person. They use the fact that they are afraid because they don’t speak English as an excuse for to long now. Let just call it what it is racism and saying it a Homogeneous country as a excuse it old now. Young Korean educated ur parents because they would like u to travel out to other countries and what they do to foreigners that come to ur country happen to u.
I disagree 100% with you mate. Many koreans or asians in general really are afraid of speaking english. They know how they sound and are made fun of, they even have a joke saying the only people that are worse than them in english are the Japanese. And factually they are a homogenous country as of 2023 with no real life exposure to any other culture other than few glimpse of "foreigners" on special tv programs and youtube, most never grew up with kids of other culture growing up in korea. But hey, go ahead and believe that most koreans just hate foreigners because of their skin colour
Koreans don't like to hear both Koreans and foreigners speak English to them. Ironically, some foreigners in Korea are also afraid to speak Korean to them because their Korean language skills are very low. If they use English, it will create potential problems, but at the same time speaking broken Korean will also create another problems. 😅
Well it may have been 100% homogeneous country years ago but in 2023 it is not anymore more. There a many other countries that they language is not English. But that do not treat foreigners in that manner. U are making excuses for people with bad behavior towards others because they have never traveled out of there country?Korean is a high tech and they can learn if they want to from internet. But most of all I am not making excuses for adults who should have a moral compass and know that we a all human and u treat people the way u want to be treated it’s not hard.
@@98765432123456789000 well the ones who travel abroad acting like if the other countries should bow in front of them or treat like some kings/queens and act disrespectfull to the citizens ,even when they live abroad they dont want to integrate.
Just don’t go to this weird place period, problem solve.
I've been in Korea for 4 years and I haven't experienced the "Koreans don't want to sit next to you because you're a foreigner" situation yet. Maybe because I'm white, so as they said, I don't face as much backlash as people from South East Asia or other more melaninated ethnicities. Could it also be a size issue? Seats are quite narrow in Seoul and I have seen muscular foreigners not having anyone sit next to them (including me) because I didn't want to be squeezed. Or a smell issue? On several occasions, I had to move seats to escape some foreign guys who seemed to have emptied a can of deodorant on to their armpits.
The discrimination I mostly encounter is administrative. A lot of things are forbidden for foreigners. Discriminating on the basis of ethnicity or nationality in the workplace is also not illegal in Korea. I love my job but my workplace explicitly states in black and white that foreigners will not be paid for some tasks while Koreans will.
I did have racist encounters apart from that but they are not the majority.
I'm white and the first time it happened to me was when I was omw to my hotel from the airport 😢 the train was full but no one sat on my row. A guy walked in, was about to sit down until we made eye contact, he did a 45 degree turn and walked away. I thought it was so sad but damn funny at the same time
Black people treat Asian people differently because I been through racism working with black people. I’m not saying all but some of them treated me badly.
Was cracking jackie chan!!!!
Vietnamese and Filipinos are singled out --and they know it--so it must be true.
this is sad.
AS A FILIPINO WHOVE BEEN HATING KOREANS for 13YEARs.. i knew already this is the case.. many koreans are very racist towards filipinos.. my first encounter happened 13years ago.. year 2010.. i was just 14years old that time .. that happened here in cebu.. when a rich korean just bought a 3storey building from a filipino-canadian who is planning to migrate back to canada.. the deal included the spa, the restaurant, and the salon and the gym that was owned by the building ownwer himself. the top floor of that building serves as a motel with 40rooms... but unfortunately, the new korean owner abusing his filipino workers by giving them late payroll. and cutting off the benefits that was set by the first owner for his filipino employees. for example, if one family members of his employee died, there is a burial assistnace worth 15k. he also cut the free lunch benefits ,, his reason was, he is not yet making money.. but wyhen the employees started complaining about it.. they all kicked them out from the company after working for several years.without seperation fee. how did i know it? because my mom was th operations manager for that building for 5years.. they reported it to DOLE or department of labor and fortuantely, the law sided with them and urged the new owner to give them seperation fee. and the korean owner complied..
@@ljbunso4450필리핀의 한국대상 인종차별도 강합니다. ㅋㅋ
한국인 대상 강도 성범죄 살인.(한국에서 태어난 한국인 조차 겪고 있으며 특히 어린여자아이들이 피해를 받는다.)
일본인을 숭배하며 위안부 밈꺼지 만들며 공격하며깍아내리기
동남아인을 선호하지 않는다면 강력한 인종차별자라고 공격당하지만.
무고한 사람들이 한국인이라면 무조건 성형괴물이라고 인신공격을 합니다.(하지만 그 피해자들중 성형한 사람이 아무도 없었어요.)정작 한국 성형외과에 가득찬건 일본인 중국인 동남아인이라는 웃기지않습니까? 현실에서는 아무것도 하지않은 한국인상대로 질나쁜 소문으로 괴롭히고 물건 도난까지 하는 피해로 많은 내용이 공유됩니다.
@@ljbunso4450일본과 중국사회에서 동남아인 인권과 사회진출이 얼마나 보장되있으면 그들은 예외입니까? 스스로 피노이:자신의입으로 "우리는 친절합니다😂우리는 인종차별자가 될수없어"
Hey Jerry, what about the Korean hip hop clubs that prohibit foreigners from entering?
That would be a good topic.
내가 설명해 주지 지금도 그러는지 모르겠지만 예전에 번화가에서 일했을 당시에 일인데 외국인들 마약 하고 술 취해서 여성들한테 성추행 하거나 다른 사람한테 행패 부리는 걸 많이 봤다 약에 취한 인간은 정말 가끔 봤지만 술 취해서 행패 부리는 외국인들 많이 봤다
한국인을 인종차별주의자로 몰아넣으면서 유튜브 광고로 돈을 벌어. 이 영상의 로직을 배운건가?😢 th-cam.com/users/shortsBcpOufqR0yo?si=8oJfl26-nmiVE5_i
The Korean wave won't last forever. In a few years many people will have moved on from the Korean experience and you can have your country back. Don't worry ❤
@@ILIVEAGOODLIFE I hope this happens sooner than later. All that money, time and attention are better invested in other worldly matters.
I always wondered why people don't sit next to me on Korean subway... that makes perfect sense... they don't want me to start talking to them 🤣😂😓
Sorry. They are afraid of.…. Speaking English 😅 Koreans have “영어 울렁증”meaning “English -phobia” 😂
Unrelated, but I was in Japan for 2 weeks and looked forward to people not sitting next to me because I was a foreigner (cause I like more space), but ironically, this never happened.😅🙃🤣🙃 No one seemed to care that I was a foreigner, lol. I guess I'll try again in Korea. 😁😊🙃
Because Japan is civilized unlike South Korea.
actully s.korea is more less racisms then america and europe , did you head black person killed in korea 🤔well in America we head and watch everyday
This is very true honestly and my skin is this complexion 👍🏾. The U.S. is the worst in the world for violence and the worst in the world for racism. Now with that being said. Although S. Korea isn’t the WORST there is still room for improvement
But we already know about the US. He is asking about South Korea.
@@camfreed9829 Thank you for saying that. I'm also Korean, but if there's a black person or foreigner, I'll be careful that I might be racist, and if they ask me for help, I'll do my best to help them.
@@user-bo7cs5eq7x we thank you and are very grateful for your kindness and respect my Korean brother, I will do the same on this side. May peace be with you 🙏🏾
Wow! They are putting the blame solely on the older generation. Older Koreans can be incredibly racist and xenophobic, but so can the younger generation. Living in Korea, you will meet good and bad people regardless of the generation. I just wish some would just mind their own business and stop harassing foreigners who are just existing.
Lol, right. And guess if the old Korean folks were interviewed they'd put the blame on the youth. That's Korea for you 😂
The apple really doesn't fall far from the tree I guess
It is easy to blame others, but hard to have self reflection. I guess when people are bored, they invent something to fight for. As I was gowing up there was no 'official' racism issue, bc 99% of the population was Korean. I barely would run into people from other countries. People invented something to fight against one another. Like blaming the oppisite gender, or blaming upper or down gernerations. People will be always that way. Or vegan or non Vegan
넌 한국인 차별주의자같은데?? ㅋ
Don't come closer to me because... I cannot speak English!
Скадем так, корейцы гораздо дружелюбнее к иностранцам. Я кореянка из России, мнргонациональной страны, скажу так, осколяли , было всякое. Но у нас к этому привычны. Нас учили давать сдачу. Если меня будут оскорблять, я не буду молчать. Унитожу физически, интеллектуально. Как могу.
When I was in highschool, I had a Korean friend. We had a new Indian classmate and our homeroom teacher tasked us to show her around. The 3 of us chatted and she left for another class. My Korean friend turned to me and said, "hey, do you notice these people have a certain foul stench?". I was shocked. It was another side of her I never expected, as she was a straight A student. She was giggling and meant every word. Since then I met hundreds of Koreans who were far more racist.
Sure Jan
The last woman in white t shirt is lying. How can she know what the US Japanese couple was saying. Can she understand Japanese? Even so, she could be lying to slander Japanese. Koreans often do that
@@hikjee Right, Japanese would almost never be that vocal. And Korean tourists in the past have also accused Japanese restaurants of putting too much wasabi in their sushi, demanding refunds etc.
@@hikjee what's more baffling is how could an American or even Japanese tell she was Korean at a glance? Yup, lying.
@@hikjee yes, they do that. And many Korean women pretend to be Japanese abroad when working in spas and massage parlors. They know Japanese are in demand.
@@sara.cbc92you’re right, she was probably lying. I lived in Japan for over 3 years, Japanese people are not as vocal and they tend to mind their own business in public.
@@AndIwandermuch yes, even if they do have bad opinions of others Japanese keep it to themselves. It's a huge part of their culture (tatemae) even if subconsciously. This Korean woman probably thought she could slip in a bad word about Japan hoping it may go viral.
I am Laotian and I have a cousin living in South Korea, I hope they are treating her well.
Tell him or her stop committing crimes
They would have came back if they weren't treated well.
@@user-lw8tq3qs1p did you just assume her cousin is doing crimes in korea just because she’s laotian? sounds r@cist to me
@@qbuw so many southeast asians are causing torubles
@@user-lw8tq3qs1p so, you assumed her cousin is committing crimes even when you don’t have proof, but you only based this on the term “southeast asians,” got it. koreans are really racist towards SEA😂 you wouldn’t have made your first comment if she had said her cousin was european/american. congratulations, you just proved the topic of the video👏🏼
they cant distinguish racism and discrimination or hatred.