Irish person denied job in Korea due to ''the alcoholism nature of your kind''

Iwasfrozen · 05-11-2014 11:15PM

Lucy and Harry wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/irish-person-denied-job-in-korea-due-to-the-alcoholism-nature-of-your-kind-649915.html Shocking

Maybe when I sober up in the morning I will not be so shocked.hic hic :pac:

Horrible behavior I hope they have an equalities law over there so the guy can get some compensation.

The Koreans don't have a stellar reputation with drink either!

DrumSteve · 05-11-2014 11:16PM

Sounds like a really bad Korea move to me.

Nodin · 05-11-2014 11:30PM

wprathead wrote: »

*sniff sniff*
Smells like bullsh!t to me

I'd say you're right there.

ireland.man · 05-11-2014 11:31PM

Well it's on Reddit so it must be true.

Seriously, most Koreans barely know Ireland exists. They don't have any of these Western stereotypes about our tiny island.

Plus, nobody would be stupid enough to put in an email such a reason for rejection. The country has issues with discrimination but even the most narrow minded bosses know how to hide their prejudices when it matters.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a 'Go fund me' page in the coming days asking for legal expenses to fight this awful discrimination in court

SeantheMan · 06-11-2014 12:43AM

Everyone up in arms about this, it's a private academy. Maybe has 15-20 students max.
This is a statement from one TINY little businessman or businesswoman, and everyone is assuming ALL Korea is like this. It's not the case.
Don't let this one small minded person's opinion change your view of a whole nation.

It's similar to the sign for "No Loud Americans" that an Irish pub owner put outside her pub recently. It doesn't go for the whole country.

Some have rules set out beforehand, such as only women need apply and certain age groups, or people from certain countries need only apply.

This isn't the way it normally is in Korea however. Public school systems are different, however being a private tutoring academy they can pick and choose who they like.

kowloon · 06-11-2014 01:18AM

They know all about us thanks to this little gem.

crybaby · 06-11-2014 01:26AM

South Koreans are notorious drunks but they know how to hide it well when its time to go to work

Slicemeister · 06-11-2014 01:29AM

Beats the mundane **** reasons they use here.

Spunge · 06-11-2014 03:02AM

kowloon wrote: »

They know all about us thanks to this little gem.

haha wat the fud

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 06-11-2014 05:06AM

The main thing most Korean women know about Ireland is that it's featured in 'PS I love you' and they ****ing love that film.

R.D. aka MR.D · 06-11-2014 05:56AM

My name is URL wrote: »

That's putting it mildly. Story seems like bullshit to me

I doubt very many Koreans would be aware of Irish stereotypes

Totally agree.

I lived in Korea for a year and a half and this thing seems like BS.

Even the phrasing 'of your kind', seems very fishy to have been written by a Korean person.

The_Valeyard · 06-11-2014 01:14PM

R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »

Totally agree.

I lived in Korea for a year and a half and this thing seems like BS.

Even the phrasing 'of your kind', seems very fishy to have been written by a Korean person.

This is all a plot by Kim Jon Un to undermine the reputation of South Korea, that's where he was, during his 'absence' setting up phoney accounts to annoy the world on craigslist.

topper75 · 06-11-2014 01:37PM

kowloon wrote: »

They know all about us thanks to this little gem.

Hold on - a lot of people here have seen, let's say, the movie Fargo. But ask the average Joe/Josephine out there in an Irish street to name the capital of the state of Minnesota or give you any stereotypes about the citizens of that state... they'd be stumped. The average Korean knows jack about us similarly.

This email is bogus. That's OK. Young attention seekers create bogus stuff. Respectable media organs on the other hand should know a lot better. The joys of the internet age I suppose.

nokia69 · 06-11-2014 02:05PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

The main thing most Korean women know about Ireland is that it's featured in 'PS I love you' and they ****ing love that film.

which is interesting because the whole thing is just a rip off of a korean film called the letter

force eleven · 06-11-2014 02:17PM

Whenever I have a hangover, I use the hair of the dog that bit me to get over it. Would be in the right place then.

Egginacup · 06-11-2014 02:40PM

Yurt! wrote: »

http://www.blackoutkorea.com/

Seoul is the only major developed world city I've been to where it's completely acceptable to pass out drunk anywhere you want. The above blog is no aberration, you see salary-men conked out in subway stations, benches in the street, in parks at any time of the day or night. School kids step around them as if it's the most normal thing in the world. In their defense nobody robs them or beats them up when they're in that state.

I'd rank them in the top 5 most drinkingiest nationalities, with Finns, Irish, English and Russians.

Jesus Christ!! I know that Orientals have no tolerance for alcohol in that they can't metabolise it properly so get leathered much easier than blacks or whites......but are Koreans especially vulnerable to inebriation?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 06-11-2014 02:48PM

Egginacup wrote: »

Jesus Christ!! I know that Orientals have no tolerance for alcohol in that they can't metabolise it properly so get leathered much easier than blacks or whites......but are Koreans especially vulnerable to inebriation?

No they just drink a lot of soju and then pass out. And if you pass out on the street in Korea, you will probably remain there until you move yourself.

Whats especially noteworthy is that so many of the Koreans passed out on the street are middle-aged men rather than the teenagers or students you see in Ireland.

ireland.man · 06-11-2014 03:55PM

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29929333

Looks like 'Katie' is real. Interesting. Maybe the anonymity of craigslist allowed the recruiter to vent their passive aggression to applicants.

barry181091 · 06-11-2014 04:24PM

ireland.man wrote: »

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29929333

Looks like 'Katie' is real. Interesting. Maybe the anonymity of craigslist allowed the recruiter to vent their passive aggression to applicants.

Looks like 'Katie' is tashte, more to the point.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 06-11-2014 04:55PM

http://news.kukinews.com/article/view.asp?gCode=int&arcid=0008833124&code=41131111

The Korean media's take. If there's anyone who knows more in Korean than 맥주 주세요, please do a proper translation.

EDIT: Another one, even better because of the picture.

http://www.fnnews.com/news/201411061136002553

Frank Lee Midere · 06-11-2014 05:50PM

Yellow Privilege

the evasion_kid · 06-11-2014 06:10PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

http://news.kukinews.com/article/view.asp?gCode=int&arcid=0008833124&code=41131111

The Korean media's take. If there's anyone who knows more in Korean than 맥주 주세요, please do a proper translation.

EDIT: Another one, even better because of the picture.

http://www.fnnews.com/news/201411061136002553

Here's google translate version: " 'Irish drinking culture' to blame Yeah rejected that online discrimination controversial Irish damsel days' Irish Mirror has reported 5 days (local time). A recruitment agencies in Korea, according to official reports of job applicants 'catty' women of Ireland recently sent In the e-mail. "For Job a request by the customer due to Irish drinking culture would not hire you'

Lucy and Harry · 06-11-2014 06:30PM

She is a good looking girl too.We should send a TD over to show our anger at Korea.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 06-11-2014 07:06PM

There appears to be a lot of Japanese flags behind her in that photo. Maybe that's why the Koreans wouldn't hire her.

mikemac1 · 06-11-2014 07:09PM

So when are we invading?

Kermit.de.frog · 06-11-2014 07:25PM

I know most laugh at something like this but the reality is that we do ourselves no favors at all with the image portrayed and actually encouraged by us as essentially a nation of drunks.

I really think we should be more careful and that we need to stop associating Ireland with drinking particularly abroad - see Obama with pint etc. It is not needed and I think it does our reputation damage overall.

Wompa1 · 06-11-2014 07:27PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

The main thing most Korean women know about Ireland is that it's featured in 'PS I love you' and they ****ing love that film.

Ditto the American women. If I have to say I'm from Ireland, they ask where, when I say Galway. They say ohhh like that song in PS I love you..

Vincent Vega · 06-11-2014 07:44PM

kowloon wrote: »

They know all about us thanks to this little gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYnso41pInU

My name is URL · 06-11-2014 09:20PM

R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »

Totally agree.

I lived in Korea for a year and a half and this thing seems like BS.

Even the phrasing 'of your kind', seems very fishy to have been written by a Korean person.

Yeah, if anything it's the recruiter (probably European themselves) trolling or just being a dick.

I can't believe this has made news all over the world, it's a bit mad. It's hardly newsworthy that there's a problem with discrimination in Korean culture.

Yurt2 · 06-11-2014 09:42PM

I love Koreans and Korea, but they can be a profoundly xenophobic and ethnocentric people. The notions they hold about Africans, Chinese and South East Asians are ridiculous. Get a Korean drunk and ask them about X nationality and listen to the ridiculous rumours ,urban myths and stereotypes fly.

I don't think it's racism per se, more like a defence mechanism by a country that has been incredibly ethnically uniform for so long and have had a history of being China and Japan's whipping boys for centuries.

Still, it gets out of hand at times. A pub in Itaewon (the most diverse quarter of Seoul) banned Africans outright because he didn't want anyone contracting Ebola.

Irish person denied job in Korea due to ''the alcoholism nature of your kind''

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