Crusade Against Discrimination

There was an incident in Korea a few months back on July 10th, where an Indian national was discriminated against due to the color of his skin.  A drunken Korean male thought he was Arab, and was spouting racial slurs against them.  They went to the police station, and the police ordered the victim to apologize to the Korean verbal assailant.  Since then there has been a national debate about discrimination.

His article today in the Korean Herald though condemned the media for ignoring the sexism and even physical attack against his friend a Korean female.  He has had numerous complaints from anonymous victims detailing how they were attacked because they married or dated a non-Korean.  Combined with my own observations and stories about numerous, and do mean numerous assaults and sexual harassment upon women, both Korean and foreigner alike, I don't find this surprising.  What is troublesome is the numerous problems of rape and child molestation in Korean, and how sexual predators get light sentences because they can say they were drunk at the time.

For more information, you can check out this article in the Korean Herald: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/11/06/200911060045.asp