Racial Discrimination In Korea Essay

In Korea, according to decrease in population of farm village rapidly from 1970s, men of farm village could not marry because of lack of women. Men of farm village chose marriage with women who is from East Asia so population of foreign bride increased. After 2000s, labor costs of Korean people become high and Korean people started to avoid 3D (Difficult, Dangerous, Dirty) industries. Instead of Korean, people from East Asia came to Korea and became foreign workers for 3D industries. Also, these days, Korean people have fervor for education and they think foreign languages are very important. Because of this situation, many schools and academies demand foreign native teachers. So, many types of races came to Korea and it caused racial discrimination against native Korean. To make a harmonious society and help people suffering from racial discrimination, we have to face the reality, recognize the reality well and make stronger plan for conquest. First of all, I will focus on reality of racial discrimination in Korea. Through the press, media, and around our society, racial and cultural prejudice has appeared. In the past, there were not so many foreigners living in Korea. That caused confusion to our society today. Because Korean people had much pride that Korea was a single nation for a long time, they thought they were superior to foreigners. This pride came into conflict with multiple cultures. To adapt to this societal change, our government makes multi-cultural policies and each department participates in multi-cultural businesses. Local governments, private organizations, and even religious groups pay attention to multiple cultures. Also, people are discussing multiple cultures in the academic world. However, in spite of some effort, discrimination, disgust, and human rights abuse are still happening. Many foreigners who went to Korea with a Korean dream are disappointed with Korea. Second, speaking concretely, there is an example of Korea’s discrimination. My native teacher who was a English teacher in my school was black. One year ago, the teacher went to the restaurant to eat dinner with his family. He entered the restaurant; however, the owner of the restaurant refused my teacher entering the restaurant. He was furious with it; he had no choice but to come out of the restaurant. Coming out of the restaurant, he saw white foreigners entering the restaurant. My teacher thought that they would be evicted from the restaurant, but they would not. It meant that the teacher was ejected just because of the black skin. There are no rules which say that people who have black skin can be prevented from anywhere. Like this, discrimination in Korea is …show more content…
For some reasons such as international marriage, studying abroad, foreign working, the number of foreigners of Korea increased rapidly and it produced a lot of troubles. Living in a single-race nation, Korean people were very embarrassed with foreigners who had different races against Korean people and it made foreigners suffer from racial discrimination. To improve Korea’s image and keep equal rights of foreigners who experienced racial discrimination, we have to make stronger solutions than now. Powerful and specific laws could have people alert to racial prejudice. Above all things, the most significant thing is our attitude. Without stereotypes of races, there will be no racial discrimination. Before making some stronger solutions, we need to change our