You know sometimes when I’m reading through the latest blog posts out there I stumble across one so egregious that I can’t help but write about it. I found this post this morning very disturbing: Brian in Jeollanam-do: Anti-English Spectrum head to LA Times: “It’s not stalking, it’s following,”
His Anti English Spectrum post covers a Los Angeles Time article about the group’s leader, Yie Eun-Woong.
Read it as soon as you can. Done? Alrighty then, can you believe that guy?
Yie waves off the criticism. “It’s not stalking, it’s following,” he said. “There’s no law against that.”
The thoughts of a warped mind. I can’t believe he gets away with stuff like that. How is not ruining the reputation of people with innuendo and skewed facts not against the law? I thought Korea was supposed to have some of the most severe anti slander legislation around?
Yie and his rabble rousing group use fear tactics to stir up ill will toward English teachers to what end? Does he want every teacher deported? Who would be next? Military? Businessmen? Chinese mail-order brides? Who knows what his end game is. Maybe he will only be satisfied when Korea is full of only 100% blood Koreans.
Of course then he’ll have no one to scape goat and will have to turn that beacon on his own people and himself.
Thankfully the times provided a photo so you can be on guard agaisnt any following!
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I’m a blogger, writer, and teacher. I’ve been working in South Korea’s ESL field for the last three years. My one year contract has unexpectedly turned into a journey that I’m still on and loving.
At least he was able to bring the Expat/teaching community together in a way that might have been pretty tough before (e.g., ATEK,).
I take him seriously only because he’s clearly a troubled guy.
I agree. That’s about the only good thing this guy and his group have done.
Bottom line, then I’m not coming back to this topic again:
At this stage, the less press he gets (and the fewer reasons we give him as Expats for going to the press), the better.
I was targeted by these losers……
I am a professional, non-drug-using guy who isn’t “sexual harassing or “abusing” girls. I was accused of these things!!!!!
Not only was i slandered. I could have been fined, sent to jail, deported AND had my career ruined for the rest of my life.
My job says “everything is okay, just put it under the rug.” However, they will NOT rehire me because of these shmucks. Will they give me a good reference? They only say that they will.
THERE ARE LAWYERS IN KOREA WHO CAN ACTUALLY HELP YOU. ANTI ENGLISH SPECTRUM FEARS THESE LAWYERS
John I’m sorry that hapened to you. If everything is okay as the school says then they should rehire you. What is the contact info for these lawyers who could help out someone if they find themselves in the same situation?
Ha! Becareful he’ll probably take you up on that and offer a job and then set you up for breaking your E2 visa.
He’s the real reason why i carry around pepper spray and have a paintball gun at home. Maybe if he “follows” me home and i “accidently” shoot him with said paintball gun, maybe he’ll look into getting a new hobby. god knows he cant be making any money doing this. and if he is….. can he get me a job?
I had this to say… I suggest a firm kick in the pants.
Rebecca had this to say….Jane : True that. Or maybe a brain transplant?
Brian : He’d have you deported for that.
One extremist (or whatever you want to call this guy) I can handle. The scariest part of the article for me was those writing in response to justify putting some innocent people in harm’s way in order to weed out the bad ones. So a few foreigners have to be assaulted by disgruntled and uninformed Korean activists…it’s for the common good. Really? Is it really?
about an hour ago ·
Jane had this to say…Sounds like dude needs to get some ass…or a hobby.
Kalli had this to say…Gees… some people have too much time on their hands and just don’t know how to utilize it well.