Bigs: You *can* but it certainly helps to be white, American, 22, female and a c+ cup...
rampancy: Heh. Not that it comes as a surprise to anyone who's spent any amount of time working as an expat in SK...
http://www.koreaobserver.com/chung-dahm-under-fire-for-employing-whites-only-27547/
http://www.waygook.org/index.php?topic=43708.0 dick1982: i've only ever heard of an half-white/irish singaporean teaching english in japan, not korea. and i check the spammed URLs, they're online gambling websites.
rampancy: I can assure you, there are brown and black people teaching English in Korea, and
pervasive racism issues aside (heh), one can actually have a pretty good time of it too, provided one has a thick skin and a willingness to adjust to the culture. I will say that attitudes have slowly but surely been changing. Incidents of racist jokes in the Korean media have been met with a growing backlash from Koreans themselves, especially younger Koreans.
I also realized the spam posts were for online gambling websites, as the later spam threads had "Ka-Si-No" in Hangeul. ;)
dick1982: it's probably safer than middle east if that means anything. they've been isolating cases better than most asian countries would.
rampancy: While the MERS situation in SK is nothing to really panic about, the government has come
under fire for, in large part, failing to properly manage the situation. Quarantines were not enforced, and vital information was withheld from the public to save face on the part of the hospital admins. Potential carriers were allowed to leave hospitals of their own recognizance, even going so far as to
recklessly expose others to the disease.
I have heard of anti Korean sentiment in Japan right now.