Worldly Curio

July 6, 2018

A protest against Yemeni refugees reveals how South Korea has been 'educated to think about foreigners'

PRI's The World

5 CQ

In recent months, hundreds of people fleeing the war in Yemen have arrived at a tourist destination off the coast of South Korea. But neither the government in Seoul, or the South Korean public, seems to want them to stay. Produced by: Matthew Bell. Image credit: Ed Jone/AFP/Getty Images.

Aired July 5, 2018

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2 Comments

CLKnight 2

In the wake of the European Migrant Crisis this isn’t too surprising. They are aware of what’s happening there and while the ethnic-nationalistic mindset is taboo in the West, that is not the case in the east. You can argue that the Yemeni have legitimate reason to leave but the Koreans still have no reason or inclination to accept them. At the end of the day Far East Asia is a completely different world when it comes to these sort of things, and it’s doubtful they’ll care what others think.

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Chris R

If they signed international agreement to grant asylum then yes they do have a reason to accept them. I understand some of the SK concerns like they weren't a colonial power however the reaction against people is the problem. It's clearly the policy they don't like. People lose sight of that abstraction though and sometimes feel being horrible to other people, different from themselves, is then somehow justifiable.