Australian woman alleges S. Koreans were racist to M’sian friend

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Jazmyn claims that her Malaysian friend was “mostly ignored” after Koreans found out her nationality.

South Korea is a highly regarded tourist destination, there have been many accounts of xenophobia and racism throughout the years by international travellers.quoted from US News & World Report that South Korea is listed in ninth place out of 79 countries globally for racism.

She added that despite being visibly ignored, the Malaysian woman helped translate what the South Koreans said to her and vice versa.The Malaysian woman, in Jazmyn’s words, “had tea towels thrown at her” and “sworn at” for doing nothing. “The taxi driver, he was quite old. After he found out what country we were from and he found out that she was Malaysian - same thing - completely refused to speak to her.“ was only asking me questions and again, she was translating. It was disgusting to see the way people’s attitudes changed towards her as soon as they found out that she was Malaysian,” she added.

 

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