Welcome to America. Now get out.

5 07 2006

From NPR:

At least these kids weren’t being exported to old people, but damn. In how many more ways can Korean kids get the cross-cultural shaft?

5 07 2006: gar (22:19:49) :

Geez, that’s seriously shady. Swindling families of their hard-earned money and then throwing adolescent kids who arrive as total strangers into situations like that?

How low can you get…

“Welcome to America. Give us your f!$king money, kid.”
6 07 2006: Papa2hapa (05:55:39) :

Yes, horrible. But what is horrifying is that the Korean parents seem to be the ones to blame here.
6 07 2006: Patti (11:37:12) :

You know, I had heard a similar story about a kid who was from a European country (I don’t remember which). Friends of ours ended up taking her to live with them after some disturbing things happened with her host family.

It really scares me, and makes me sick that any child could be put in such a dangerous situation.
6 07 2006: Oanh (17:11:31) :

This reminds me of an incident with a work-mate.

She is a mother of grown up kids, and she was the home-stay for a Korean exchange student. On the day he arrived, she comes into my office – which I share with a Korean Australian whom she is better friends with than she is with me. She announces: My boy’s arrived!

I walk out before I say something inappropriate in a workplace environment. Such commodification of a human being. So repulsive.
9 07 2006: Jenny (16:39:28) :

Man, that Buddha looks sexy!

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