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During the time when migrant workers in S.K. were fighting publicly, especially during our sit-in struggle in Myeong-dong (Nov. 2003 until Dec. 2004) the reports for example about the "Borderless Village" in Ansan (a city on the edge of Seoul), even in the bourgeois media were a kind of positive..

But now, it seems that the situation complete changed.. The S.K. bourgeois media, such as Korea Times, CBS, SBS.. are now increasing their reactionary, racist propaganda against migrant workers.

One really strange example is following article, published in the latest "Weekly Korea" (주간한국, the weekly magazine of Honkook Ilbo/Korea Times):

Foreigners Turning Urban Areas into Lawless Zones

Residential Neighborhoods with Many Foreigners, Lawless Zones when the Sun Goes Down: Scary Night Streets, Foreigner Crimes Rising Daily… High Crime Zones Devoid of Public Authority Appearing..

“I’m afraid to walk around at night.  With herds of foreigners swarming around frightening me, I’m also scared I might be harmed.  I firmly warn even my middle school daughter.”..

Mrs. Oh (46), a resident of Wongok-dong (in Ansan), a neighborhood that has become known as Korea’s “Borderless Village,” said that as the neighborhood fills up with foreigners, it has grown savage and desolate.  Choe In-song (82), who calls himself a Wongok-dong native, said, “As the number of foreigners grows, the neighborhood is growing increasingly disorderly and women are avoiding walking around at night.”..

Although there were differences in degree, most of the Wolgok-dong residents this reporter met were wary of foreign laborers. Some, citing panicky rumors of sexual crimes and violent crimes, expressed animosity [toward the foreign laborers]... etc..

Read the entire f.. sh.. here:

☞ 외국인 밀집 거주지역, 해만 떨어지면 '무법천지' (주간한국, 6.11)

Somehow related:

☞ 불법체류자 밀집된 천안·아산에 태국 '조폭' 활개 (CBS)

☞ 외국인 밀집지역서 강력범죄 잇따라 '불안' (SBS)

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Well, while I have been living in S.K. I visited many times Ansan and never I had the feeling that the citizens there had major problems with the "foreign"/migrant workers. On several occesions, for example when the immigration police was hitting the migrant community, representatives of Ansan's (Wolgok-dong) Korean community joined our demonstrations and even took the stage to express their solidarity with our struggle.

Just check out this:

☞ ..Borderless Village 2007 New Years Festival (MWTV)