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Mar 4, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: 516 more cases of coronavirus confirmed in S. Korea, now total of 5,328. yna.co.kr/view/AKR202003…
Latest coronavirus figures out of South Korea as of 12:00 AM, March 4.

5,328 confirmed cases, of which:

- 5,255 quarantined
- 41 discharged
- 32 deaths

Suspected cases (131,379) of which:

- 28,414 being tested
- 102,965 cleared. Image
South Korea has also officially tested/testing over 136,707 people so far for COVID-19.

10,856 were tested/being tested as of yesterday (March 3) alone.

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Feb 2
While I'm used to online insults, one that I've noticed being repeated across Korean social media about me is "he's a Muslim Pakistani" or "isn't he from Pakistan?" to explain my "hate" for Korea.

Being neither, I can only conclude that this "insult" is based on skin colour.
I'm not here to play the victim card: I really don't care. I just find it fascinating that I've been placed in a category that I didn't know I was myself (I don't think I have blood from Pakistan, but maybe they know better) and I guess it's their assumption based on skin colour.
Had I boasted about my alleged heritage, I can understand how it could be turned into a "go back to Pakistan" insult, but in this case, I've literally never made such claims.

In Korea, it seems skin colour is used to justify hating someone online, and "Muslim" becomes an insult.
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Feb 1
Yoon Suk-yeol, S. Korea's leading conservative presidential candidate, is now fuelling xenophobia to win cheap votes, pledging to solve "problem" of foreigners and their dependents leaching on the national health insurance system.

Foreigners actually pay more than they receive. Image
On a recent Facebook post, he mentions that among the top 10 foreign workers who registered the most dependents, they each had 7-10 family members registered. Also says that among the top ten recipients of health care, 8 were Chinese, of which 6 were dependents.
Yoon then goes on to say the person who received the most health care benefits is Chinese, and over the past 5 years has received about 3.3 billion won in health insurance benefits as a dependent, but only contributed 10% from their own pocket.
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Sep 12, 2021
Donald Trump currently delivering speech at Unification Church event on a "Heavenly Unified Korea" 🥴
Excerpts from Donald Trump's speech:
Shinzo Abe too!
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Sep 11, 2021
Hankyoreh interviews one of the Afghan interpreters who recently arrived in South Korea. Extracts:

"Many Afghans believe that, unlike Westerners, Koreans are polite and trustworthy, and genuinely helped without hidden political or military intentions."

hani.co.kr/arti/internati…
"In particular, there was a lot of progress in education, health, rural development, and vocational training in Parwan Province, where Korea was in charge of reconstruction. Koreans helped in a way that ‘taught them how to fish instead of giving them fish’."
"As rumours spread that the medical treatment at Korean-run hospitals was excellent, patients came from all over Parwan, Kabul, as well as from the border areas between Pakistan and Iran."
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Jul 23, 2021
South Korean broadcaster MBC used images to "represent" each country during the #Tokyo2020 Opening Ceremony.

Italy: pizza
Norway: salmon
Haiti: upheaval
Ukraine: Chernobyl ImageImageImageImage
When Haitian athletes entered the stadium, an on-screen explanation said "the political situation is fogged by the assassination of the president." When Syrian athletes entered, it said "rich underground resources; a civil war that has been going on for 10 years."
For the Marshall Islands, it said "was once a nuclear test site for the US, and is composed of more than 1,200 islands." El Salvador was introduced with a picture representing Bitcoin. Image
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Jul 6, 2021
"Miracle" reunion after 62 years: At the age of 4, Jin Myung-sook (now 66) lost her way at market, got separated from family. She was reunited yesterday thanks to Korean police's genetic analysis system. Holding back her tears, she hugged her eldest brother, Jeong Hyung-gon (76).
In the summer of 1959, Myung-sook, who was 4 years old at the time, lost her way near Baedari Market in Incheon while following her younger brother on way to meet their father. She didn't know her address or last name, just that she was called "Myung-sook."
In the end, her name was changed to "Jin Myung-sook" after the priest's family name at a nursery, and she was eventually adopted by a nun in South Chungcheong Province. After the age of 40, she decided to try find her family despite having no memory of them and different surname.
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