Sorry, you're right that it's potentially not the largest, just one of the largest. I fail to see how the article is trash; all articles "follow a pretty clear agenda" because that's why things are written. I imagine it's hard to find online because it wouldn't be in English. My guess is it's this or something like this. http://crisis-center.or.kr/
Regardless, to dismiss this article as "trash" seems a bit heavy handed. What about the "agenda" do you disagree with? Sexual violence by white American men who go over to parts of Asia for specifically sex tourism as a well documented and accepted fact. What part of that violence extending to South Korea is unbelievable to you?
My guess is it’s this or something like this. http://crisis-center.or.kr/
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The fact that the only seemingly factual information given also ends up being guesswork is why I dislike it so much.
What about the “agenda” do you disagree with?
If the goal was to explore the issues of white men exploiting and raping women in Korea, then I don't disagree necessarily, even though I disagree with trying to prove your agenda instead of trying to disproof your beliefs and the bias coming with it, which is what the whole thing feels like. My biggest issue with this article is that it makes a lot of broad claims, and oversimplifies Korean society, but never even attempts to back anything up.
Let's take this paragraph as an example:
So white bodies, hot with yellow fever, come to the city in search of wild Korean girls; yellow bodies seek whiteness. These two axes of desire, however, are never equal because their mobility is not equal. The mobility of whiteness means that white bodies can wade through borders freely with no consequence. To these white bodies, Korea is never the destination; it is a stop off. They travel, make easy money, observe the culture, and indulge in their vices–experiences that enrich and entertain, but never quite change them. The retention of whiteness always enable them to return to themselves, to pick up their lives where they left off. Korean women do not share this mobility, nor the retention. Constrained by borders, racism, and language, they cannot move freely; their immobile bodies absorb the cost of whiteness.
Besides me hating the choice of words, "yellow bodies", "white bodies", why would "whiteness" inherently grant mobility and why are Korean women unable to leave the country? Based on passports, they have one of the most powerful ones, they live in one of the richest Asian countries and generally receive good education. Why can't they move freely? Which borders are limiting them, and how does racism prevent them from moving? There have been millions of Koreans who have moved abroad, how was their situation differently? Is this caused by immense social inequality and is she talking about poor women who have no other hope to make money? Are there any numbers to show the extend of the problem she is talking about?
The normalization and prevalence of sexual violence against Korean women by white men demonstrate the material consequence of the unequal distribution of mobility.
Where is this normalisation coming from? How is it being normalised? Is she still talking about that one time she overheard two dumb Americans partying, which still feels to me like the sole reason she wrote this.
The Rape Crisis Center’s record quantifies this kind of assault as a third of its annual cases, but I wonder what the recorded incidents amount to and how many go unrecorded.
Sorry, you're right that it's potentially not the largest, just one of the largest. I fail to see how the article is trash; all articles "follow a pretty clear agenda" because that's why things are written. I imagine it's hard to find online because it wouldn't be in English. My guess is it's this or something like this. http://crisis-center.or.kr/
Regardless, to dismiss this article as "trash" seems a bit heavy handed. What about the "agenda" do you disagree with? Sexual violence by white American men who go over to parts of Asia for specifically sex tourism as a well documented and accepted fact. What part of that violence extending to South Korea is unbelievable to you?
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. The fact that the only seemingly factual information given also ends up being guesswork is why I dislike it so much.
If the goal was to explore the issues of white men exploiting and raping women in Korea, then I don't disagree necessarily, even though I disagree with trying to prove your agenda instead of trying to disproof your beliefs and the bias coming with it, which is what the whole thing feels like. My biggest issue with this article is that it makes a lot of broad claims, and oversimplifies Korean society, but never even attempts to back anything up.
Let's take this paragraph as an example:
Besides me hating the choice of words, "yellow bodies", "white bodies", why would "whiteness" inherently grant mobility and why are Korean women unable to leave the country? Based on passports, they have one of the most powerful ones, they live in one of the richest Asian countries and generally receive good education. Why can't they move freely? Which borders are limiting them, and how does racism prevent them from moving? There have been millions of Koreans who have moved abroad, how was their situation differently? Is this caused by immense social inequality and is she talking about poor women who have no other hope to make money? Are there any numbers to show the extend of the problem she is talking about?
Where is this normalisation coming from? How is it being normalised? Is she still talking about that one time she overheard two dumb Americans partying, which still feels to me like the sole reason she wrote this.
I guess she has no clue either...