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Originally Posted by AngelAfterlife
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"n July 2009, Bonojit Hussein, an Indian national who was working as a research professor at Sungkonghoe University, was called "Dirty" and "Pitch-black foreigner" by (first name withheld) Park while riding on a bus. Park also questioned Hussein's companion, a South Korean woman, whether "she was a real Korean woman" and "how it felt going out with pitch-black foreigner?" Hussein then reported Park to local police. A police officer who arrived on the scene told Hussein that "there's no racial discrimination in Korea". The policeman also said to Park, "Why did you, a good-looking man dressed in a suit, treat a man who's having a hard life here poorly?" in Hussein's presence. At the police station, while policemen talked to Park in formal Korean, Hussein was spoken to in informal Korean. Policemen questioned Hussein, "How can a man born in 1982 become a research professor? Really, what is that you do?[7] After this story was reported on national media, National Human Rights Association gave a warning to the policeman then recommended that the policemen be educated in human rights. The case of Hussein was a landmark case as it was the first time the National Human Rights Association ordered a 'Recommendation Measure' for a racial discrimination case and led to prosecution for a racial comment for the first time as well.[8]"
I'm going to go ahead and say "pitch-black" does not mean white.