Seoul - South Korea is proposing a foreign travel ban for citizens who have committed misdeeds overseas, in an attempt to protect the nation's image, officials said on Wednesday
Ugly Koreans" is a media-coined term referring to people caught buying sex or committing crimes overseas. Fin24 05/04/2006
おもしろい記事ですね。
海外で買春した渡航者のビザ停止を提案
１）日本も昔よく話題になっていましたが、現在が韓国なのですかね。
２）動機が買春の悪というより、国家イメージだというところがすごい。
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"Ugly Koreans" is a phrase used for many years, and it doesn't just apply to Koreans buying sex abroad. Like the term "Ugly Americans" from which it is derived, it is meant as a criticism—by Koreans—of obnoxious behavior by some Koreans when they travel abroad or behave boorishly (in Korea) in front of non-Koreans.
There's a whole book on the subject.
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