First S Korea racism conviction
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8382087.stm Version 0 of 1. A South Korean man has been fined one million won ($865; £520) for making discriminatory remarks against an Indian professor. The conviction is the country's first involving racist remarks towards a foreigner, Incheon District Court officials told local media. The man yelled racist comments and said "Arab! Arab!" at the Indian man while on a bus in July, the judge said. The professor felt publically insulted by the comments, he added. The 31-year-old South Korean had objected to Bonogit Hussain talking loudly on a bus. Mr Hussain had been in South Korea since 2007 and had studied for a master's degree from Seoul's SungKongHoe University, later working as a research professor there. Park could have faced up to one year in prison and 2 million won in fines for public insult, Associated Press reported. |