Blue-Eyed Foreigners
Re: “Welcome, Blue-Eyed President”
I'm happy that Professor Robert Laughlin from Stanford University, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, was inaugurated as the president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), but why do Koreans insist that all foreigners are blue-eyed? My eyes are green. Is it because blue and green are the same color in Korean? But what about brown-eyed foreigners? Didn't Van Morrison sing a song called "Brown-eyed Girl"?
I once saw a news report about a Mexican living in Korea. He, too, was refferred to a "blue-eyed foreigner" even though his eyes were anything but blue.
Re: “Welcome, Blue-Eyed President”
I'm happy that Professor Robert Laughlin from Stanford University, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, was inaugurated as the president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), but why do Koreans insist that all foreigners are blue-eyed? My eyes are green. Is it because blue and green are the same color in Korean? But what about brown-eyed foreigners? Didn't Van Morrison sing a song called "Brown-eyed Girl"?
I once saw a news report about a Mexican living in Korea. He, too, was refferred to a "blue-eyed foreigner" even though his eyes were anything but blue.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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