"...then they spoke in Korean..." & "Passenger unsatisfied, protests airline company's discriminatory treatment."
From NetEase, Tiexue, and Sohu:
Airplane delays departure to let “Korean passengers go first”
28 October, an airplane for Korea’s Asiana Airlines was delayed due to a mechanical problem while in Taiwan. After Taiwanese passengers suffered many hours of waiting, the plane finished repairs and was preparing to depart. But Asiana Airlines then notified Taiwanese passengers to let the Korean passengers go first, enraging the Taiwanese tour group who pointed out that this was discrimination against Chinese people.
- “Airplane mechanical problem. Suffer discrimination. Koreans go ahead. Suffer in silence.”
"Today our dignity has been insulted"
"...treat our organization as people..."
"Why do Koreans still treat us this way?"
"...It simply is not fair, in a place like Taiwan..." & "Same day arrival/departure, passenger complains: Not fair"
"...waited until now to leave, 8:30..."
"No need for discussion, us Koreans simply go first."
"...then they treated us as stupid when we did not say anything..." & "Asiana Airlines only spoke in Korean..."
Comments on NetEase:
“Bang zi” yet again.
Shameless…
They are big customers, nowadays whoever has money is the boss.
Korea, sooner or later you will be taken care of.
Foreigners look down on Chinese because foreigners have been spoiled by us Chinese!
It is the same within the country, foreigners get to go first. It seems it is still better to be a foreigner…
Our trains allow Japanese people to go first.
China’s trains temporarily stop a minute to let foreigners get off [referring to a story about a train making a special stop for foreigners], foreign planes give priority seating to their nationals, with such an obvious contrast, I no longer know who I should yell at.
Why bother going to visit Korea in the first place?
So when they get bullied, they say they are Chinese people, but when they are with Chinese people, they say they are Taiwanese, are they shameless???
Hurry and return [to China]. The [Communist] Party will protect you. Then you will no longer be bullied.
Forget this incident, even Shanghai’s Westin Hotel will have this same kind of problem. A lot of Chinese people are waiting in the taxi queue line, two British people come out from the hotel, and the doormen say to them that they can go first. At the time, I was very angry when I heard that. No matter where in the world, people should be equal. When Chinese people do not even treat other Chinese people well, what else can be done, so disappointing!
They can conveniently use this time to to go get a make-over/cosmetic surgery.
If this was in mainland China, it would not even be reported. Everyone would think it was very normal…
If this was in mainland China, I guarantee Taiwanese people get to board first and China’s ordinary common people board last!!!
So now you think of saying you are Chinese people, yet you do not mention it when clamoring for independence, serves you right.
Comments on China.com, “Hilarious, Taiwanese people in Taiwan discriminated against by Koreans!”
Other than mainland China, who else respects Taiwanese people?
Who can you blame? Everyone in the world has seen clearly, whoever treats Taiwanese people well are hated by the Taiwanese, so, with yourselves being like that, who can you blame?
Sit on the sofa!!! [This poster was actually the second reply, not first.] So WW also now knows what it means to be unable to voice one’s grievances!!! So little WW now knows to run to its mom crying. Oh well, what can we do, WW is our child after all. Do not be angry, come home first to let Mommy know, and Mommy will speak out for you!!!
What is so weird about that? If that was a China airplane, Koreans would still get to go first.
The weird thing is how come Koreans do not understand how to give precedence to others out of courtesy, their own plane first taking care of their own people. They stole Confucius for nothing! [This means they should know better if they really want to insist that Confucius is "their's."]
Feel stupid now?
Kao, Koreans are once again bullying us Chinese people. Old me is going to take a kitchen knife and chop you Koreans.
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The term 棒子 (Bang Zhi) or ’stick‘ to label Koreans originated from the time of the occupation of the Chinese North East (Manchuria) by the Japanese, where Koreans were hired and given sticks by the Japanese to bully and control the locals. Sort of like the evolution of the English term ‘faggot’ that also stem from the association of people to an object.
So did the Koreans arrive first then?
Sounds like somebody needs to call the waaahmbulance
The waaahmbulance can be reach on 9-1-waaaaaaaaah
On the train delay for convenience of Japanese tourists: the truth is that the train was delayed for about 45 minutes in the starting station so the chief officer went thru the train one cabinet by one cabinet to apologize while the train was on the way. Then the Japanese tourists complaint to the officer that they may not be able to catch up with their flight home. That’s the reason the train stopped in a station for one more minute in order to let Japanese tourists to make time to the airport. So basically the rail system made a mistake first (45 delay) and I think the one minute delay is reasonable.
Anyway, this Korea Airline incident is totally different. Taiwanese have bad attitude towards Korean, partially because they think Koreans betrayed them(for breaking diplomatic relations with Taiwan, even Taiwan supported S.K. in korean war), partially because they are competitors in semiconductor business, and partially because Korean baseball is a strong rival of Taiwan’s.
damn, dont u just hate those peole with boarding cards numbered 1-130? wots with discriminating against the guy with no136 boarding card? so anti ppl with boarding cards 130+. how dare they?
why dont they let black guys in my line up when im getting convicted? im 4ever the victim, disriminated against wherever i go………..
Its logical and often happens to assist the gate crew read passports in an easier manner.
Honestly, I cannot recall a single flight were boarding was arranged by nationality. I’ve been on flights where boarding was organized by:
- ticket class: first class first, then business, then economy, etc.;
- seating rows: rows x-x first, then x-x, then…;
- boarding pass priority: whoever checked in first was assigned a boarding pass that let you board earlier than those who checked in later;
- nothing at all: everyone in and take your seat.
Now, I’ve been on quite a few flights in my time and this does come as a surprise to me. I won’t say it doesn’t happen since others seem to verify it, but I personally have never witnessed priority boarding by nationality.
That said, if the explanation for giving Koreans priority was because they checked in earlier and Asiana’s boarding policy specifically gives priority to earlier check-in passengers, I would hope the Taiwanese weren’t so silly as to cause ruckus over that. I also want to believe there was an understandable but silly or inadvertently insensitive reason for why this happened. I have a hard time believing only Koreans checked in early or all and only Koreans have first-class tickets or something.
Am I missing something?
@ USTCer:
Somehow I don’t imagine the Taiwanese tourists being angry over this due to diplomatic relations or baseball rivalries. Semiconductor business? I don’t really think so either.
I don’t know the details of the train story but I can’t imagine it being a hard argument to make to say it is unfair that the train can be delayed for Japanese tourists when everyone else has been delayed too. At the same time, I applaud selfless courtesy extended to guests. Just saying…