Daegu, South Koreahttp://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/31/world/la-fg-korea-english31-2010jan31
Their activities will include
- monitoring your internet activities to track personal data and home addresses
- following you home and staking out your apartment
- taking notes on your contacts and habits
- rummaging thru your trash
Reporting from Seoul — Sometimes, in his off hours, Yie Eun-woong does a bit of investigative work.
He uses the Internet and other means to track personal data and home addresses of foreign English teachers across South Korea.
Then he follows them, often for weeks at a time, staking out their apartments, taking notes on their contacts and habits.
He wants to know whether they're doing drugs or molesting children.
Yie, a slender 40-year-old who owns a temporary employment agency, says he is only attempting to weed out troublemakers who have no business teaching students in South Korea, or anywhere else.
The volunteer manager of a controversial group known as the Anti-English Spectrum, Yie investigates complaints by South Korean parents, often teaming up with authorities, and turns over information from his efforts for possible prosecution.
Outraged teachers groups call Yie an instigator and a stalker.
Yie waves off the criticism. "It's not stalking, it's following," he said. "There's no law against that."
On their website and through fliers, members have spread rumors of a foreign English teacher crime wave. They have alleged that some teachers are knowingly spreading AIDS, speculation that has been reported in the Korean press.
Teachers say they're the victims of stalkers and rumours
Here is the groups website which is all in korean
http://cafe.naver.com/englishspectrum
You have been warned! (this is not fake)
If you see this man
- buy him a coffee
- try to find him a girlfriend (he is in his 40s)
- introduce him to another hobby
- take him to one of the casinos or betting shops across korea
or better still, follow him home, stake out his apartment, monitor his contacts, and report to the expat community!......... "It's not stalking, it's following," he said. "There's no law against that."
Some expats have done just that and found the very spot where this photo was taken
http://asktheexpat.blogspot.com/2010/02/where-is-yie-eun-woong.html
They've also started a T-Shirt campaign in the Seoul neighbourhood of Gangnam where the photo was taken.
Besides being lampooned there are numerous other sightings being reported in expats blogs from back in 2010 when the story first broke.
Perhaps this group also needs to brush up on korean law since foreigners are required to take an annual Aids and Drug test to enter the country to work, and to renew their visa and stay in this country, undermining their claims that we are spreading Aids!!
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