> Hi Dear Ones,
> I am sure the Union is cooking fine and getting ready!

> Just before the union is made, we can still use our power to change
> the law, by using our siblings who are states(wo)men.
> You will be amazed to see what a bunch of letters, or even one open
> letter, to a president or prime minister, does!

> Let's send our open letters, to the newspapers. I just wrote this
> letter, to my bro Kim Dae Jung.

> If a hundred of us send similar letters to the local newspapers as
> well as to the person's office, don't you think they will think twice
> before they make their nest move that would influence our lives?!
> I know, they will like us for our courage and love, and it is also in
> their interest (International Image) to be fair to foreigners!

> Everyone is a sibling of ours, and when we appeal to them as such, 9
> out of ten will become one!

> Be good to my bro, OK?!
> Love you all, my brothers and sisters!
> Alan

> Here is my letter to Kim.
> I am sure there are a lot of unexplainable points that I will
> discover when I read it again!!

> Dear President Kim Dae-Jung!

> With great love and kindness toward You and the People of the Koreas.
> I do see this world as home to great many nations who can live as
> siblings
> together, with great kindness, and in the spirit of equality, love,
> and happiness
> for all.

> I have lived in Korea, for quite a few years, and developed quite a
> love towards the kind
> and lively people of this part of the planet which I do consider as
> my home away from home.

> Dear President of Korea, I and many other friends who came from all
> over the world, became very happy and hopeful about the future, when
> in 1998 we heard Your decree for fair treatment of the foreign
> employees in Korea.
> Your words did make a difference in our spirit and in our
> understanding of the fast development of democratic culture in Korea.
> In that year we saw a fine image of the Koreans' love and their
> welcoming and respecting people of other nations including the
> foreign investors along with a greater more foreigners looking at
> Koreans with appreciation for their being a free, democratic, and
> loving people.

> Unfortunately, two years after your decree, a few persons who did not
> agree with the American policy in the region, started to stir up
> emotions against Western employees in Korea.
> Not seeing that most foreigners were not American soldiers, these
> persons introduced "legal" harassments on top of the
> illegal ones - on foreign workers, and justified it by using the law
> against many foreign teachers. Following the emotions of those days,
> the immigration officers started following foreign teachers, for
> days, to find out where they met their private students, so to arrest
> them on the spot!!

> Just as a brief reminder, when we look carefully we see that the
> native teachers in Korea are actually the supporters of the top
> income-producing people of Korea, when you see where their students
> end up.
> Most of the best Korean Statesmen, International Bankers, Businessmen
> and Business women, Investors, Borrowers, Stock Brokers, Business
> Owners, Pilots, Doctors, and about all VIPs of Korea have at some
> point NEEDED a private native language teacher, to teach them how to
> correspond with the rest of the world, in a foreign language! This
> also may be true in Your Highness's and in your family's -case!

> Thinking of the great students - it becomes clear that teachers' pays
> are infinitely less than what they help bring to Korea, in form of
> Industrial and Economic Agreements, International Sales of Korean
> products, Science, Development, Foreign Investment, and on top of all
> that, A Greater Image for Korea! Don't you agree?

> As you are the Representative of this kind nation, I ask your
> Highness to beseech the authorities to bring an end to the arrests,
> to stop the abuse and discrimination against foreigners - Western or
> not; and to actually enforce the points of Your Decree of 1998, and
> the 'Korean Labor Law' in the work places, by officers of the law
> paying unannounced visits to the workplaces, and checking if the
> employees do in fact have Contracts that follow the Korean Law and
> Your Decree of 1998; Checking if the employees are really being
> treated fairly, and with respect for their Human Rights; and checking
> if there is any sexual harassment, abuse, battery, missed payments,
> or any other unfair treatments in the workplace.
> I believe Your Decree of 1998 offerers great rules for treatment of
> the employee, as long as law officers are there to enforce these
> rules, and to punish those who hurt others!

> Dear President Kim Dae Jung, as you are a kind and fair human with
> great care for Human Rights of All People - Korean and foreigners,
> alike - I ask for your brotherly care, to bring a greater fairness
> and love between Koreans and foreigners, and to bring an end to: the
> arrests of the teachers, the illegal contracts, the employee abuse,
> battery, sexual abuse, and to any other attempt that would make
> foreign nations see Korea as anything less than a Place of Kind and
> Loving people!

> With great respect for you and this kind nation, I have hope, and
> trust that Your Love and Attention will bring us happiness, again!
> Alan S.
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Very nice Alan, and very informative to the newbies too.
(Please can we leave out," I beesech your highness stuff?" Please, Please, Please). We need to communicate in the language of the day, and as if we are talking to our own parents out of respect. Thanks for that one. .

I'm even thinking for the layout of a letter we could use bullet points for clarity-No pun intented.
I'm serious, we need to be consise, polite and work for unity. I have read that comic illustrated book about Korea, and how the Koreans are a "peninsula people", always being pushed around by lots of people poaching on their land, so they are a bit more used to fighting and stuff, more on the defense. A case of survival. Can we help make bridges and reach them with love and understanding???
Let's aim for a recriprocal symbiotic relationship.

Love Aldyth.