Chinese tourists are one of the main forces in South Korea's tourism industry, and Chinese people are famous for traveling, which has made an unignorable contribution to South Korea's tourism industry and economic development. However, Koreans are not so friendly to Chinese tourists. They often attack Chinese tourists, claiming that Chinese tourists are of low quality, and even boycott Chinese tourists from traveling to South Korea. But in fact, when it comes to quality and littering, Koreans really don’t have the qualifications to talk about Chinese people, because Koreans themselves are more serious in uncivilized behaviors such as littering themselves.
In a recent event, Koreans set a record of littering 50 tons of garbage in less than two hours. According to reports from multiple Korean media, South Korea recently held the "2022 Seoul World Fireworks Festival", located in Hanjiang Park, Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event has been repeatedly postponed, and it has been three years since it was held. Against the backdrop of being suppressed by the new crown epidemic, this fireworks show attracted millions of South Korean citizens.
It is understood that this fireworks show started at around 7:30 pm. Although it lasted only 100 minutes and less than two hours, the Koreans who participated in the event left 50 tons of garbage on the scene. There are rubbish such as masks, water bottles, packaging bags, etc. on the floor and chairs. To this end, more than 2,000 volunteers were forced to clean up until late at night. It should be noted that it is understood that before the event started, the volunteers had already handed out garbage bags to those who participated in the event, but it was useless. Most people did not put the garbage into the garbage bag at all, but preferred to discard it at will.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that Koreans have left a lot of garbage at the event site. During the last Fireworks Festival, the 2019 Fireworks Festival, 45 tons of garbage were left on the scene. From this point of view, the quality of some Koreans has not improved with the progress of modern civilization, but has become worse. This time there is more garbage left behind than three years ago.
Many Koreans do not like Chinese tourists. This is well-known. Even if Chinese tourists give them a lot of opportunities to make money, they still attack Chinese tourists in various ways. The most important one is to dislike "the quality of Chinese tourists" and make noises in public, littering and other uncivilized behaviors. Some Korean tourist attractions used pure Chinese slogans to remind them, "Don't throw garbage at will", some Korean restaurants posted notices "Don't Chinese people are allowed to enter" at the door, and many people even requested to boycott Chinese tourists and other insulting behaviors.
And some so-called Korean experts and industry insiders have also claimed that the South Korean tourism industry should be freed from its dependence on Chinese tourists. However, this is easy to say, but it is difficult to execute. The number of Chinese tourists is huge, and it is very feasible to fill this vacancy with tourists from other countries. It is difficult to find other tourists with a strong purchasing power as strong as Chinese tourists.
Objectively speaking, there are a small number of people with low quality and indeed uncivilized phenomena such as littering, but that is only a small number of people and cannot kill everyone with one stick. Most Chinese tourists travel in a civilized way, which is a fact. No matter where you are, uncivilized behavior should be stopped. We have no objection to this, but we should not beat most innocent people to death together. And speaking of it, many times it may be just Chinese tourists who are helping Koreans take the blame.
It is worth mentioning that the act of littering 50 tons of garbage in less than two hours made some Koreans feel embarrassed, thinking that this quality is not qualified to talk about Chinese tourists at all. Some Korean netizens said that many people take throwing garbage into the road and parks for granted, and it is because of these incompetent people that they do not want to go to these places. Another Korean netizens said the key point, "Is it so embarrassed to scold Chinese tourists?" When there were Chinese tourists in the past, this situation might have caused Chinese tourists to take the blame, but this time, Koreans can no longer find a reason to let Chinese tourists take the blame.
