South Korean School Thinks All Irish Are Drunks, Rejects Teaching Candidate For It

It’s not often you see generalizations as blatant as the one this South Korean school made. Usually people try to be a little more discrete when it comes to racial stereotypes, but that wasn’t the case when Katie Mulrennan, who is from Ireland, tried to apply at the school.

According to Mashable, Mulrennan responded to an anonymous Craigslist ad that was searching for an English teacher. Soon after, she received an email from the school’s representatives that read:

“Hey, Katie. I am sorry to inform you that my client does not hire Irish people due to the alcoholism nature of your kind. Best of luck in the future.”

So her experience in teaching in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Limerick, Oxford and South Korea wasn’t even considered because the school couldn’t take the risk of bringing in an Irish woman and letting the alcoholic nature of her heritage seep into their faculty and children.

Since the post was anonymous, there was no way of verifying that the ad was legit, but she ended up getting another teaching gig elsewhere in South Korea anyway.

She should celebrate with a drink, just to stick it to the school.

H/T Mashable