Even when they *do* speak Korean, he adds in the tweet after.

This wholly unsurprising, and… I’ve been braced for it from the start. Institutionally, Korea cannot conceptualize non-Koreans as anything except problematic “foreigners” who “can’t speak Korean.” https://t.co/vi0XootL6T So far, S. Korea’s gov’t has racialized policies for testing, vaccine passports, and now quarantine. It *always* takes foreign institutional pushback to address it.

They love to insist it’s not racist, because their good intentions (for Koreans) means it can’t be racist.