There has been an uproar recently on the Internet after a Youtube clip of actress Lee Da Hae surfaced which showed her demonstrating how English was spoken in different countries.
The clip was from defunct KBS2TV variety show, “Sweet Night“, and it featured Lee Da Hae as one of the guests. Lee and her family had stayed in Sydney, Australia for five years, where she graduated fromBurwood Girls High School, and thus she has a good command of English.
It was fine when Lee Da Hae was asked to demonstrate speaking English with American and British accents, but when asked to demonstrate how it would be like with a Filipino accent (according to the show’s graphics), Lee spoke in a way which sounded rather insulting, and it angered many Filipinos who got wind of the video.
According to her, she is only making fun without any intentions to put the Filipinos down and that she refers to the accent in Asia, not just the Filipino accent. But on my keen observation with Koreans who are living in the Philippines even discriminate and act dominantly over the Filipino people. That shouldn't be the case because they are just only strangers in the Philippines(they should behave as aliens) and regarding with the ''accent'' issue, it's undoubtedly and absolutely that Filipinos are way much better in speaking English, unlike the Koreans which is so hard to teach and sounds like chipmunks when they speak English because of their accent.
