I’m not the tiniest bit surprised at that story.
At the university I went to, we had a large number of Koreans; not the ones that were born here, but international students that grew up and went to high school in Seoul and other major cities, but attended my particular college in the US.
For the most part, they refused to have anything to do with not only whites, but any non-Koreans in general. They would rarely even talk to Chinese students, let alone socialize them. The Koreans their own clubs and would hang out with one another after class, always speaking in Korean, refusing to exchange even a word with anyone else. I was friends with one particular Korean girl who had actually gone to high school in Oregon and liked me. She told me that her Korean female friends found white guys like myself “scary”, and the guys simply despised us.
When that particular girl started dating a white friend of mine, her Korean friends became very angry over this, and began to shun her for “betraying” them.
Really though, the best example of how insanely racist and xenophobic Koreans are comes from the following story;
At one point, I was getting dinner and saw a group of five Korean guys sitting with that one Korean girl who had lived in Oregon. I had never met any of those five Korean guys before, but knew one of them from my chemistry lab class. I decided that it might be a good idea to sit down there and introduce myself to them. As soon as I sat down, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE GUYS, without uttering a word to one another, picked up their trays and left. (The girl was the only one who remained) They did this the moment I sat down. One of the fuckers even smirked.
I had never felt such anger during my four years in undergrad; I wanted to get up and beat the shit out of all of them.
Obviously, it’s nowhere near as awful or extreme as what that poor Kenyan woman went through, but yeah, I have personally experienced something similar from a group of Koreans.
Forget Chinese or Japanese; Koreans are easily the most racist group of peoples I have ever come across. But again, I should clarify that these were (mostly) Koreans who lived the first 18 years of their lives in South Korea; not Koreans who have lived in the US from an early age. The latter are (obviously) nowhere near this racist.