Korea Ender

The BBC reports the first person in Korea has been convicted of racism. I thought it was only a European thing of putting people in jail for what they say (in terms of racism, North Korea is obviously a leader for jailing other talk). The man jailed shouted "Arab! Arab!" at an Indian professor, apparently confusing him for someone from the middle east. Ironically the professor responded by saying "Why's that Chinaman shouting at me".