I think this is complete BS........... Employers should be allowed to hire anybody they want and need for their business. This is not about being "racist" but who wants to see an Indian working in a Korean Restaurant??? Who wants to see a Caucasian working in an Indian Restaurant??? Not only Restaurants - If it is a retail shop targeted at a certain race, you would want to have the same race work at the shop to make the customers feel more welcoming as their are people in Australia that struggle to speak English. Comments such as, if they cannot speak English they should leave the country, is far more racist than these acts of hiring certain race. What's the difference between advertising on their own community website for jobs, which Caucasians cannot view without knowing the language, and having them posted on the window of their shops? NOTHING... Discrimination / Racism occurs far more from the Caucasians but I don't see them being charged - think about all the poor Asians who was brought up in Australia, but because of their name, the resumes don't even get read properly (like myself). If regulatory bodies have time to investigate in these minor issues, they should invest more time into issues that actually matter.

Seems sensible to me. More jobs need to stipulate for English speakers only as well. Discrimination is the only way to get the best person for the job.

There are many jobs where the ability to speak a particular language are necessary/important. In this case, given that many of the shop's customers speak Korean, how can someone who can't speak Korean fluently do the job well. It's a customer service job and you therefore have to be able to communicate with customers in a language they prefer to speak. Sure, if an employer advertises that they want Korean or Chinese or Italian or Malaysian (or whatever) they are breaching the law. However, I doubt that the employer in this case mean fully understood that. A friend of mine who is originally from New Zealand speaks fluent Korean - she was an interpreter and tour guide for Korean tourists travelling in Australia for several years. I suspect that if she turned up for an interview, introduced herself in Korean and engaged the owner in a conversation in Korean she would get a fair hearing.

Talk about overreacting, stop picking on the shop. Why didn't you go in to the shop and explain to them that they should change the sign to say, Korean speaking people wanted rather than attacking them when they most likley had no idea they were doing anything wrong. 

Give it a break; next page.Talking about overreacting.

What if the reporter was offered the job, would she have taken the job or just wasted the shops time.

Asians prefer to employ their own. A local well-known fast food franchise was owned by an Aussie and employed a diverse mix of people that represented multicultural Sydney. It was then sold to an Indian, and after a few months every single worker is now conveniently of Indian heritage. Most businesses are smart enough not to advertise for one particular culture though, instead they can tell from one's CV where they're originally from, and only call them in for an interview. Welcome to multicultural Australia.

This is pretty common in Sydney. Next time they will just write a sign in Korean- problem solved.

I am disgusted with the Telegraph and their slant on this story as a 68 year old Australian of First Fleeters descent I actually find this story a bit off. This is the same as advertising for someone and requesting that they speak English,no different. Of course they would need someone who speaks the language (most of their customers are Korean) and at least they are being up front about it. We have too many people doing jobs involving customers who cannot speak our (English ) language and indeed it used to be a stipulation that you did learn English (my Chinese wife was given 500 hours at school) and it still should be like that today.

I'd be interested to see how many white Aussies - there, I said, noone else will here - would have wanted to work at that place anyway; interested to see if anyone of a caucasian background would have bothered to walk in and ask them for a job, had the journo not gone in as a sting.

The only real test of their true intention would have been to have a caucasion applicant who actually spoke Korean apply for the job. If they got turned down, then it IS discrimination.

Australians are being discriminated against every single day, we have no rights and the government is to blame. The government no longer protect there own people, It will be a lot worse in the next few years.

Where are all the grubby lefties now that were ranting  when the coffee shop would not give a job to a native from some where other than Australia ..O! O! Sorry I forgot  Discrimination is only designed  to work against Australians and mainly against Anglo Celtic ones at that.

This kinda stuff is happening all over Sydney....Go into 7 eleven and I bet there is an Indian behind the counter.The truth is white Australians are being discriminated against constantly in this country but nothing is said.Its done deliberately.

Maybe they can give a job to that fat boy that rules North Korea

Front page news, I think they are trying to promote DailyTelegraph staff are not Korean.

Are Koreans the only "race" who are able to converse in that language ?  I think not.  Therefore, how can the requirement to speak any language be "racist".  If they said "Koreans only" it would be another matter.  Typical beat up of a story based on the scourge or our era (aka political correctness)