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matthews_world
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 Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 5:48 am Post subject: Seoul Student Gang Exposed |
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Seoul schools spawn student gang
April 28, 2005 �� With the seemingly benign name "Seoul Association," 307 students from the city's middle schools and high schools have formed a gang that police say has assaulted fellow students and extorted money from non-members of the group.
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced yesterday a female member of Seoul's largest-ever student gang voluntarily turned herself in. Her account of her connection to the gang led 183 other members, 92 of them females, to come forward and acknowledge their membership in the violent group.
Police officials said they plan to tell remaining members to break up the group on their own, adding that those who turn themselves in will not be charged.
The gang was reportedly founded in January 2003, and has 29 affiliates with 307 students from 94 different middle and high schools across Seoul. According to the authorities, the gang leaders are members of the 11 leading affiliates who first joined when they were in middle school, and stayed on through their high school years.
The founding members forced honor students and top athletes from their respective schools to join. Police said the initiation included physical attacks on newcomers.
From January 2003 to last February, police officials said the Seoul Association members hosted seven shows featuring sexually charged dance competitions and auctions of one-night dating partners at up to 30,000 won ($30) per person.
The gang coerced non-member students to buy tickets for the show, which cost between 3,000 won and 8,000 won. According to police reports, the shows generated nearly 3.5 million won in revenues and the senior members split the money after paying for the rent of the venues.
Police levied yesterday a 5-million-won fine on the owner of a Seoul nightclub that provided the venue for one of the shows. |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200504/27/200504272149023809900090409041.html
Any TV news services covering this? Seems like big news.
Gangs like these are ripe for all Korean youth, regardless of economic class. |
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Cthulhu
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 6:07 am Post subject: |
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From January 2003 to last February, police officials said the Seoul Association members hosted seven shows featuring sexually charged dance competitions and auctions of one-night dating partners at up to 30,000 won ($30) per person.
The gang coerced non-member students to buy tickets for the show, which cost between 3,000 won and 8,000 won. According to police reports, the shows generated nearly 3.5 million won in revenues and the senior members split the money after paying for the rent of the venues.
Police levied yesterday a 5-million-won fine on the owner of a Seoul nightclub that provided the venue for one of the shows. |
For a youth gang they are a pretty entreprenurial group of brats. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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From January 2003 to last February, police officials said the Seoul Association members hosted seven shows featuring sexually charged dance competitions and auctions of one-night dating partners at up to 30,000 won ($30) per person.
The gang coerced non-member students to buy tickets for the show, which cost between 3,000 won and 8,000 won. According to police reports, the shows generated nearly 3.5 million won in revenues and the senior members split the money after paying for the rent of the venues.
Police levied yesterday a 5-million-won fine on the owner of a Seoul nightclub that provided the venue for one of the shows. |
For a youth gang they are a pretty entreprenurial group of brats. |
Is this not how the mafia operates ??? They groom the younger generation to fill their shoes when they're gone. Extortion & racketeering is an intricate business.
Honestly, one would expect there to be some people deeper within the Korean underworld here working quietly behind the scenes, pulling the strings as it were. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| So? I used to throw parties and beat up people at school, too. Big deal. |
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Daechidong Waygookin
Joined: 22 Nov 2004
Location: No Longer on Dave's. Ive quit.
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
| So? I used to throw parties and beat up people at school, too. Big deal. |
Watch your back dude. Dont you think its possible someone is still royally pissed off about what you did to them in school? Pissed off victims of bullies have a chip on theor shoulder, and some work damn hard to better themselves in preparation for the day when they will meet their bully. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| Nah, they're all dead. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| Daechidong Waygookin wrote: |
| Watch your back dude. Dont you think its possible someone is still royally pissed off about what you did to them in school? Pissed off victims of bullies have a chip on theor shoulder, and some work damn hard to better themselves in preparation for the day when they will meet their bully. |
That's straight out of Tokki's book of fragile ego compensation 101. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Why is this news? I have met lots of gang memebers. There are plenty of young gang members all over Korea. |
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| Nothing new.....they have been around for many years (in one form or another) |
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Daechidong Waygookin
Joined: 22 Nov 2004
Location: No Longer on Dave's. Ive quit.
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| Daechidong Waygookin wrote: |
| Watch your back dude. Dont you think its possible someone is still royally pissed off about what you did to them in school? Pissed off victims of bullies have a chip on theor shoulder, and some work damn hard to better themselves in preparation for the day when they will meet their bully. |
That's straight out of Tokki's book of fragile ego compensation 101. |
Whatever. Its out of real life too, geek. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| Someone tell me if this isn't the first time a gang like this has been infiltrated in Seoul. I've seen one or two instances of such activity in Seoul before. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:08 am Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| Daechidong Waygookin wrote: |
| Watch your back dude. Dont you think its possible someone is still royally pissed off about what you did to them in school? Pissed off victims of bullies have a chip on theor shoulder, and some work damn hard to better themselves in preparation for the day when they will meet their bully. |
That's straight out of Tokki's book of fragile ego compensation 101. |
Indeed it is!
Ah, but as long as that uphill bucket carrying strong man is holding down the fort in Korea, bulllies run rampant in Canada. The horror, the horror. |
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nolin nae
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| is it just me or do "gangs" in korea seem less than threatening? i imagine that "gang fights" in korea entail gang members from opposing gangs getting together and using a lot of foul language and feinting punches and kicks. |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 3:42 am Post subject: |
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is it just me or do "gangs" in korea seem less than threatening? i imagine that "gang fights" in korea entail gang members from opposing gangs getting together and using a lot of foul language and feinting punches and kicks.
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Firstly, I have seen 6 yr old students go hard core on another, and they weren't playing. Tae kwondo Black Belt students who are 6 can still hurt other students who aren't. I can contest that.
I believe it has more to do with the concept of individual choice, I understand that my country would arrest so called gang members if they did the reported actions. Maybe Korean gangs are less able to say, NO! I won't gang rape that virgin who is 13 yrs old than non korean students. Or maybe I am wrong, but I hope that western students were less willing to have such F%$$#^%ked up concepts. I hope so, please don't tell me I am wrong. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| nolin nae wrote: |
| is it just me or do "gangs" in korea seem less than threatening? i imagine that "gang fights" in korea entail gang members from opposing gangs getting together and using a lot of foul language and feinting punches and kicks. |
They're holding paid admission "sex parties" and gang-raping young girls. |
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