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Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

Heard a woman screaming and woke up at 5AM. Looked out my window as a car drove by and parked up the rode. Watched with curiosity and then it drove away.

Later my mind was being filled with thoughts that I should have done something. Unfortuntely, my phone card expired and I am not sure what I would have said? I don't even know my address as I mailed it sent to the shcool. I live in a villa. I recall that car honked as well. I watched it until it pulled away. I certainly hope it wasn't a rape, but what girl is going to be out at 5AM?

All I could have done was either to wake up my manager and try to explain in Korean and body language what I had heard, or ran out to the car. I don't think either would have worked. It may just have been a drunk girl mad at her boyfriend.

okokok · Joined: 27 Aug 2006

I wouldn't worry about it. I lived in Incheon a few years back, and one night at about 5 am-ish there was a terrible shrieking in the alley. Some girl was walking around down there screaming like a banshee for literally 30 minutes. Wouldn't shut up. A bunch of Koreans were out in the alley checking things out, but nobody was doing anything. Finally I yelled 'shut up!!!!' about 20 minutes in and slammed my window. A couple of ajummas just looked up at my window for a split second and then went about standing around and listening to the screaming.

These people ain't all there. And to think there aren't many drugs in this country. What's the excuse then?

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

10 hours of pineapple soju?

I don't think it pays to get involved unless you see something happening.

Even then depending on the circumstances I might only yell out "FIRE!!!" to bring out other people.

dalpengi · Joined: 08 Dec 2006

Had something similar happen to me as well.

I heard one woman screaming around 5 am as well (on a Saturday morning). I was watching a EURO 2004 football match at that time and thought she was just having a go at her drunken husband or something similar to that.

I didn�t really pay that much attention to it being somewhat distracted by the football � but after about 10 min I decided to stick my head out the window and have a more of a listen. It was only then that I realized how chilling her voice was and to my surprise my radars also picked up on a guy�s voice which somehow didn't reach me inside the house despite the fact that he was yelling and was clearly angry.

Then I noticed a third voice � another guy who sounded in pain. I continued to listen and after about 5 min decided to wake up my girlfriend so that she could call the police and explain what was going on. She was very sleepy and unimpressed with me but I thought it would all be forgiven once she heard the bone-chilling sounds.

No, not really. She wanted to get back to bed. I begged her to call the police but she claimed that some of the neighbours have probably done that already. Fair enough I thought and let her go back to sleep and continued to follow the drama hoping that it would end quickly.

I think it went on for another 40 or 50 minutes and by stage lots of people were up, walking by the building, completely unconcerned by the noise.

Have no idea what happened there. I was three years in Korea and although I have heard people yell and scream many times (you see that everywhere of course) nothing came close to that episode.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

But was she screaming in agony or ecstasy? That is a legitimate question in a country where many of us live 6' away from our neighbors' big window.

Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

she was in a car that was passing by my window. It was not a scream of agony or ecstasy; oit was a scream of fear. I live by a rode where people park and get into the others black windowed cars and where policemen come to sleep in theirs. It is a secluded street. The car drove by, there was a shrilling scream and honking of the horn. The car then parked. After 5 minutes it drove away. I think the woman was drunk and perhaps being accosted?

NAVFC · Joined: 10 May 2006

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I was asking in all innocence.

I once lived in a place where the people in the next building were all uni students. Monday to Friday the naughty boys and girls lived together, but on the weekends one or more of the couple had to go home out of respect for the relatives, so Monday mornings when they returned from their family obligations were spent in bed with their beloved. It was hair-raising once spring came. The windows were open and at first I thought half of Daejon was being murdered in the apts across from me. Thank the lord for my friend Bom-Taek. He explained that the couples were just making up for lost time (and that Korean girls at that time had learned from porno that women HAVE to moan, groan and otherwise make noise.) I was relieved. And from the sound of it, both partners of the various couples on the first, second and third floors were also relieved.

PGF · Joined: 27 Nov 2006

Every once in awhile, this older guy upstairs (Stan) gets drunk and gets into an argument with his wife. This never used to happen, but since his wife's sister, Blanche DuBois, moved in, there's been more tension than usual.

The other night, she must've kicked him out or something.

He was downstairs wailing, "STELLA (her name)" for at least five minutes.

She finally took him back and it sounded like they made up quite nicely that night.

I think her sister Blanche DuBois went a little nutso and was commited after her boyfriend found out she was wayyyyyy old.

Anyway......

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

Rape is extremely prevalent in korea......most cases are not reported and most of the ones that are reported to the police...get tossed aside..."it's the woman's fault." Cops think...."well woman....if you're dumb enough to go out drinking soju all night long with a bunch of guys......whose hormones are are the rise....you deserve what happens...you brought it on yourself."

So....after a night of drinking.....man starts acting dumber, becomes more of a bonehead and thinks.....no means yes. Hence the screaming.

Anyone who has spent a fair amount of time in korea.....has seen and knows this.

stumptown · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject:

Doogie · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Location: Hwaseong City

What girl is going to be out at 5am? Try "working" girls. I live in an area where there are numerous sex establishments. On the days that I go into school very early, I see young, attractive girls all over the place very early in the morning. And they're all dressed like tramps. I know I'm making a bit of an assumption that they're sex workers, but I think it's a pretty good one. They're probably finishing their shift. I think it's a possibility that the girl you heard was a prostitute who was being raped. Any girl that dresses like these girls do and walks home alone in the wee hours of the morning is taking a big risk. Especially in this society where rape is almost an epidemic.

mateomiguel · Joined: 16 May 2005

stumptown · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject:

I heard some screaming my first night in my new town and dismissed it, but it was so close that I could hear the guy smacking some girl and her letting out a welp of pain each time. I don't care if they beat the crap out of each other in their home, but at 2 am when I'm trying to sleep is a different story. Needless to say, I went downstairs, yelled at them, then called the cops. The cops came and the drunk started messing with them and for his efforts, he got body slammed and taken to jail.