Korean Job Discussion Forums

[billybrobby]

Korea, for all it's crude barbarity (corn on pizzas? you might as well stick a bone through your nose!) is still much less violent than many of our home countries. For some reason, they feel content with merely pushing each other on the subway instead of gunning each other down in the street. But as these simple people learn to accept the wisdom and guidance of the beneficent West (of which we are the vanguard) it will surely soon realize how much more civilized it is to have the streets spattered with blood and not spittle.

If there were to be an increase in violence in Korea, who can make up the best fake reason for it?

My submission: Violent turf wars between rival yogurt lady factions

[jinju]

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what a thread

[billybrobby]

I'm just going to sit back and watch the thousands of replies pour in

[jinju]

[Milwaukiedave]

[seoulsucker]

I would love to see two Bongo truck fruit dudes square off on a busy street, only to hear one of them cut off the loop on his megaphone to say, "Just walk away. Give me the truck, the bananas, and the tangerines and I will spare your life. Just walk away. I will give you safe passage through this alley. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror. Just walk away."

[Yu_Bum_suk]

School violence in Korea has long been the fault of Japanese comic books.

From one of my (smarter) students:

[ajgeddes]

I think it will be the great hagwon wars of 2012. Kind of like in Demolition man where Taco Bell came out on top.

[SPINOZA]

[jinju]

[Mashimaro]

Crime in Korea certainly seems to be on the rise

Korea 5th in Female Murder Rate Among OECD Countries
http://www2.kwdi.re.kr/board/view.php?db=news&no=145

Korea has the 5th highest number of murdered females among 28 member states
of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).

According to a recent report by Joint OECD/Korea Regional Center on Health
Social Policy, 1.5 out of every 100,000 Korean females were murdered in 2005.

Korea follows the United States, Hungary, Finland and Luxemburg.

U.S. topped the list with the highest rate of 3.2 per 100,000 females,
followed by 1.8 in Hungary, 1.7 in Finland and 1.6 in Luxemburg.

The average female murder rate of OECD member countries stood at 1 for every
100,000 women.

The two safest countries for females on the other end of the list were
Greece and Ireland, where only 0.3 out of 100,000 females were murdered.

The comparison shows that Korean women are five times more likely to be
murdered than females in Greece or Ireland.

Japan, Italy and Spain were also among the safe places, with 0.4 females
murdered out of 100,000 women, and the United Kingdom followed with 0.5.

``There have been around 1,000 murder cases every year in Korea on average,
with the figure not changing much. Recently, however, there have been a
notable number of serial killings of women among murder cases,�� said Kwak
Dae-gyung, criminology professor at Dongguk University.

Korea�s average murder victimization rate for men was 1.7 per 100,000
males, which is lower than the OECD average at 2. The United States topped
the list with 11 per 100,000 men murdered.

Unlike other countries where women were far less likely to be murdered than
men, Korean women were as much exposed to danger as Korean men.

Kwak said oftentimes both perpetrators and victims are likely to be men in
capital crimes, pointing out that Korea is an unusual case since men and
women are almost equal in terms of the victimization ratio.

[cdninkorea]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Way back when, when I first arrived, I met a guy who said he and his friends used to set traps to catch sparrows. They'd take them home to eat. I learned this when I asked what kind of (baby) birds 'those' were strung up by the neck at the first cherry blossom festival I went to in Shintanjin.

The rate of violence has increased steadily as the number of sparrows has decreased because kids are eating them. At some point, the 'tipping point' will arrive and the whole entire country will explode in a bloodbath of frustrated kids hunting extinct sparrows.

(I am sympathetic to the rival yogurt lady gangs and the bongo truck guy theory. They just don't go deeply enough.) Violence is VISCERAL issue.

[mikowee]

An age war between the youth and the ajumma over seat ownership in the subway. All it takes is one brave Korean 'Rosa Parks' to set the wheels in motion.

[princess]

hahaha! The war between the princesses...Korean and foreign princesses, facing off with each other. Whoever dies with the cutest, trendiest stuff wins.