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[xCustomx]

I'm having quite the week...Wednesday I was lucky enough to sit down next to the guy who eventually started wacking off.

There was a woman running around the hallway in my officetel screaming over and over and over again at 5:30AM. Shortly thereafter a guy was screaming as well. I was tempted to go out and tell them to STFU but I was too lazy and was 1/2 asleep.

As I left for work, there were at least 15-20 police officers in the lobby outside of the management office. The floor was covered with water and dirt and the people who have been protesting against the mafia and rackateers for the last 2 weeks were huddled together, obviously in shock at what happened. Outside there were 4 busloads of police, along with several police cars.

If anyone knows what the hell is going on at Poonglim in Seohyun please let me know. Other than the flyer I received telling me about the rackateers controlling businesses in the building, I've been left out in the dark. I'm guessing these mafia guys came early this morning and attacked the protesters. The woman and man who were screaming were probably trying to tell everyone what was happening downstairs......

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Korea and the West are the same.

[Dev]

Police showing up at apartments to break up fights in Korea is a fairly common occurance.


Happened twice at my previous apartment.

[blaseblasphemener]

[xCustomx]

[ajgeddes]

That building has been constantly like that for at least the past 3 years. The guy that owns that building is the biggest crook this side of the 38th. I have never heard of an apartment building having so many protests and problems with mafia as that one.

[spliff]

Where were you when "some guy" started whacking off?

[Milwaukiedave]

Wow X...you really have had an interesting week. How do you get so lucky?

[mrsquirrel]

[gsxr750r]

Any idea which businesses are mafia ones?

[jmbran11]

Ha! Ha! I heard those guys too. Most of my colleagues and I live in that building, so we've been trying to figure out what's going on. Clearly, it was some kind of protest or demand for action to evict the "gangsters" running the building. My friends said the man (and screaming woman) were telling everyone to come outside in support to fight the gangsters. I assume the police were just there to break up the crowd.

From the literature we received and the stories going around, it seems like there is some sort of turf war going on regarding the management. While this is something I would have expected the court system to work out, apparently there is actually a battle for who will phyically occupy the office and you get the feeling that a bunch of thugs with baseball bats could take over at any time.

Unfortunately, I don't really have any good info for you. But, like the rest of us, just don't worry about it. We don't own the apartments, and I don't really see how we can influence the politics involved, so just keep your head down and don't ask why the escalator never works. If only they would drop our maintenance fee down, particularly since there seems to be relatively little maintenance going on.

[gsxr750r]

Eeeek.... we thought about moving into that place, but the few places we saw were trashed... absolutely trashed for a place so new. And the rooms were kind of odd-shaped, given the pyong-size we were considering.

A friend of mine used to sell memberships to the health club there, and knowing her, she probably got her job through the mob.

[JongnoGuru]

[gsxr750r]

Because it's a huge building in Bundang, full of teacher-type offictell homes. Lots of military foreigers live there too. One of the first things you see (and oval shaped, making it a bit different) as you enter the Seohyun area of Bundang from the Pangyo 1 Highway exit.

Bennigans is also there, btw!

Worknplay's offices are there.

[ajgeddes]

If I heard correctly, that building has 2,000 units. It is huge. If it was in Seoul, we probably wouldn't know it, but it is Bundang.