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[JeJuJitsu]

Hiyo. Have you seen any excellent fights in Itaewon? If so, please describe them. Who was fighting? Who won? I don't care if you know why they were fighting, that's boring. Just the graphic descriptions, not the rationale. No one cares why it started. Just describe the beatings.

[Merlyn]

This one happened about 4 years ago. It was probably about 4:00 in the morning after a Saturday night. It took place at the intersection coming down from the gay bar street and corning the Loft. Four younger Korean guys came running down the street and into the intersection with a group of Koreans chasing them with the same sticks and boards you may have seen in the music videos here. Gangsters maybe. They caught up to the guys and started beating them right in the middle of the intersection. Can't recall the rest of the details.

[twg]

I was leaving gecko's the first time being there and right down the street, you know, where that railing overlooking the old buildings? Well anyway, there was this gang of dudes standing around. An international (and untrue) bunch, a few of the Nigerian guys, some Koreans, and a number of white dudes. Anyway, I heard the sounds of yelling and as I poked my head in, I saw some dude whupping on some chick. I'm 100% certain that all of us would have stepped in and stopped it given any other situation, but we stood there watching and taking notes because we were all united in the idea that watching some person we didn't know being hurt due to the stupidity that alcohol brings everyone was a wonderful thing that we could all use later to talk about on the internet so as to seem like we're really tough because we hang out on the mean streets of Itaewon like we were all Ice Cube and our lives were an N.W.A. song.

FUNNY!

[Cerebroden]

nope, they have guns in N.W.A songs.

[JeJuJitsu]

Saw a drunk guy, who must have pissed someone off earlier, have a guy walk up to him, and bust a beer pitcher over his head. The drunk who got hit was so drunk, after he got up off the floor, apologized to the pool table, and started picking up pieces of the pitcher and placing it in the trash. He was also apologizing for all his blood over everything. The guy who hit him with the pitcher calmly left. I think this was at Seoul Pub IIRC.

[swetepete]

#3--two big army guys fighting in front of Geckos, both in a proper stance and just throwing the odd kick or punch but being sober enough to block--looked like it would have gone somewhere, but the cops came and everybody split.
#2--heavily tattooed dude in a wife beater running down the hill, bleeding from the ears and nose and mouth and eyes, screaming 'where the adjectival hell did they go? Where did they go?' I told him I didn't know and he screamed at me and ran on.
#1--and the winner is! the dead guy lying in the gutter surrounded by his friends, waiting for the ambulance to come. He had been stabbed. That one was so NWA.
Seen more aftermath than fights, though, really.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Where was the dead guy?

[swetepete]

At the intersection at the bottom of hooker hill and the main drag.
I didn't take his pulse or anything, but he did look pretty dead and his friends told me he'd been stabbed. I didn't think at the time that he was dead or dying, but on the Monday morning it was reported in some newspaper or other that a fellow had been stabbed and died in Itaewon on the Saturday night. I didn't read the paper myself, but my buddy who'd I'd been in Itaewon with did.
That was about...three years ago, I guess.
Why, did you stab somebody in Itaweon?

[DRAMA OVERKILL]

Not Itaewon... But, a good one...

A good old-fashioned 5 on 4... Young Koreans... Drunken... Lots of body slams, kicks to the head, stomps to the head when the guy is down, fists flying, bricks thrown to the head... It was pretty wild... Huge crowd watching... Lasted 15 to 20 minutes... No cops... Eventually got split up by bystanders (someone, I suspect was going to get seriously f-ed up)... About 2 hours later saw 2 of the guys involved staggering down the street holding each other up - no bloody street brawl was going to ruin their night of drinking...

[lastat06513]

It was on September 8, 2001 and there was a huge brawl at the King Club that spilled into the streets. As more people were getting hit more people joined in. Blood, glass and beer flew everywhere.

I guess many of the offenders were GIs as the MPs came in vans with the KNPs to break it up and haul them back to base.

In the wake, about 11 tables were smashed beyond repair. The King Club was closed for 2 days as to clean everything up and replace the broken tables.

This fight was symbolic because the military was placed on restriction the following Tuesday,<you know why> and this was the end of the wild-wild-west fightnights in Itaewon.

I haven't heard of any real brawls since the one at Helios a few years later.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

[merkurix]

Two young Korean guys decided to fight right in front of King's Club. They were cussing and throwing wild swings until this idiotic white girl out of nowhere tries to play the heroine and gets in between them with her arms spread out and tells them in hysterical plain English, "Stop fighting!" She accidentally gets clocked and she is out, the guys continue their fistfight. Nacho business. Some people just don't cease to amuse me.

[PimpofKorea]

[Roch]

[theatrelily]

Outside of Polly's (on hooker hill), last summer.

Two Korean cops were trying to "subdue" a Korean gentleman because apparently he had run out of one of the nearby establishments without paying for services rendered (so to speak).