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billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

Yep, it's yet another woman-getting-hit story.

So, about 5 minutes ago I needed some toilet paper and I'm walking out of my apartment and just as I come out the door I hear a *smack*! I rush out and I see right beside the front door of my apartment building this woman go reeling and this angry looking adjosshi grabbing at her. So I get between them and say in korean, "what's going on here?" and he tells me 가! 가! (go! go!) and I say, "calm down! don't hit women!" and he tells me something to the effect of "I don't usually do this. I'm sorry but just get out of here."

So I look at him and I look at her.

She's hugging the wall of the building and sobbing and looking very pathetic.

I look at him, and he's kinda rugged for an adjosshi, but still only 5'8". I can take this guy. Or at least I'd be embarrassed if I couldn't

I look back at her. There's something theatrical about the way she's sobbing. She should be running away. But she's not going anywhere.

So I turn to him and say, "I'll be back" because I couldn't think of anything else to say or do. I go buy my TP, thinking about what to do when I walk back by there. Take the guy on? But for what? They probably fight like this every weekend. Once the smacking is happening in public, it's almost certainly not the first time. Probably some sick co-dependent relationship. They probably both got smacked as kids and now they've grown up and found each other and they're smacking away. They'll probably get married and have some kids and smack them around too.

I leave the store and walk towards home. I come around the corner, and what do I see?

He's leaning against the wall with his hands at his sides, and she's hugging him as tight as she can. He looks off to the side nonchalantly. She seems to be beseeching him for his sweet, sweet adjosshi love. It's almost like she just did something bad to him.

Some people you just can't help.

PimpofKorea · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:39 am Post subject:

Hell...if some guy wants to put his girlfriend's head through the wall...what do I care......thats the price you pay for the love of yellow dingdong.....when she's ready to upgrade....she can give me a ring.

babtangee · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:41 am Post subject:

Hahahaha. Ahhh... battered women are like that the world over. It's not Korea-specific (though some of them are pretty brazen about taking it outdoors).

arjuna · Joined: 31 Mar 2007

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

Maserial · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Location: The Web

RJjr · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Location: Turning on a Lamp

The main thing is to not report it to the police.

A Korean man was assaulting a black man. When a white lady saw it, she reported it to the police. The black man and white lady both went to jail. Apparently, it's a crime to report crimes.

When I once reported an assault to the Cheonho Red Light District Police Department, they put me in the back of their Red Light District Pimpmobile and drove me to the Gangdong prison, where we just sat there for ten minutes. They had two chances to arrest, or at the very least question, the Korean assailant but didn't do anything.

Whatever you do, don't report crimes to the police unless you want to be harrassed and possibly put in prison.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:34 am Post subject:

PimpofKorea · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:46 am Post subject:

babtangee · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

In Canada I saw a domestic despute go public a grand total of once in my 28 years of living there. A rather small woman was violently trying to attack a huge guy and if they both went at it she could have been seriously hurt. So I called the cops. They arrived after things had died down. They arrested the guy and it ended with the woman being dragged off the police car as she begged them not to take him away. The guy had thrown her four feet back against a wall rather roughly one of the times she had lunged at him but otherwise she had instigated all the violence.

Somewhere between that and Korea there must be a happy medium.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

My sister has an interesting story about getting involved in some sort of dispute like that in Canada.

She was driving with her friend down one of the main arteries in the university area (109th Street and about 80th Ave for those of you who know Edmonton) when a girl ran out onto the road. The girl had clearly been assaulted, so my sister stopped so they could let the girl in. The girl was Native and said she'd been attacked.

Before they got away, the guy charged out and jumped into the minivan. My sister's friend kicked him a few times, and my sister grabbed the keys and got out. The guy said "Bye" (in kind of a Snake from the Simpsons way) and jumped into the front seat, planning to drive away. Of course he couldn't without the keys.

My sister flagged down an ambulance and the paramedics secured the guy. The victim ended up not pressing charges, but she told my sister's friend "I never saw a white girl kick so much ass."

PimpofKorea · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Actually if I remember correctly it was more mine than hers.