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Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707240023.html

amaazing, simply, amazing

just another day · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:14 am Post subject:

kewl~~

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

The phones weren't cool enough. They the same test with wallets full of money...I bet the results will be very different.

jlaskie · Joined: 19 May 2007 Location: Boston, MA

a couple years ago i lost my phone in the detroit airport on the way to london, where i was studying for a bit. when i realized it, i thought i just had to kick myself and move on.

but a couple weeks later, i got an email from london gatwick airport saying that someone had sent the phone there from detroit. not only did someone find it and turn it in...someone bothered to find out who it belonged to, someone bothered to find out my destination, someone bothered to send it all the way overseas, and someone bothered to track me down and get my email address to tell me. i thought that was pretty amazing.

sometimes, people aren't so bad. sometimes.

kermo · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:10 am Post subject:

I've lost my wallet three times in Korea. Never gotten it back, no matter what kind of ID was in it. Grrrr.

maximreality · Joined: 24 Jan 2007

The whole thing is greatly misleading. The only reason Korean tops the list and why European countries look so bad is that here in Korea you can't just start using a phone you found, where as in Europe you can just change a sim-card of the phone and start using it.

The difference is about the same as finding an ATM card without the pin-code compared to finding a wallet full of cash.

Sine qua non · Joined: 18 Feb 2007

kermo · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:29 am Post subject:

SeoulFinn · Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Location: 1h from Seoul

Maximreality is right. The test isn't good, because Korean phones don't have SIM cards in them. After the K-phone has it's service cut they're almost useless to thieves.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

I agree that this a scientifically worthless study. Leave it to Reader's Digest -- a magazine that is one step away from turning novels into pie charts -- to publish this crap.

Nonetheless, I'd bet a wallet full of money that a wallet full of money would last longer sitting on a subway bench in Seoul than it would in any comparable city in NA. And there's only one, New York City, so there you go.

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia