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[venus]

I just went to pay for my time at the pc room and realised I'd lost my wallet. In fact I remembered I'd left it in the bathrroom of a nearby hoff.

Went back there three hours after, panic stricken.

To my delightful relief, when I muttered 'Uh, um, money purse...?'

The Hoff owner reached behind the counter and handed it over. I hadn't even been a customer, had just popped in there to use the loo as pc room one was busy.

This is at least the tenth time this has happened to me (losing wallet and having it returned with money and c/cards complete.)

So a shout out to Korean peeps honesty in such matters.

Hurrah!!

[gmat]

Congrats -:

I agree that this is a redeeming quality of this country.

[PeteJB]

Must be about 3% in UK then with an added bonus of 40% cases where the phone was directly taken by force

[Julius]

[doggyji]

And of course, due to the nature, this thread will die faster than the speed of light.

Or have an in-depth Korean criminology discussion to compensate.

[Jun Lee]

Don't really understand why they would use cell phones.

Should have just used a wallet with like $80USD cash in it. (Enough money to tempt, but not so much money as to cause too much guilt.)

I'd try to find the owner of the wallet and give them everything that belongs to them, because I've misplaced my wallet on more than one occasion to find it handed back to me with everything in it..

Who knows what I would do if my past experiences had been different hehe.

[Cheonmunka]

Funny, I had some kids get into my car. One was caught in the car by a woman. He couldn't get out due to my crazy locks that are faulty unless one knows how to release them.
He was taken to the apartment office but I just said they got a packet of cigarettes so not concerned. I should have got an apology out of him though.

[jaganath69]

[uberscheisse]

i know this is an isolated incident - i've seen very little thievery in korea, though being a professional thief here would be easy as hell...

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=94978

[riley]

I can believe that the average person here is honest but, my wife's home was broken into before we were married, the building we are in has had a blatant break in. I've had my Ipod stolen and my bike stolen, so I don't think my property is all that safe here.

In the case of my stuff that was stolen, I put the blame on a 6th grader (Ipod) and probably a middleschooler (for the bike). That's the age where boundaries are tested, they stop being nice and honest, and you just can't trust the little bastards. Or, at least it was true in my case at that age!

[shaunew]

My mother in laws apt. was broken into 8 months ago. They took a $600 dollar camera, about 2 million in cash and dvd player. Where I live now is very safe. A gated apartment can only enter the apartment complex if you have a key and the security guards knows you. Then you need another key to get into your apartment building. Then the usual key for your apartment. My car is parked underground so I feel safe with it there.

[Paji eh Wong]

Question. If this is such a safe country, why are there mall cops everywhere?

[Vancouver]

[jajdude]

A`story I've told before:

I lost an envelope with over a million won (in "su pyos"). It was all my money. I was in a motel. I did not know I lost it. Ex-boss calls. She was called by bank. Bank was called by PC room. I went back to PC room, got it all back, some 12 hours later. On envelope in Korean it said "man in 40s": I was 36.

Have been ripped off by hagwons in the millions though.

[Zulu]

In tech/business, written contracts, intellectual property, Koreans are, very often, theives. In daily life however, the typical Korean will rarely take something which is not theirs. That's nice.