SeoulShakin
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: Halloween lost child rescue - cops questions |
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Last night after leaving Itaewon, I arrived home with my roommate and boyfriend to find a young boy (maybe 4 years old at the most) walking alone and looking very disoriented. It was 130am, and I was a little concerned. In my limited Korean, I asked him where his Mom and Dad were, and he said he didn't know. I asked him where his house was, and he also didn't know. He seemed a little out of it, so my boyfriend went around the corner to a little hof and got a Korean man to come and help us.
He asked the boy the same questions, and the boy still said he didn't know. He knew his name, and claimed to know his phone number. The man called the number, but it wasn't correct. So we called the police. (Meanwhile my roommate and I ran inside and got the kid a blanket and a glass of orange juice haha).
When the police arrived, they took down his name and his phone number (the one he thought he knew) and were trying to figure out where he lived. Then they started asking me questions.... where did you find him, what's your name, what's your phone number, etc. Luckily I understood about 90% of their questions, because they asked them in a very basic form of Korean.
Finally these two women walked by who said they thought they knew where the boy lived (at this point the boy was much more alert, and had become visibly upset and wanted to go home). The women showed the cops where to go, and we followed. It turns out he just lived about two or three buildings over. The cops banged on the door and the parents were in shock. Apparently they had put their child to bed, and then gone to sleep themselves. Once the parents were asleep, the boy took off. I kind of think he might have been sleepwalking. He was in such a daze at first, and completely out of it, and it took a while for him to become really alert to what was happening.
So all turned out well. The cop then started asking me more questions, besides the name and phone number. He wanted to know where I lived, what our jobs were, what our relationships were (my roommate and my boyfriend), was I a teacher or a student, what school did I teach at. I answered all the questions very politely, and then he thanked me for helping, as did the other officer. I bowed and thanked them and left. I'm just curious if those other questions were necessary, or was he likely just making conversation? It's the first time I've even remotely been able to follow a brief conversation in Korean, and I've never dealt with police here before so I'm not sure. |
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