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Drunk businessman delays flight, then heads to Japan
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xCustomx



Joined: 06 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:02 pm    Post subject: Drunk businessman delays flight, then heads to Japan Reply with quote

Read the full story here: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2883585

Long story short: Drunk at 8:30AM, cusses at flight attendant who asked him to put up his seat, kicked off the plane, denies any wrongdoing for 2.5 hours before his private car picks him up and he goes to Japan to play golf.

From the Korea Times: "After the incident, police said they would investigate Park, but he left for Japan suddenly, Wednesday, raising suspicions that he purposely went overseas to avoid questioning."

I like this comment: "No punishment for him since he can claim, "I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing." Standard Korean excuse which the courts accept."
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ceesgetdegrees



Joined: 12 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some people really have messed up attitiudes.
1-He's RICH
2-He's OLD
3-He's MALE
In KOREA that gives hime carte blanche. He practically has the key to the city/country. The sooner the MINIONS get this through their thick, financially challenged skulls, the better the world will be for all of us.
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Masta_Don



Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Drunk businessman delays flight, then heads to Japan Reply with quote

xCustomx wrote:

I like this comment: "No punishment for him since he can claim, "I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing." Standard Korean excuse which the courts accept."


The problem is, as soon as they accept personal responsibility while drunk, they won't have any reasoning as to why drugs are so bad.
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spliff



Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't see what the problem is he was hammered.
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200712/200712050022.html

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He proceeded to ignore a warning from the captain over the intercom that unless he stopped making trouble he would be removed from the plane, and found himself on the apron shortly after. But the disturbance meant the plane had to spend 30 minutes replenishing fuel to make up for the amount consumed taxiing to the runway and back to the apron, delaying the flight for more than an hour. It eventually took off Park-less at 09:47 a.m.

On disembarking, Park was guided by airport protocol staff to a VIP room in the office, where he rested for two hours before leaving by car around noon. He was apparently entitled to use the VIP room because he is a publicity ambassador for Gimhae International Airport.


Laughing
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Geez. More amazing the newspaper had the balls to print it.

And the Metropolitician guy gets arrested for reporting a drunk to the police. This is one backwards nation.
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Roch



Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
Geez. More amazing the newspaper had the balls to print it.

And the Metropolitician guy gets arrested for reporting a drunk to the police. This is one backwards nation.


Word!

Watch out!! Korean trolls will harass you from now on for speaking the truth.
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macaronique



Joined: 14 Nov 2007

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If it was a a foreigner all you know what would have broke loose!
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
Geez. More amazing the newspaper had the balls to print it.

And the Metropolitician guy gets arrested for reporting a drunk to the police. This is one backwards nation.


Naming him, yes indeed. I think that naming and shaming more individuals like this could put a big dent in this sort of behaviour.
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buymybook



Joined: 21 Feb 2005
Location: Telluride

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

macaronique wrote:
If it was a a foreigner all you know what would have broke loose!


Have you seen the high ranking military fella on the AFN commercial that put down the private or whatever for being drunk(I think he assaulted an old lady too) and then telling the court it was because he was drunk. I don't think he had much of a choice. I'm sure he had a Korean Attorney, that's what they do here(blame it on alchohol) so why would the high ranking official be putting his private down for doing something in court that the Romans/Koreans do.

AFN blows.
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GoldMember



Joined: 24 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So this dude is a publicity ambassador for the airport. Do you think he lost his job. No way. It's amazing how useless and incompetent you can be in Korea, and still clowns keep their jobs.
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whatever



Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think he did a hell of a job publicizing that airport. Very Happy I'd honestly never heard of it before...




edit: Well, just wikipedia'd that shit. Didn't realize it was Busan's airport. Very Happy Oh, well, there you go. Now I care!
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richardlang



Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: Gangnam

PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:16 am    Post subject: Re: Drunk businessman delays flight, then heads to Japan Reply with quote

xCustomx wrote:

I like this comment: "No punishment for him since he can claim, "I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing." Standard Korean excuse which the courts accept."


This comment is nowhere to be found on that page. Where'd you see comment?
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richardlang



Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: Gangnam

PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:17 am    Post subject: Re: Drunk businessman delays flight, then heads to Japan Reply with quote

xCustomx wrote:

I like this comment: "No punishment for him since he can claim, "I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing." Standard Korean excuse which the courts accept."


This comment is nowhere to be found on that page. Where'd you see comment?
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reactionary



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia

PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"identified as one of the major financial backers of Roh Moo-hyun�s presidential campaign in 2002"

Don't get all excited about how the media is really "sticking it to the man" or making some cultural changes. The media's never been shy of attacking Roh. I'd say they only named this guy to make a stab at the beloved leader.
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