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Lekker
Joined: 09 Feb 2008
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: Watch out for these clowns in Hongdae. |
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Last night a few of us were walking through hongdae.
Out of nowhere, a bunch of Korean guys saw us and yelled "Ohhhh!!" and they ran right by us.
From out of nowhere again, one of them on a bike rode right past us, almost into us, with a basket full of empty soju bottles on the front of the bike. He falls down deliberately and lays there on his side. He hit the ground REALLY hard on his shoulder, and he did it deliberately, right where we were walking.
One of my friends, and he might be reading this, took the initiative to walk over to the man and try and see if he was alright. Being that I am First Aid certified, I was just about to go up to the man on the ground as well when I saw the other Korean guy running up to us, filming us and smiling and laughing. It was a set up. These clowns are trying to create some type of scenario centered around foreigners to film their reactions, kind of like Jackass in America.
*beep* that. I told the guy to stop filming me, but he wouldn't stop. I yelled at him "don't do that," in Korean, and he continued to film me standing there. I was really tempted to smack his camera out of his hand and my temper was growing short. I told him one more time to stop filming me or I was going to take his expensive video camera and smash it. I was walking toward him by this time.
My other friend who speaks Korean quite well went up to the man and told him to put the camera away. Good thing he did, because he almost walked away with a broken camera. I was 3 seconds away from ripping the camera from his hand and throwing it at the brick wall next to me.
So watch out for these guys. They are young, maybe in their early 20s, and one of them wears glasses with a brim cap with the brim pushed up. They will probably be around Hongdae again tonight. If you see them, tell them to put the camera away. If they persist, grab their camera and smash it.
So funny. Trying their hardest to imitate something from America. Come on assholes, be a little more original next time, will you? |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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One thing you learn from years of living in Korea- Never get involved.....
The best way is to walk away....... |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
One thing you learn from years of living in Korea- Never get involved.....
The best way is to walk away....... |
I prefer to laugh and point. |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I prefer to laugh and point. |
Agreed, but from a good distance..... |
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milspecs
Joined: 19 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| way to overreact buddy |
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Lekker
Joined: 09 Feb 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
One thing you learn from years of living in Korea- Never get involved.....
The best way is to walk away....... |
And end up on television for the sheer purpose of amusing the Koreans? F that. |
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Eedoryeong
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry to hear about that, OP
On a related topic, this story just reminds me of the 99th reason (among hundreds of reasons) of why living in Seoul sucks a*s. |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Uhm.........
I meant, don't try to help....if someone fell and got hurt, leave it for the other guy to do something....especially a Korean.
Korean matters are better left to the Koreans......
You should have learned that by getting involved with Korean people on a personal level will get you in trouble- if not by your experience then at least by others.
If you broke the guys camera, yeah you would've stopped him from filming you, but then he most likely would've called the police, then if they got involved the both of you would have to go to the station where the other guy would've filed a report for you breaking his camera and you would have been left paying for a new one.....or if it broke out into a scuffle, then you might've had several other people get involved and then you would've been arrested for assault....
.....dude, walk away.........the alternatives are much worse.............. |
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Lekker
Joined: 09 Feb 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
Uhm.........
I meant, don't try to help....if someone fell and got hurt, leave it for the other guy to do something....especially a Korean.
Korean matters are better left to the Koreans......
You should have learned that by getting involved with Korean people on a personal level will get you in trouble- if not by your experience then at least by others.
If you broke the guys camera, yeah you would've stopped him from filming you, but then he most likely would've called the police, then if they got involved the both of you would have to go to the station where the other guy would've filed a report for you breaking his camera and you would have been left paying for a new one.....or if it broke out into a scuffle, then you might've had several other people get involved and then you would've been arrested for assault....
.....dude, walk away.........the alternatives are much worse.............. |
I understand, but how would you feel if you were on television and some commentator is rambling off in Korean about you, saying things that aren't true, making you look like something you aren't, for entertainment purposes? This has happened before here where foreigners were filmed, put on television as some kind of joke. They were made to look like idiots. This past winter, a news anchorman covered a story on drunk foreigners in Hongdae. He made them look like fools, as if they do nothing but get wasted and act like clowns.
Another guy who posted on here was in Osaka and some Koreans were there filming foreigners. They interviewed this guy and when the show aired in Korea, it said something like "This man is a faggot," or something like that. *beep* that. That's bullshit.
Honestly, I agree with you, walking away is the right thing to do, but I'm not going to let them get away with filming me and putting me on television. F that. Someone tells you to stop filming them, you stop. No questions asked.
This has happened before to me, where I would be running on the han river, and people would photograph me, or I would be waiting for the bus and people are photographing me with their hand phone camera. What the *beep* are they photographing? I'm nothing special and I would appreciate not having my picture on someone's phone, or being filmed and put on television. I'm not a circus animal, a jester, or whatever. You film me, I tell you to stop. If you don't stop, I'll tell you again. If you still don't stop, I'll tell you one more time. If you still don't stop fiming me, then I take your camera and throw it to the ground. Simple. Whatever the consequences, I'll deal with them when they come. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Why does anyone take Lekker's posts seriously? He comes up with at least two of these kind of posts a week. If you haven't noticed, it's a bit of a pattern for him. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Dude, chill the f#ck out.
The student TV show in my University town used to film and interview people walking home early in the morning after they had "stayed the night" at a "friends" place.
The people that ran or made a big deal got put on TV, the ones that were polite and boring either didn't make it or got given free stuff.
Just go along with the joke or ignore it, this sort of crap happens everywhere. I would love to show up on Korean TV, imagine the props you would get from your students. |
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idiotinkorea
Joined: 25 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Last night a few of us were walking through hongdae. |
you should not walk around at night. someone should reinstall the curfew. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Kentucker4??? By the way, where is the guy? |
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Pooty
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Location: Ela stin agalia mou
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
| Kentucker4??? By the way, where is the guy? |
Didn't you see his thread? Big hairy aliens took him back to Kentucky in their spaceship, his girlfriend stayed behind to marry her uncle. |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| .....his girlfriend stayed behind to marry her uncle. |
Very Jerry Springer-like......
I am going to walk away from this post thinking two things:
~ People think you are so darn handsome that they need you on their phones and many networks think of you as a supremodel or something......don't fight it, flaunt it!!
~ You are so damn paranoid that you think everyone is out to get you.......
Guys & gals, which one is correct? |
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