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[butterface]

So I'm walking home from the neighborhood bar after a bowl of DongdongJoo and this guy is walking down the street, yelling in Korean.
He's repeating the same thing over and over and over again, it sounds like "Nail Ba Yoooooooooooooo"...."Up sa Yooooooooo", but it wasn't that because that doesn't mean anything in Korean.
But he was doing this at 10:45 P.M. Walking down the streets and yelling at the top of his lungs in a residential area on a Wednesday night.
So I said to my girlfriend, "If that guy walks by my house, I'm going to kill him."
She thought about it for a while and said okay. I can kill people, but I have to ask for permission first.
Sure enough, the screaming gets louder and louder.
So I go outside and this guy is just Screaming at the top of his lungs, just a few feet away from my bedroom window.
Nail Ba Yoooooooooooooo"...."Up sa Yooooooooo" (or whatever)
So I yell at him in Korean and English:
"Why?!?"
Then I call him stupid in Korean and I point to my watch a few times. And I shove him. Really hard. Remember, my girlfriend said I could kill him.
And this guy is totally nice about it. He aplogizes in Korean and the noise stops.
"Did you kill him?" my girlfriend asks me when I get home.
"No," I said. "He was really nice."
At this point, I would be very interested to know two things:
1. Why do Koreans tolerate people walking the alleys screaming late at night.
2. And what was this guy screaming?

[nolin nae]

[lush72]

Was it �޹й� ���Ҷ�? If so the dude was just selling snacks! Happens all the time- dont bother getting pissed!

[butterface]

But if he was so easy to shut up, why don't people do a better job of keeping people quiet? I'm from LA and that guy wouldn't have made in around the block in my neighborhood without someone loosening his teeth.
And who buys snacks at 10:45 p.m.?

[lush72]

[princess]

I buy snacks late at night, especially when I am in Hongdae.

[Tiger Beer]

[steroidmaximus]

he was selling rice cakes; they go put at night starting from about 9:00, and sell off the day's stock. These days however, the rice cakes usuaaly aren't the end od day stock, but quite fresh and yummy.

[Josh_Nyc]

i thought nyc was the city that never sleeps. wrong. it's seoul.

[nolin nae]

not for nothing, but does "Up sa Yooooooooo" sound anything like chab ssal ddeok? and why would the guy be walking around without his the mook and ddeok and then stop trying to sell it after one person complained?

but yeah butterface, in regards to noise (and many other things), the rules are there are no rules. my first year in korea i lived on a corner that had a chicken restaurant and a mart at the ground level. the owners would close around midnight and drink and cause havoc right outside my bedroom window until 2 or 3 every morning in the summer. most times their wives, friends, and children (none over the age of 5) would join them and get the ruckus really stoking...and the vegetable truck would get started at about 7am. gotta love it!

[the wrangler]

butter, yeah, you guessed it: I'm gonna troll this one all over you.