Korean Job Discussion Forums

Troll_Bait · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:56 pm Post subject: 164 Koreans Go Missing Every Day

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200902/200902090022.html

Css · Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Location: South of the river

Doesnt really surprise me its that high...With the pressure of society, the number of unhappy marriages, the insane corporate culture..I dont blame people for running off.

crosbystillsstash · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Yes it's shocking how many kids go missing here too. It's all kept quiet of course.

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

5th columnists or kidnapped by North Korea?

Bucheonguy · Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Location: Bucheon

This really begs the question, what the hell do the police do in this country.

They don't enforce traffic laws, they don't enforce noise laws, when an accident or incident occurs they just tell the people to work it out privately, they don't seem to respond to calls concerning domestic voilence... so just tack, finding missing people onto the list. Absolutely sparkling!

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Where's the link to that story about families dumping off senile grandparents on Jeju-do? It was in the papers a few years ago. Apparently Jeju is teaming with senile old people who were abandoned by families who didn't want to pay for their care.

Horangi Munshin · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan

There is a term for that dumping of grandparents. Something or other funeral.
They leave their old grandpa or grandma up a mountain somewhere to die. The black humour version says the roll their grandma/grandpa down the mountain.
I did a class on Euthanasia (requested by an adult student) and it was brought up in class.

Panda · Joined: 25 Oct 2008

Is North Korea included in the statistics? Shocked

That is so shocking~!

If it happened in China, I wouldnt be surprised, cuz the country as well as the population is so big. But Korea is such a tiny country. Where are all those missing people hiding?

I wonder the figure refers to all reported missing people ( so they could later be found somewhere) or merely people who disappeared from this peninsula.

crosbystillsstash · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

It could be that alot of them have run away from debt or somthing. It just seems so many people to up and dissapear. South Korea is not a dictatorship, so who's taking people?

Aliens?

stuey11 · Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Location: Seoul

inkoreaforgood · Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Location: Inchon

There is no help for the weak in this society. A person falls down here and they can't get up for all the people standing on them.

Cops are so ineffective, I wouldn't be surprised that there are so many people missing due to the laziness proudly exhibited by the police. If you knew the only people who'd come after you for commiting a crime were the Korean police, I'm sure you'd say"What the hey..." and do whatever you wanted.

sojusucks · Joined: 31 May 2008

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

It would be funny if half of those people were actually found or false alarms but the police forgot to close the case or write down paperwork.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

reported missing is one thing! but remaining missing on the police watch list is another..

out of those 164 missing people, maybe 150 of them are found! the next day or something...

how many actually end up murdered, chopped up and buried on some mountain? well one news report said. 1000 a year!

Troll_Bait · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:24 am Post subject:

I think a lot of these missing may be children of divorce. One parent kidnaps the child rather than risk losing custody. Korean parents love their children more than foreigners. You're not Korean, so you can't understand Korean culture.