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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject: very strange question about Korean jail cells |
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Sorry, I know this is a weird request! 
I'm writing something and I need to know details about the inside of a Korean jail cell: Size, color, smell, etc.
I don't want to be thrown in one! However, I would like to go to the local cop shop and see if they would let me look around. Do you think if I bring along a translator I can accomplish this?
If any of you have experience with spending time in one, could you please PM me with details of your cell?
By the way, has anyone ever read Cullen Thomas' memoir Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons? I didn't but wonder if it's worth picking up. |
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SqueakyBuddha
Joined: 23 Jul 2007
Location: CheongJu
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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I bought it last year at "What the Book" in Iteawon.
It wasn't the best book I've ever read but it wasn't too bad.
If you're interested in Korean jails I'd say give it a read. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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I have a friend whose brother is in orean jail right now foor fighting (he's a canuck.)
Meals - Breaky - Kimchi Chiggae and small portion of rice
Lunch and dinner - small ammount of kimchi and rice, that's it.
He's sharing a cell with 6 other foriegners non of whom are English speakers, so he's pretty isolated. They all share a hole in the centre of the floor to use as a toilet.
Not too nice.... Not cushy UK standards but neither Thailand standards. Very spartan though...
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| That's a pretty terrible selection of prison food. |
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AgentM
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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I have to ask, why are you interested?  |
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mimis
Joined: 24 May 2009
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Can't help you with your first questions, but have you checked Amazon for the book?
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From Publishers Weekly
In May 1994, Thomas, a slacker vagabond teaching English, was arrested in Seoul, South Korea, for smuggling hashish into the country. He served three and a half years in various prisons and was released in 1997. In this strangely uneventful memoir, Thomas recounts his trials and tribulations in flat, unmodulated prose. Using an unnecessarily complicated flashback style at the beginning, Thomas presents himself as an innocent abroad�a symbol of the legions of disaffected middle-class youth wandering the globe aimlessly looking for, well, they don't really know. While teaching English to Korean children, Thomas falls in with an unsavory lot and heads to the Philippines for a drug deal. This goes awry, and he lands in prison, where he meets and befriends various other foreigners. One prison is like a U.N. of convicted losers. Most troubling is that while Thomas gives the reader plenty of detail and keeps the story moving forward well enough, he seems little affected by the experience. It is as though, as a relatively privileged American, Thomas is so stunned by being forced to serve his full term for his crime that he is unable or unwilling to be humbled by the experience. (Mar.) |
The Publishers Weekly review doesn't sound too great, but the customer reviews are raving. 12 out of 13 gave it 5 stars and 1 gave it 4. Now I'm getting curious too! 
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-One-Cell-American-Prisons/product-reviews/067003827X/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending#R22DJOEW5NHMFA |
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tomwaits
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Location: PC Bong
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| recently found a National Geographic box set dvd called Locked Up Abroad which features the Mccullen story among many other cases from different countries. Worth a look if the topic interests you. |
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hagwonnewbie
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Asia
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| you can see those on youtube. That McCullen guy seemed like such a tard. |
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