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mysterious700
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 Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject: English Lecturers Busted for Drug Use |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/10/113_54285.html
Come on! Don't you think you're giving us all a bed reputation in Korea? If you do drugs; fine! But do it back home; not here. Stop fuelling the fire and smarten up! If you are ignorant, then learn now that Korea has very serious penalties and a low tolerance policy when it comes to drugs. To the few of you who do it here, stop giving the rest of us here a bad name. I'm really tired of all the negative steriotypes. If you want to do drugs, go home! |
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English Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Even though they were most likely on E1 visas (not that this makes much difference) I bet this ends up being included in some article in the future on E2 visa holders and how we are all filthy, AIDs ridden, drug taking pederists! |
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Trinidad
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject: Re: English Lecturers Busted for Drug Use |
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| mysterious700 wrote: |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/10/113_54285.html
Come on! Don't you think you're giving us all a bed reputation in Korea? If you do drugs; fine! But do it back home; not here. Stop fuelling the fire and smarten up! If you are ignorant, then learn now that Korea has very serious penalties and a low tolerance policy when it comes to drugs. To the few of you who do it here, stop giving the rest of us here a bad name. I'm really tired of all the negative steriotypes. If you want to do drugs, go home! |
Who are you talking to? The people that got busted aren't reading it and
people who still smoke dope here couldn't give a rat's arse about what you
think.
Do you actually think that if mightey whities stopped blowing doobs, then
Koreans would put ESL instructors in the same cataegory as brain surgeons?
Once again, what do you need to teach ESL? A four-year degree and a
pulse? Or has that changed to 2-year degree? Or is it one-year and
a Filipino passport? |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| mysterious 700 wrote: |
| To the few of you who do it here, stop giving the rest of us here a bad name. |
Koreans are regularly arrested for dope as well, you know.
Not just foreigners.
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| I'm really tired of all the negative steriotypes. |
Aren't we all, but I don't see that they will ever stop so long as Koreans are as xenophobic as they are.
Even if every foreigner in the country was the model of public behaviour and none of us did so much as drink alcahol, the K-press would still demonise us. The problem is not really with us.
Korean Actress Under Fire for Backing Marijuana
Actress Kim Bu-seon's calls on national TV for marijuana use to be legalized are causing a public uproar.
In a pre-recorded interview on MBC's live morning show on Friday, the 46-year-old, who has advocated the legalization of the drug, said, ``Marijuana is not a narcotic; it is technically an Oriental herbal medicine which Koreans have used for 5,000 years.''
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/06/113_47253.html |
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the crusher
Joined: 06 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I sware since i landed here in Korea, not a single day without these daily dose of anti-foreign news. |
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detourne_me
Joined: 26 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I like how it said 13.3 grams was worth 3 million won. Wow! |
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Manuel_the_Bandito
Joined: 12 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: English Lecturers Busted for Drug Use |
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| mysterious700 wrote: |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/10/113_54285.html
Come on! Don't you think you're giving us all a bed reputation in Korea? If you do drugs; fine! But do it back home; not here. Stop fuelling the fire and smarten up! If you are ignorant, then learn now that Korea has very serious penalties and a low tolerance policy when it comes to drugs. To the few of you who do it here, stop giving the rest of us here a bad name. I'm really tired of all the negative steriotypes. If you want to do drugs, go home! |
Amen. I wish they'd start giving foreigners the same sentences they do Koreans. That might finally make a few stoners think for a minute. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| It must have been rather difficult for the Korea Times journalist to cover this story while continually drooling over the keyboard with excitement. I'll check back with their website in an hour or two to read their editorial, "The smoking gun we've been waiting for to kick them all out." |
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Joe666
Joined: 19 Nov 2008
Location: Jesus it's hot down here!
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| If you do drugs; fine! But do it back back home; not here. Stop fuelling the fire and smarten up! |
If you want to do drugs; fine! Just be smart enough not to get caught. It's really not that difficult! Smarten up! |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I like how it said 13.3 grams was worth 3 million won. Wow! |
Hang on......... that's... ummm.... just crazy!!
I know that Korea has a high import tax. 20 British tea bags cost 15,000won in Hyundai.
But 3 million won for a half-ounce of hash??????  |
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pentheus
Joined: 15 Jan 2009
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: English Lecturers Busted for Drug Use |
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| mysterious700 wrote: |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/10/113_54285.html
Come on! Don't you think you're giving us all a bed reputation in Korea? If you do drugs; fine! But do it back home; not here. Stop fuelling the fire and smarten up! If you are ignorant, then learn now that Korea has very serious penalties and a low tolerance policy when it comes to drugs. To the few of you who do it here, stop giving the rest of us here a bad name. I'm really tired of all the negative steriotypes. If you want to do drugs, go home! |
How about you let them do whatever the hell they want and accept the consequences of their actions if they're caught.
Get off your high horse. |
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loyfriend
Joined: 03 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Hang on......... that's... ummm.... just crazy!!
I know that Korea has a high import tax. 20 British tea bags cost 15,000won in Hyundai.
But 3 million won for a half-ounce of hash?????? |
Actually, this is very cheap. If you are in the USA the state would putyou into a 12-36 month program like prop 36. Then they will charge you every ween 5-50 dollars. Make life working hell and put you in the system to check in with a PO.
That doesn't include court cost. |
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benji1422
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
Location: Los Angeles & Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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I've smoked pot in Korea and it wasn't fun.
It's like doing LSD in the ghetto. The environment and particular drug don't mix.
Stick to soju and whisky.
Pot and Korea just don't go well together. I think MDMA would be fun though but I'll never pay $50 for a roll. |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hang on......... that's... ummm.... just crazy!!
I know that Korea has a high import tax. 20 British tea bags cost 15,000won in Hyundai.
But 3 million won for a half-ounce of hash?????? |
Actually, this is very cheap. If you are in the USA the state would putyou into a 12-36 month program like prop 36. Then they will charge you every ween 5-50 dollars. Make life working hell and put you in the system to check in with a PO.
That doesn't include court cost. |
Nothing that you wrote makes any sense to me.
I commented on the quoted value of the drugs seized.
You commented on...............?? |
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freeridden
Joined: 27 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: stupid people |
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The OP is completely right, but I do not think that it would ever change the stereotype.
If idiots want to do drugs here, then so be it. Let them sit in jail. I think the Korean government should up the sentence for it. |
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