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[JDSengir]

I don't know about where you guys live, but apparently there is some local election in few days and these electoral groupies are blasting campaign slogans , playing loud music, and is generally hogging as much attention as possible through residential areas. If it is at a rally or in a very public area I'll tolerate it to a degree, but damn why so close to residential areas?

I guess this is not illegal. But damn it, are Korean perfectly content about this? I keep hearing "we just have to tolerate it."

[jcan]

They woke me up this morning (a holiday!) at 8am and then proceeded to play the same old geezer-type song for 3 hrours (!) straight.

[VanIslander]

it's more free than back home (like the 1970s and before)

unregulated freedom means you indeed have to tolerate the behaviour of others which infringes on your own freedoms - it's a wash in terms of degree of liberty experienced. take advantage of it. have a hell raising party or crank your music on a saturday night and notice no one calls the cops

i love the relative lack of police enforcement and legal restrictions in Korea (cycling helmet free; drinking on beaches)

the noise and chaos of Korea is part of its charm, which one notices more by its absence when one goes back to one's sedate home town

[kiknkorea]

Well said VI!
I was taking a walk earlier today and was thinking the same thing as I was passing a group of choreographed campaigners dancing and waving signs in front of a truck playing music. I thought to myself, no way would this happen back home in the states, there would be some ordinance in place to quash it.

And then I looked around at other things that wouldn't pass back home like the inflatable phallic shaped signs in front of hofs and the flashing lighted signs. I felt happy to be in a place where things aren't over-legislated.

[Skippy]

Careful VanIslander you forgot the corollary law - Any such freedoms are not permitted if the said offender is NON Korean.

This goes back to the time I was regularly staying at my girlfriends place (Waygook) she lived in a villa apartment that had was shared by a bunch of teachers (all from the same school) Sort of a dorm kind of experience. Anyways every couple of weeks I would be awakened at 2:00am by the neighbors having an argument, never mind the vegetable trucks that where always around blaring their prices. Anyways going on the group of teachers who lived at the apartment building decide to go to the roof sort a deck area and have some beers listen to some music and chat. This was on a Saturday night. So what happens the police come at 10:00 pm and tell us to turn of the music and pack it up. I mean come on it is a Saturday not a weekday and it was early to boot. Where the heck where they when the neighbors beating each other was keeping us up.

Another example. BlessU pub in Itaewon (foreigner owned) has had to close windows and turn down music because some neighbor complained the noise was too much. BlessU pub is not a club with loud hiphop music. It is a laid back pub to listen to some rock and drink some beers. Still the neighbors had the cops by a couple of times to the pub. For the love of Frigging GOD this is Itaewon. If you want peace and quite I sure as heck would not live in Itaewon.

See how soon before the cops come the next time you have a party of friends over.

[canada42]

Indeed, being a foreigner you'll get called out on this a lot. A few weekends ago we had a birthday party in a friend's apartment. It was on a Saturday night, we put signs written in korean on the neighbor's doors that at 10:00pm we'd be leaving and heading to the bars but we might be a bit loud until then. At 10:05 as we're walking out the door the police show up to issue a chewing out to the apt. owner. The neighbor's called the cops on us for being 5 minutes late.

The next weekend Koreans in the apt next door threw an outrageous party from about 11pm to 5am on a Sunday - Monday. No cops showed up for that one and pounding on the door yelling at them to keep it down accomplished absolutely nothing.

Basically just be aware that you'll be discriminated against at every possible opportunity.

[8 years down]

Some of you may think this noise freedom crap is great, but it really boils down to respect for others.

Try having a 1 year old baby who finally falls asleep for her afternoon nap, when this campaign truck and dancing girls show up, park right in front of your apartment and blast their music and campaign cheers through your closed windows.

[AsiaESLbound]

2:30 to 5:00AM is prime time for the social misfits to go balling their heads off, screaming, arguing, doors slamming, small babies crying, furniture rearrangements, stomping, and men beating down their woman in the alley just below your window. It's ridiculous and shows a lack of civility and consideration for those who work all day needing their rest at night. I know I'm living in a cheap block next to young couples with small babies who fight over their women having relations with men during her late night work. They get in from 2:30 to 5:00AM to wake their man up and that's when all hell breaks loose more times than not. I feel like throwing rotten eggs at them for all the commotion.

[ChilgokBlackHole]

[curiousaboutkorea]

It can get irritating. I live near room salons and bars, though the area is lots of officetels. It's not a clubbing district. It's not on a main street either with lots of traffic. Nonetheless, at 2 am, all the drunks come out of the room salons and scream and yell and argue. It's especially bad in summer, which is when also likes to keep windows open when asleep.

[ChilgokBlackHole]

[curiousaboutkorea]

[Chambertin]

As stated just more proof that nothing will change about blatant disrespect for everyone but me. Well nothing will change till those goofy ajumas kick the bucket.

Just about everyone I talk to hates them and everything they stand for, but grandma and grandpa vote lots more than kid shillings and that�s life everywhere.

Captain K, (if you read this) can you do me a favor and cast one of your undecided votes for whomever is the quietest?

[kinerry]

If you are hurting others, than it is not ok.

Blasting music at 10am when lots of people work overnight shifts is just ModEdit and not ok in any book.


* A ModEdit is the same a PM warning. There is no need to use inappropriate language. You are an adult with a large vocabulary of many adjectives that do not violate the TOS, use it.

[Steelrails]