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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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 Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:21 am Post subject: Gangnam girl in her 20s kills neighbor's cat for no reason |
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That's the sad news today. A guy living in an apartment with two cats mistakenly left the door open and one of them got out, and then his neighbor, a girl in her 20s, came home and beat the cat then threw it off the 10th floor when she saw it in the hallway, which was then caught on camera. Her excuse: she was drunk and had had a fight with her boyfriend. The internet has gone nuts with calls to reform Korea's animal cruelty laws.
http://breaknews.com/sub_read.html?uid=137528§ion=sc2
(Warning: has picture of dead cat) |
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fl4mers
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| Do you have any idea why Koreans don't like cats? I know they keep dogs as pets and don't seem to mind those, but they really seem to have a bit of a thing against cats... |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| In the Korea Times story, it quotes the chick using the standard excuse. She was drunk. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| fl4mers wrote: |
| Do you have any idea why Koreans don't like cats? I know they keep dogs as pets and don't seem to mind those, but they really seem to have a bit of a thing against cats... |
Just a semi-semi-educated guess here, but might it have something to do with Korea having been an agrarian society in its more recent past? It seems to me that cats aren't as easily domesticated as dogs are, and could possibly be regarded as being pests by farmers. You can train a dog to hunt on your command, and eat when you want it to eat, but a cat is more likely to tear into anything that catches its fancy, including chickens and other small farm animals.
I've known a few people born in the early 20th Century(Canadians), and they basically seemed to regard cats as pests. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| fl4mers wrote: |
| Do you have any idea why Koreans don't like cats? I know they keep dogs as pets and don't seem to mind those, but they really seem to have a bit of a thing against cats... |
Have you no idea of what they do to the dogs they eat? (Hint: eating them is the most humane part of it!) |
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fl4mers
Joined: 26 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| fl4mers wrote: |
| Do you have any idea why Koreans don't like cats? I know they keep dogs as pets and don't seem to mind those, but they really seem to have a bit of a thing against cats... |
Have you no idea of what they do to the dogs they eat? (Hint: eating them is the most humane part of it!) |
Actually I do... but there are a lot of dogs in Korea that don't get eaten (most likely because those chihuahua sized whelps they keep as pets wouldn't warrant all the effort they put into "tenderizing" the flesh). I noticed cats don't seem to be kept much as pets though and that the cats I've seen on the street get kicked about all over the place, which is why I was asking. |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:06 am Post subject: |
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would of been nice to see a pic of the cat killer
one of my students wrote an essay about his childhood experience of killing a cat. When he read it to the class, his high school buddies thought it was hilarious. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
would of been nice to see a pic of the cat killer
one of my students wrote an essay about his childhood experience of killing a cat. When he read it to the class, his high school buddies thought it was hilarious. |
Those barbarians. I thought high schoolers were mature. |
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thomas pars
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This has come up a few times in my adult classes. According to them,
Koreans don't like cats because their eyes are not shaped like ours.
Dogs are okay because they have similar eyes, i.e round. But the triangular shape of cats' irises are evil. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| On the other hand wrote: |
| fl4mers wrote: |
| Do you have any idea why Koreans don't like cats? I know they keep dogs as pets and don't seem to mind those, but they really seem to have a bit of a thing against cats... |
Just a semi-semi-educated guess here, but might it have something to do with Korea having been an agrarian society in its more recent past? It seems to me that cats aren't as easily domesticated as dogs are, and could possibly be regarded as being pests by farmers. You can train a dog to hunt on your command, and eat when you want it to eat, but a cat is more likely to tear into anything that catches its fancy, including chickens and other small farm animals.
I've known a few people born in the early 20th Century(Canadians), and they basically seemed to regard cats as pests. |
Interesting. Possible reason, I was told that it goes back to some folktale that cats will dig up your grave when you're dead. But it's very possible that the folktale was made to reinforce that cats are pests on the farm. |
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rollo
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Strange, most farmers I know welcome cats because they kill rodents ! |
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discostu333
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| rollo wrote: |
| Strange, most farmers I know welcome cats because they kill rodents ! |
Korean farmers don't see that logic because, well, they are Korean. |
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pkang0202
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I think "Koreans don't like cats" is a misconception.
I have 2 cats myself, and just about every Korean I show the pictures to say they are very cute. In fact, I've met more Korean girls (aged 20-30) who have cats instead of dogs. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| On the other hand wrote: |
| fl4mers wrote: |
| Do you have any idea why Koreans don't like cats? I know they keep dogs as pets and don't seem to mind those, but they really seem to have a bit of a thing against cats... |
Just a semi-semi-educated guess here, but might it have something to do with Korea having been an agrarian society in its more recent past? It seems to me that cats aren't as easily domesticated as dogs are, and could possibly be regarded as being pests by farmers. You can train a dog to hunt on your command, and eat when you want it to eat, but a cat is more likely to tear into anything that catches its fancy, including chickens and other small farm animals.
I've known a few people born in the early 20th Century(Canadians), and they basically seemed to regard cats as pests. |
Farmers generally keep cats to hunt mice and keep dogs to hunt rats. |
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Troglodyte
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't get the video to open in the links. Is the video also on youtube? |
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