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supernick
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:36 am Post subject: I Just Don't Get It |
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I just had an unpleasant lunch with a Korean friend. She asked me if I had any difficulties living in Korea, and though I'm happy with my life, I did point out a few things that I have a problem with; one being that there are just too many excuses for everything. She then spent the next 30 minutes making excuses for some of the gripes I hold.
Why is it that people can do what these girls did without ant consequenses? I am sure that they are only sorry because they got caught. If they are too young to buy cigarettes, then why on Earth would being drunk be an excuse for their behavior?
I know this is Korea and things are just different, but when you and 4 of your buddies attack a clerk in a store, there has to be consequences. Sure, the clerk might be afraid of retalliation, but shouldn't the police have charged the girls?
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101224000589
Watch the video.
Girls attack convenience store clerk for not selling cigarettes
2010-12-24 14:37
A shocking video has surfaced showing five young girls violently attacking a convenience store clerk. The video clip has been spreading over the Internet and created an uproar among netizens.
The video shows five girls trying to buy cigarettes but once they were denied, one of the girls suddenly attacks the 24-year-old female clerk, including aggressively pulling her hair.
According to the police, the attack occurred on Monday night at a convenience store in Chuncheon.
The clerk refused to sell cigarettes to the girls because they looked under aged, saying the pictures on their identification cards did not look like they belonged to them.
According to police, the victim declined to file any formal charge against her attackers, saying they were apparently drunk and have apologized many times for the attack.
By Moon Ye-bin ([email protected])
Intern reporter
Edited by Robert York
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| Korea is becoming more like Canada every day. |
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InDaGu
Joined: 28 Jun 2010
Location: Cebu City, Philippines
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| To be fair, it looked to me like one girl attacked her and the other four intervened. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:40 am Post subject: |
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According to police, the victim declined to file any formal charge against her attackers, saying they were apparently drunk and have apologized many times for the attack.
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The convenient excuse! |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 1:44 am Post subject: |
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According to police, the victim declined to file any formal charge against her attackers, saying they were apparently drunk and have apologized many times for the attack.
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The convenient excuse! |
And I always thought it was only men that could get away with that. Korea is changing.
If the cashier were a man, he probably would have killed himself in embarrassment for being manhandled by some teenage girl. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| Honestly, I've never seen anyone get carded here for cigarettes. If you've got the money then they've got the honey. |
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SeoulFinn
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Location: 1h from Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| It does happen, since I saw it happen not so long time ago. One youngish Asian girl (probably from Taiwan or HK) wasn't able to provide an ID and had to leave the store without her cancer sticks. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| I don't smoke and I barely notice cigarette brands. If I do notice them, it is because of the packaging. I've noticed that there's a cigarette brand here called "glamour" and that the package is supposed to be very attractive. A culture that blurs out cigarettes on TV should probably do a little more regulating of advertising and packaging of the cancer sticks so that they aren't so appealing to teenagers. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| A culture that blurs out cigarettes on TV should probably do a little more regulating of advertising and packaging of the cancer sticks so that they aren't so appealing to teenagers. |
I got the feeling that smoking among high school and even middle school girls is more rampant than one would think. One day I came into the teachers' office at the all-girls middle school where I worked to find one of my students being disciplined. When I asked someone what she had done, they said she had been caught smoking, alone. Not with a group of girls, which I could understand because of peer pressure, but alone. And this was a quiet, petite girl who had never given me any trouble. I couldn't believe it. Was she having a "nicotine fit" or something? Anyway, the other teachers and even other students that age told me it was a big problem with girls that age. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| "Sorry, I was drunk" = get out of jail free card |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| Korea is becoming more like Canada every day. |
It's funny 'cause it's true. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Why didn't they just go somewhere else to get the cigarettes? Surely they have friends who work in convenience stores who sell to anyone. It happens everywhere, unfortunately. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Sector7G wrote: |
| Illysook wrote: |
| A culture that blurs out cigarettes on TV should probably do a little more regulating of advertising and packaging of the cancer sticks so that they aren't so appealing to teenagers. |
I got the feeling that smoking among high school and even middle school girls is more rampant than one would think. One day I came into the teachers' office at the all-girls middle school where I worked to find one of my students being disciplined. When I asked someone what she had done, they said she had been caught smoking, alone. Not with a group of girls, which I could understand because of peer pressure, but alone. And this was a quiet, petite girl who had never given me any trouble. I couldn't believe it. Was she having a "nicotine fit" or something? Anyway, the other teachers and even other students that age told me it was a big problem with girls that age. |
I wouldn't say it's rampant, but it's common for girls at that age to smoke. Very likely those teenage girls are emulating their crush/boyfriend's secret smoking. Many students smoke in bathrooms, or behind buildings. More women than you realize smoke, it's just that most do it in secret, out of sight of men. Older Asian men will assume a woman smoking in public is a prostitute.
Unless the women is older and secured in her job, it is highly she is going to whip out a cigarette and smoke it in front of a group of men that work at the same place. I've only seen it once, one female teacher in her mid-50's just whipped out a cigarette and started puffing away in front of the very conservative principal. She didn't care, she was tenured and only a few years away from retirement. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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The first emotional response for the typical Korean, mostly the girls, are to hit. I see it everyday. They must get and watch a healthy dose of it at home.
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Too bad the article didn't happen to mention the girls' actual age.
Cigarettes are blurred out on TV here? I didn't notice, except for a movie blurring out a marijuana joint. |
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