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Yaya
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 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:58 pm Post subject: Gov't to stop expat-heavy neighborhoods from becoming slums |
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SEOUL, April 4 (Yonhap) -- The government said Monday it will provide more support to programs aimed at improving the living environment of the nation's foreigner-heavy neighborhoods, as some of them are showing signs of turning into slums with high crime rates.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2011/04/04/22/0200000000AEN20110404009400315F.HTML |
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Mr. Peabody
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| I hope they do something about HBC. That place is really getting ratty. |
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myenglishisno
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Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
| I hope they do something about HBC. That place is really getting ratty. |
They're starting to board up sidewalks with dark brown coloured lumber. They've done it to a number of businesses and apartments recently in order to make them look "nicer."
To me, it's kind of like putting sprinkles on diarrhea... |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| slums?!? like they dont have dilipidated places full of the poorer K-familys already? foreigners?!? what foreigners? english teachers? |
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Hugo85
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| They mean D-3 workers. |
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DaHu
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Hugo85 wrote: |
| They mean D-3 workers. |
Yes, pay them a wage barely enough to eat on, and wonder why they live in slums.  |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Did anyone else notice how these "improvements" began with this:
"....by building more street lights, surveillance cameras..." |
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Koreadays
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| slums? with those rent prices? hahahahaha |
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jdog2050
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
| I hope they do something about HBC. That place is really getting ratty. |
...the hell are you talking about? HBC is doing better now than it ever has. |
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MacLean
Joined: 14 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| DaHu wrote: |
| Hugo85 wrote: |
| They mean D-3 workers. |
Yes, pay them a wage barely enough to eat on, and wonder why they live in slums. |
Exactly. And the only real crime involving the 3D workers is how they are treated by their Korean employers. You think we've got gripes. Sit down and talk to a 3D worker sometime. We tend to think of hagwon owners as petty criminals. But the people who hire and exploit 3D workers, and the officials who shrug it off, are the real criminals. Put surveillance cameras on them. Let the 'streetlights' expose their crimes. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The vast majority of 'foreigner-related crime' in Korea has foreigners as the victims. Koreans as the perpetrators. Get the media to cover that.
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| jdog2050 wrote: |
| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
| I hope they do something about HBC. That place is really getting ratty. |
...the hell are you talking about? HBC is doing better now than it ever has. |
On the main drag, yeah. I wouldn't want my girlfriend walking home late at night through the back alleys without me, though.
I really prefer living across the street in Kyungnidan. We've got sidewalks, beeyotch!  |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
| jdog2050 wrote: |
| Mr. Peabody wrote: |
| I hope they do something about HBC. That place is really getting ratty. |
...the hell are you talking about? HBC is doing better now than it ever has. |
On the main drag, yeah. I wouldn't want my girlfriend walking home late at night through the back alleys without me, though.
I really prefer living across the street in Kyungnidan. We've got sidewalks, beeyotch! |
I know a few people over there and they say it's better, however we have all the good food. |
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markhan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| MacLean wrote: |
| DaHu wrote: |
| Hugo85 wrote: |
| They mean D-3 workers. |
Yes, pay them a wage barely enough to eat on, and wonder why they live in slums. |
Exactly. And the only real crime involving the 3D workers is how they are treated by their Korean employers. You think we've got gripes. Sit down and talk to a 3D worker sometime. We tend to think of hagwon owners as petty criminals. But the people who hire and exploit 3D workers, and the officials who shrug it off, are the real criminals. Put surveillance cameras on them. Let the 'streetlights' expose their crimes. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The vast majority of 'foreigner-related crime' in Korea has foreigners as the victims. Koreans as the perpetrators. Get the media to cover that. |
Do you speak or understand Korean?
Because news on the mistreatment of foreigners have done ad nauseum in Korean media.
And I might add that, foreigners who are staying in Korea illegally (and there are many and this is where many Koreans are concerned with), given that they have limited resources in finding a legal job in Korea, are more susceptible to crime when compared to local citizens. This is the fact no matter where you go, whether in Europe, US, or Asia.
I suggest that before you accuse anyone of something, at least understand the language and read or watch news, news magazine, or similar programs in their native language.
For if you did, you would not have made such an absolute statement as above. |
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MacLean
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Fine. If the media has started covering it that's awesome. It's about bloody time. The rest of my post - about foreigners being far more likely to be the victims of Koreans - I stand by 100%. I don't need to be fluent in Korean to know that....Oh, since you apparently are fluent in Korean, could you direct me to some newspaper articles on the crimes perpetrated against foreigners by hogwan owners. I can get a Korean friend to translate it for me.
Thanks in advance. |
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s10czar
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| "marriage immigrants"??? |
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