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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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Did anyone else notice how these "improvements" began with this:
"....by building more street lights, surveillance cameras..." |
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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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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
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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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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