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rchristo10
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
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 Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 4:38 pm Post subject: Korea really does have gangsters! Only 40 years to admit it. |
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110531000537
Police are investigating allegations that former gang leader Cho Yang-eun blackmailed a singer to compensate his acquaintance for loss from his stock investment.
Police said the notorious gangster, 60, intimidated the singer in August 2009, and threatened to chop the man�s leg off and bury it unless he paid back 1.7 billion won.
Cho denied the charges, though he admitted having met the man.
Cho led now-debunked �Yangeun Faction,� one of Korea�s largest crime rings, in the 1970s. |
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thejasman1
Joined: 13 Sep 2010
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| Of course there are Korean gangsters. Every country has them. In the Korean Club scene just to open a new club you need to get the permission of the older gangsters running that particular terf as I am told by a former club owner who I won't mention. Look at all the prostitution in Korea that is all done illegally but just swept under the table. Whenever you have some black market things going on you always have gangsters and they work them selves in to every part of society including the pop sensations. Korea is so small and networking is so influential here it's perfect for corruption. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Korean gangsters were first showed in public and the mass media when the first American-installed president Rhee hired gangsters to rig the national election.  That was like 50 years ago. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:20 am Post subject: |
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Where have you been OP?
Like every fifth Korean movie is about the Korean mob...
But this is Dave's... |
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rchristo10
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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I never knew hired thugs (which is not organized crime--i.e. gangsters) and movies could be used as a means of saying that something truly exist.
I feel enlightened cuz I honestly knew that ET was personally responsible for polluting Korean water near the army bases! |
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RangerMcGreggor
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
Location: Somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Koreans were keeping this a secret? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| rchristo10 wrote: |
I never knew hired thugs (which is not organized crime--i.e. gangsters) and movies could be used as a means of saying that something truly exist.
I feel enlightened cuz I honestly knew that ET was personally responsible for polluting Korean water near the army bases! |
Yes, but those movies are called science fiction or fantasy.
If Korean's considered K-mafia movies a fantasy then maybe, but they are not.
Dude, everyone in Korea knows there's organized crime here and freely admits it. The only people who don't are out of the loop foreigners who try to drum up issues on Dave's. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I don't understand the point of this thread. I've never heard a Korean person deny the existence of Korean gangsters. I've never seen a statement issued in any news source denying the existence of Korean gangsters.
Maybe the OP has a Korean friend/coworker that denied them? But that doesn't mean that the majority (or even a sizeable minority) of Koreans deny it.
In fact, if you have tattoos or know someone who does, then you'll probably know the ways in which Koreans associate tattoos. If you ever asked your Korean friends who owns the kissing rooms, night clubs, bars and singing rooms, I'm sure you'll get a direct answer.
Nice troll..... |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:47 am Post subject: |
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Is it true that many of the beggars missing legs you see on the pavements around Seoul are victims of gangsters?
I was told that gangsters chopped peoples legs off for non-payment of debts. |
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