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[TheUrbanMyth]

[ewlandon]

I remember being in Portland Oregon (a nice liberal city) a few months before coming to Korea and some kids at a bus stop were flipping off me and my friend (a good 10 years older than them) then trying to look mean like they wanted to fight. It was really strange and awkward but they were just being tough teenage kids trying to impress their friends.

If I had got mad at them or said something it may have escalated into a fight, but i shrugged it off.

In this case we were all white males in a white country.

Race does come into play sometimes but sometimes kids just want to fight, and if you're drunk you may be more likely to do something to the instigator that will just escelate it to that level.

I hope I ever drunkenly end up in a situation like that while in Korea because fighting sucks.

[The Floating World]

[Steelrails]

I propose a "fight thread" Godwin's law: As the length of the thread increases, the odds substantially increase that both MMA will be mentioned and fight styles argued over, as well as the movie Fight Club being mentioned.

[eat_yeot]

[PatrickGHBusan]

Just to put Superman WT the crusaders account of what happened in perspective...

His thread: I stopped an assault

Hist first sentence in his OP:

[World Traveler]

I shouldn't even dignify that with a response.

But yes, another poster (a well known troll who likes to pick e-fights), stated (with certainty) that my story was a lie. Ah yes, it was so far fetched, right?

I posted a link to a story of another person who was attacked in the same park without provocation. (To show that, yes, it does happen.)

I didn't even definatively say that what I saw had racist origins, but there have been racist attacks in the past, as one can see from the numerous other accounts within this thread (at least one of which has been deleted by a mod).

[PatrickGHBusan]

Now no WT...that thread in NO WAY verifies your story. An ACTUAL NEWS STORY from last night would have done that.

A 3 year old thread does not verify anything that you said.

Still, it WAS an entertaining read...keep that fiction coming and if you work on your craft may produce some entertaining short stories or perhaps a smashing graphic novel if you can draw!

I can see already: The WT Chronicles.

[ZIFA]

[toby99]

I go out in Hongdae quite often and see a good number of folks get jacked up, however I assume it's due to drinking themselves silly (and with 1,900 won shots of tequila found on every corner, it ain't hard to overindulge) and fighting over chicks. Most of the action I see are Kyopos getting into it with the locals or vice versa, usually pissed out of their skulls and fighting over some broad they met at the Tinpan. I have rarely (if ever) seen a westerner get caught up in that riff raff, at least not in Hongdae (Itaewon is another story).

[Seoulman69]

I've heard stories and a lad from my work got beaten up in Hongdae for no apparent reason, so it does happen.
I'd advise to stay in groups and keep yourself to yourself. If you find yourself in trouble then try to run away. If it's not possible then I hope you know some self defense.

[Bloopity Bloop]

I was watching a fight between 2 natives a month or so ago when a drunk Korean sucker-punched me in the head from behind.

I yelled, "WTF?!", turned around and was about to put in some work when his friend, who seemed to have just been watching as his friend randomly attacked me, suddenly jumped in and started apologizing to me in English.

So... if he hadn't known I was a foreigner, would he have just let me beat his friend into the ground? Or maybe try to take me on, too?

Really odd.

(I'm an Asian-American and Koreans almost always think I'm one of them)

This all happened around Konkuk Uni. In the 1.5+ years I've lived in this part of Seoul, it seems like college aged males seem to be getting more aggressive. I don't mind a scrap, though, so it ain't all bad

[Weigookin74]

[Weigookin74]