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[fosterman]

[Dave Chance]

A member of the victim's family said in a telephone interview with the Chosun Ilbo, "When we met with police, they tried to haggle, telling us to stop demanding they publish the recording of the victim�s call and let the matter drop."
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/04/13/2012041301337.html

[johnnyrook]

Reading this thread reminds me of an incident that happened to me towards the end of last year, in Suwon funnily enough.

It was my last week working in my job so I was staying up late organising all the junk I'd accumulated over two years in the country. I had a pile of clothes I didn't wanna keep anymore so I decided to throw them in one of those charity bins.

It was 1:30am on a weeknight, the streets were dead quiet, but as I approached the charity bin, a black van was driving down the street towards me. The bin was hidden behind a few cars that I had to slide between to reach it, and as I was emptying my clothes in the van came to a stop behind me.

Now, I was wearing loose trackpants and a hoodie, with the hood over my head, and with my back turned and the parked cars slightly obscuring me I guess my identity could have been rather ambiguous to anyone viewing me from the van. After about ten seconds, feeling a bit uneasy about why this van had stopped right there, I turned around with my hood down, in full view. I noticed the car's windows were tinted so it was impossible to see inside. After a few moments of me showing myself in my full 남외국인 glory the van drove away.

Well, there might be another perfectly logical reason for the driver behaving like that, but I was pretty creeped out anyway, and was glad that I'd gone down with the clothes and left my girlfriend to continue the cleaning upstairs.

[Seoulman69]

[Times30]

[fermentation]

[jfromtheway]

[Steelrails]

Anyone who claims S. Korea is somehow a crime-free paradise is living in la-la land. Statistics are statistics.

At the same time, for anyone who grew up in some place back home that wasn't a sleepy suburb or rural area, to suggest that somehow its more dangerous here seems just a little silly as well.

The absence of things like occasional gunshots, worries about getting robbed at work, friends and acquaintances getting murdered, and neighborhoods to avoid at night, and overt gang activity that preys on random pedestrians makes the place appear much more secure. I mean the liquor stores here don't have bullet proof glass, there's no metal detectors in the schools, and I don't have to lock my car and take off my stereo face if I go into a 7-eleven at 1 in the morning.

On the other hand, back home I never thought "well I may die tonight" while riding in a taxi...

[GEOM]

The Korean police is still getting burned.

I was worried that this matter regarding police incompetence was going to drop away after a week or so, instead the story is worse and worse by the day.

The Korean Police Agency really dug their own graves in this incident.

According to the following report the Emergency call center hung up the phone first.

http://www.asiatoday.co.kr/news/view.asp?seq=621789

"A씨의 전화는 112신고센터와 연결된 상태에서 6분여간 계속 켜져있었다. "잘못했어요, 아저씨 잘못했어요" 등과 같은 긴박한 통화 내용에 이어, 테이프 찢는 소리와 비명소리 등의 소리를 상황실 내 20여명의 직원이 함께 들었지만 '부부싸움'을 하는 것으로 보고 초동대처를 제대로 하지 않았다."

"Ms. A's call was connected with the 112 Emergency call center for around 6 minutes. Despite the urgency in the women's pleas to her captor (addressing him as Ajosshi), the screams, and the tearing sound of Adhesive tape being used, the 20 or so employees who were listening in reported it as 'domestic violence'/'domestic issue' and fumbled the initial procedures."

[Captain Corea]

That's not really a new revelation... but yeah, it's disheartening to say the least.

[I-am-me]

You gotta love how Koreans and Chinese seem to ignore cries of pain. This reminds me of when that girl in China was run over repeatedly and everyone just walked by. What were the korean neighbors doing while this lady was screaming her head off? Nothing!!! That is scarier than the crime itself. You can count on no help if that happens to you.

[dereklee003]

[Yaya]

[Dave Chance]

[Mariner]