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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I saw the weirdest thing in a subway station. Two very middle classed 40something ajummas having a screaming match and slap fight right on the subway platform. They were all decked out in their designer hiking clothes, North Face backpacks, and sun-visor-c_um-iron-welder caps. Not knowing the language, best I could figure is one of the women felt slighted, expressed her outrage, and the woman making the social slight was dismissive of her complaint. The slighted ajumma went and clocked the dismissive ajumma. It heated up from there. I wished I could have planted myself and watched the bataille royale but that would have seemed rude. You just wonder what in the world two middle classed 40something ajummas would have to fight over? "You told our church group my a_ss looked big in my new sweat pants!"

All I know is the screaming continued as I shuffled down to the far end of the platform.

This is not to say you don't see that type of thing in North America. A few days ago that senator's wife attacked some woman in a Home Depot with a bag of fertilizer or something. It's just I never expected it in Seoul.

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Arg it would seem the latin word "c_um" is caught by the swear filter.

HardyandTiny · Joined: 03 Jun 2003

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

I've seen the same kind of thing but with two very finely dressed ajoshi's who must have been about 70 if they were a day. Odd ...

lush72 · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: I am Penalty Kick!

JackSarang · Joined: 28 Jan 2003

Ask a Korean about �� ȭ.

They throw hissy fits over anything then forget about it 10 minutes later.

HardyandTiny · Joined: 03 Jun 2003

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

One time, taking the train from Kyongju to Pusan, the train stopped along the coast in the country before Pusan and on boarded country tilling ajummas bearing bags and baskets of produce to sell downtown and get a better price for. The train suddenly, tearfully, reeked of onions and one country ajumma was really pissed off at another sitting opposite her, for some reason, and they were tough. They had big hands and the arms of men from tilling and roughing stuff around in their country work and she was really, to the death (apparently) pissed about something with lots of shouting and the other 'muscle-ajummas' at one point attempting to hold them apart because they were flying in the face of danger to the death.

dman · Joined: 22 Mar 2004

The fights I've seen are great two 40 somethings taking off their shoes and beating the hell out of each other. I just stood there and watched the whole thing everyone around was ashamed a foreigner was watching by the looks I got. I just smiled at them and put two thumbs up. I hope next time I have a chair and a few cold ones. God I love this little sh\t hole country.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

own_king · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Location: here

I saw two well-dressed adachies going at it on Hooker Hill - yelling and screaming. Then one guy went into one of the Ho-Bars and grabbed a stool and started chasing the other guy up hill, while some Ho from the bar was chasing after him to try to get the stool back. Funniest sh*t I ever saw Laughing

I love Korea!

bignate · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Location: Hell's Ditch

You haven't seen anything until you've seen two legless beggars (you know the ones who roll around on the boards with wheels, with the innertube pants) go at it while cruising through one of the subway cars.

It seemed that they were pi$$ed at each other because they were both competing for the same space. They went at it tooth and nail. It was really weird and kind of sad.

peemil · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Koowoompa

I don't know... Why did you leave? After a long time in Korea I'm begin to stare with the best of them. I would've loved to have seen to ajummas going at it... Not in a sexual sense though. On my sicker days though... Hmmm.... Twisted Evil

Mosley · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I saw two adjummas going at it(one of them had to be restrained) during my first month here(in Suwon, I believe). Stopped me right in my tracks, mainly because after 5 years in Japan, I had come to think that that kind of public behavior was beyond the pale. In fact, in Japan, a public display of anger is so rare that when you do see one, it leaves you gobsmacked. Here? Belligerent actions are common enough that they hardly faze me anymore.