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[Hugo85]

[Julius]

[Troglodyte]

[rainman3277]

[Hugo85]

[matthews_world]

Korea's no fun anymore.

Just recently, public school teachers can't smoke outside due to it being a negative light on the children.

And their also prohibiting smoking inside restaurants and going the California route starting in 2014.

With all of the CCTV's and the crackdown on personal freedoms, it's easy to say that S. Korea is becoming more Big Brother each and every day.

This coming from a non-smoker and non-drinker.

[matthews_world]

Korea's no fun anymore.

Just recently, public school teachers can't smoke outside due to it being a negative light on the children.

And their also prohibiting smoking inside restaurants and going the California route starting in 2014.

With all of the CCTV's and the crackdown on personal freedoms, it's easy to say that S. Korea is becoming more Big Brother each and every day.

This coming from a non-smoker and non-drinker.

[pegasus64128]

I hear what people are saying about Korea becoming anal. It's been going that way for the last decade probably. It's sad that Koreans are becoming those really annoying Californians you sometimes meet with big sparkling teeth and overly formal, by the book mentality, superficial focus on looks and a superiority complex. That will be an increasingly bitter pill to swallow for actual Californians when Koreans visit there since California is becoming more like Mexico every day.

I don't drink or smoke in parks or around school so it doesn't effect me, but it does bother me that I can't! All the teachers at my public school are relentlessly brushing their teeth, and the prizes for the winning sports team members in a recent competition were tubes of toothpaste.

Korea's only really a good place for young single men and young couples anyway. When it ceases to be fun to go on the hunt for women without having to do the American/Californian thing - behaving like a politically and socially correct d-bag to get laid, that's when you know it's fully anal. It's certainly not at that point yet though.

The new requirement to have a 50cc hairdryer of a bike registered and insured is another sign of anality. There could be lawyers coming out of the ceiling if they keep going down that overly formal road as they are. Everyone will have etiquette stuffed up their ass so bad that even basic motor action won't be free.

[Emark]

While I was wearing my tin-foil hat I had this short apparition.

There must be some sort of hidden agenda for a new tax or other revenue generating schemes like fines and inprisionment coming down the chute.

(with my hat off) What did I just say? Forget it.

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[tardisrider]

[fermentation]

People who think Korea's becoming a nanny state are fogetting it's not been that long ago we had a military dictatorship. This sort of thing is nothing new. I question the point of this law because it doesn't seem to really do anything. Like with anything else in this country, I wonder if they'll even bother to enforce it.

[thunderbird]

go outside, crack open a beer, see if any1 cares

[trish91198]

I agree that it will most likely not be enforced. Even if they try to enforce it, I feel that often, the Korean cops get tired of repeating themselves and just let stuff go.

[PatrickGHBusan]

This is pretty funny.

Korea passes laws and rules to better regulate the activities of people (smoking and drinking restrictions, driving and parking restrictions) and people here complain Korea is no fun anymore. Yet, many of those same people will complain all day long how Korea is barbaric, lacks rules and is chaotic or how koreans have no manners and drink and smoke too much in public.

Hilarious.