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[dairyairy]

Is anyone else following the comments under the article at the original link? On comment #39 the author admits that he doesn't know when the "beach party" happened , who was there, or what actually happened.

Look for yourself
http://thethreewisemonkeys.com/2012/07/12/drunk-and-stupid-how-debauched-foreigners-feed-koreans-prejudices/

[TheUrbanMyth]

[nautilus]

[tiger fancini]

[dairyairy]

Between all of this rain and all of this talk about getting drunk I say have a good vacation, people! Tomorrow I'm off to Thailand! You can flame each other all you want in my honor. lol

[Adventurer]

I think what the author brought up is hard for me to comment without having all the facts. I do know that drinking is encouraged too much in South Korea and also Britain. The author spoke of wild behavior in England. According to statistics, Canadians and Americans drink a lot less alcohol than people in Britain. However, when people come to Korea, where even more alcohol is consumed, it can be a problem. That said, all of us have degrees and the vast majority of us act responsibly, but some young teachers who come with public schools come to orientations where there's alcohol. There shouldn't be any alcohol at such functions, and I wasn't at Wando, but I wonder who organized at that party? Those who organized it should have informed people where the bathrooms were. They should have anticipated any possible problems. In that case, you had many Westerners congregating together on a beach with all that alcohol and with some not knowing where the bathroom and not walking five minutes to the bathroom that was working. Of course, the locals would be livid, but that's the fault of the organizers to some extent, unless I'm mistaken. And maybe if you had a large group of Koreans drinking somewhere at a foreign beach who knows what could happen. I think the writer is so embarrassed, understandably, of the bad behavior of some of the expats. So are we, but they represent only a minority of us, and a small one. He did us all a disservice and seem to say we somehow deserve the prejudice that comes toward us. Many Koreans don't need much of a reason to hate us. You choose to hate if you want regardless of your nationality.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption

[dairyairy]

[sojusucks]

I suspect he was just trying to make a name for himself, for whatever reason. Didn't someone say he has a blog? That would be the ticket.