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American English teacher robs convenience store in Daegu
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ytide



Joined: 26 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 10:46 pm    Post subject: American English teacher robs convenience store in Daegu Reply with quote

I never would've thought this'd happen. Shocked

He was drunk, improvised a weapon, stumbled in, pointed it at the poor part-timer girl, walked off with 600,00 KRW....and cigarettes.

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http://populargusts.blogspot.kr/2013/05/american-english-teacher-robs.html

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American English teacher robs convenience store... blows the money at a casino
Taught openly for three days before he was arrested

(Daegu - Yonhap News) An elementary school native speaking English teacher robbed a convenience store but the fact he was arrested was belatedly confirmed.

For three days after committing the crime the currently employed native speaking English teacher openly went to school and taught children until he was arrested.

Gyeongsangbuk-do Police Agency revealed that they arrested American native speaking teacher A (27) for going into a convenience store with a weapon, threatening a female clerk and stealing 600,000 won and cigarettes

Teacher A is suspected of entering a convenience store in Gyeongsan at 10:20 pm on April 21 wearing a hat, sunglasses and a hood to cover his face. He threatened a female clerk with a weapon he'd prepared and stole 600,000 won and ten packs of cigarettes.

The investigation found that the day after the robbery, he went to the casino at the Hotel Inter-Burgo in Daegu and bought 200,000 won worth of casino chips and exchanged 50,000 won notes to use.

An official from the Gyeongsangbuk-do Police Agency said that "Teacher A was drunk when he committed the crime." "CCTV cameras in the area of the convenience store revealed that teacher A carefully committed the crime, changing his clothes after leaving the store and returning home."

The arrested teacher, A, came to Korea in August 2010 and worked as a native speaking teacher in places like Yeongdeok and Gyeongsan in Gyeongsangbuk-do.

He taught elementary school students 15 hours a week in after school English classes.

A school official said, "Until we were notified by police, we knew absolutely nothing about the crime." "Teacher A was stripped of his qualifications on May 1."


If the accusations are true, there's not much more to say than "Nicely done, douchebag."

I do find the whole "he taught openly" part to be odd (was he going to teach secretly?), though that's more a journalistic convention than anything else. Stranger still is the idea that the school - or anyone - could have known what he'd done prior to his arrest. "Until we were notified by police, we knew absolutely nothing about the crime." Well, duh.

I'd be curious to see how long he's put in jail for - I imagine using a weapon in a robbery doesn't go over very well with courts.


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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, everyone; time to get a Korean background check--again!

Good grief.
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le-paul



Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre

PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well done nob head
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CentralCali



Joined: 17 May 2007

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, I especially liked this part from the "journalist":

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"CCTV cameras in the area of the convenience store revealed that teacher A carefully committed the crime, changing his clothes after leaving the store and returning home."


After all, doesn't everyone return home and just lounge around in a hat, sunglasses, and hood?
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ytide



Joined: 26 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Comments on this story from Naver-News
[With my translations, which may be imperfect]
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rhem**** wrote
역시 영어 강사는 쓰레기들이 많어....
[As expected, English teachers are trash.]

smc4**** wrote:
미국사람이 한국 원어민 강사 되기란 누워서 떡먹기 ,졸업장은 얼마든지 위조 해도 모르고 ,미국 노숙자들도 마음만 먹으면 한국 에서
[For Americans, it so easy to be a native-English-teacher in Korea, that even their bums/homeless can forge diplomas and come over, if they put their minds to it.]

rkii**** wrote:
27살 쳐먹고 원어민강사면 강사일이나 열심히 할껏이지 학생들가르치는놈이강도짓하고 그돈으로 카지노? 아주 ㅅ ㅣ불놈이 가지 가지하네..너같은쓰레기는 매보단 디지기게 최선이다
[This so-called teacher is robbing and gambling at age 27 instead of doing his job. What a total f***ing bastard. Trash like you are better killed than just punished.]
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Let's not do the racist netizens yet. I'm still angry at this idiotic English teacher. One at a time.
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Scorpion



Joined: 15 Apr 2012

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a complete dick. Lock the fool up and throw away the key. Better still, hand him over to us. Invite the media, and let them report to the public how the vast majority of English teachers in Korea feel about such behavior.

If anyone knows this clown please post his photo.
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TheUrbanMyth



Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm wondering if he's a poster on here who took the stories of police incompetence on Dave's a little too much to heart.

On a more serious note what is the matter with that moron? There weren't enough hoops to jump through for the rest of us?
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ghostrider



Joined: 27 Jun 2011

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard he was Korean American. So maybe he was able to get a work visa without having to submit a background check because of his Korean ancestry.
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Scorpion



Joined: 15 Apr 2012

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ghostrider wrote:
I heard he was Korean American.


From what source did you hear this? Did they mention a "Mr. Park"? If not, how do you know this? If it's true it's interesting. But all Joe Public will hear is 'English teacher' and calls will be made for more stringent E-2 regulations. Either way the clown needs to be taken into a back alley.

Robbing convenience stores. Shocked
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NohopeSeriously



Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ghostrider wrote:
I heard he was Korean American.


Yes, he is.

http://www.newsis.com/ar_detail/view.html?ar_id=NISX20130515_0012085353&cID=10202&pID=10200

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경북 경산경찰서는 흉기를 들고 편의점에 들어가 강도행각을 벌인 한국계 미국인 초등학교 원어민 강사 A(27)씨를 붙잡아 특수강도 등 혐의로 구속해 검찰에 송치했다고 15일 밝혔다.


I don't mind it. I'm a Korean-Canadian (more like Korean-Quebecker) anyways. I try to avoid Korean-Americans (especially West Coast Korean-Americans) in most of the cases.
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radcon



Joined: 23 May 2011

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This guy robbed a store hence he is an American. If he had won an olympic gold medal he would be referred to as KOREAN American.
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Julius



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nohopeseriously wrote:
ghostrider wrote:
I heard he was Korean American.


Yes, he is.


Ah but of course...

How many mentally-challenged newbies know enough Korean to rob a store?
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Scorpion



Joined: 15 Apr 2012

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What visa was the fool on? Was he born in the States or Korea. Did he have to undergo a background check? Because last year they caught two gyopos working here wanted for murder in the states. Now we have gyopos holding up convenience stores with improvied weapons.

Time to toughen the E-2 visas again for the rest of us again, I suppose. Confused
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009

PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NohopeSeriously wrote:
ghostrider wrote:
I heard he was Korean American.


Yes, he is.

http://www.newsis.com/ar_detail/view.html?ar_id=NISX20130515_0012085353&cID=10202&pID=10200

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경북 경산경찰서는 흉기를 들고 편의점에 들어가 강도행각을 벌인 한국계 미국인 초등학교 원어민 강사 A(27)씨를 붙잡아 특수강도 등 혐의로 구속해 검찰에 송치했다고 15일 밝혔다.


I don't mind it. I'm a Korean-Canadian (more like Korean-Quebecker) anyways.


Korean American Korean Canadian, no difference, the same Laughing


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