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Fighting in Shinchon?
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JackSarang



Joined: 28 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Apparently a Canadian teacher got the crap beat out of him by a bunch of Koreans in Hongdae on Saturday night for no other reason that they thought he was American and they were exacting retribution for the stabbing. Apparently they whipped him with chains and such and he's in pretty bad shape.

Anyone else hear anything about that?
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Arthur Fonzerelli



Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Location: Suwon

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 2:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JackSarang wrote:
Apparently a Canadian teacher got the crap beat out of him by a bunch of Koreans in Hongdae on Saturday night for no other reason that they thought he was American and they were exacting retribution for the stabbing. Apparently they whipped him with chains and such and he's in pretty bad shape.

Anyone else hear anything about that?


I heard the Koreans hired martial artist Jackie Chan to come and beat some slacker Canadians with bamboo sticks in vengance of the attacks....
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Alias



Joined: 24 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JackSarang wrote:
Apparently a Canadian teacher got the crap beat out of him by a bunch of Koreans in Hongdae on Saturday night for no other reason that they thought he was American and they were exacting retribution for the stabbing. Apparently they whipped him with chains and such and he's in pretty bad shape.

Anyone else hear anything about that?


Time to sew that Canadian flag back on the bookbag. Laughing
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Neil



Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: Tokyo

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yaya wrote:
I think the guys involved must be either new to Korea or just went too wild one night. Thing is, I met plenty of American service personnel in Korea who were well-behaved and appreciated Korea far more than other foreigners who CHOSE to come to Korea.



Has the draft been brought back?
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kangnamdragon



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Neil wrote:
Yaya wrote:
I think the guys involved must be either new to Korea or just went too wild one night. Thing is, I met plenty of American service personnel in Korea who were well-behaved and appreciated Korea far more than other foreigners who CHOSE to come to Korea.



Has the draft been brought back?


No, just American stupidity.
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Ryst Helmut



Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kangnamdragon wrote:
Neil wrote:
Yaya wrote:
I think the guys involved must be either new to Korea or just went too wild one night. Thing is, I met plenty of American service personnel in Korea who were well-behaved and appreciated Korea far more than other foreigners who CHOSE to come to Korea.



Has the draft been brought back?


No, just American stupidity.


LOL, yeah....thank goodness we've SMRT people on this board!!!! Rolling Eyes


Shoosh,

Ryst
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Swiss James



Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Itaewonguy wrote:
so what americans had a fight with some drunken adosi who was probably provoking them in the first place!!!!
he got his arse kicked.. and then cries about it..


From all reports they flagged down a taxi driver (who presumably wasn't drunk) and then stomped on his car. I'm not sure how that constitutes asking for it.

I know a lot of my korean workmates who've been out and gotten into fights with other koreans. Some people get aggro when they drink- always have, always will. It's just a shame that it has to become part of something much bigger when you throw in the USA angle. Throw the fighters in jail and promise to enforce the curfew more strictly I say.
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jaganath69



Joined: 17 Jul 2003

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll start this with a disclaimer. I am friendly with a few GIs and have enjoyed a drink and pleasant company with more than a few more. I find most of them to be decent, polite and interesting people. That being said, they are not usually the ones I run into in off-limits areas beyond curfew.

I'm begining to wonder if the MPs and the top brass of the USFK have an unwritten policy of turning a blind eye to curfew and off-limits violations. The incidences of such are so numerous that it beggars belief that there aren't paddy wagons full of GIs rounded up in Sinchon and Hongdae every weekend. If their superiors can't keep an eye on a few thousand of their own men, how the heck are they going to fight and defeat a million North Koreans. Something needs to be done, anyone got the number for the USFK commander?

Cheers

Jaga
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JackSarang



Joined: 28 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jaganath69 wrote:

I'm begining to wonder if the MPs and the top brass of the USFK have an unwritten policy of turning a blind eye to curfew and off-limits violations. The incidences of such are so numerous that it beggars belief that there aren't paddy wagons full of GIs rounded up in Sinchon and Hongdae every weekend. If their superiors can't keep an eye on a few thousand of their own men, how the heck are they going to fight and defeat a million North Koreans. Something needs to be done, anyone got the number for the USFK commander?


Its my understanding that alot of soldiers don't live on post. So its not like the MP's can go to every GI's house and make sure they're home after 1am. Or they might be on leave or whatever.
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SuperHero



Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JackSarang wrote:
Its my understanding that alot of soldiers don't live on post. So its not like the MP's can go to every GI's house and make sure they're home after 1am. Or they might be on leave or whatever.


my understanding is only officers are allowed to live off post. could be wrong but that's what I remember being told by my leiutenant buddy before he left the country
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paperbag princess



Joined: 07 Mar 2004
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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

there are d*ckheads from every country. we just see alot of bad americans b/c of the military, i guess.
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Every single one of the "bad Americans" I've met here, has turned out to be an ESLer. I didnt realize class distinctions were still so common among the university educated- thought we were supposed to be "enlightened". Confused
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danyuk



Joined: 17 Jun 2003

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Arthur Fonzerelli wrote:
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Not all of us are drunken skirt-chasers "here for a good time not a long time" as the song goes.


you could have fooled me... Shocked


How does one propose to have a good time here if the women are taken out of the equation. Geez, you Must be having SUCH a 'good time not a long time'?
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itaewonguy



Joined: 25 Mar 2003

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JackSarang wrote:
Apparently a Canadian teacher got the crap beat out of him by a bunch of Koreans in Hongdae on Saturday night for no other reason that they thought he was American and they were exacting retribution for the stabbing. Apparently they whipped him with chains and such and he's in pretty bad shape.

Anyone else hear anything about that?


probably.. I have seen koreans starts fights with foreigners in the early mornings for the hell of it..
happens every country.. racial hate crimes..
ITS BULLOCKS.. would like to think the kids of this generation would be alittle more intelligent than our parents generation...
people still slowly the world down...
but if it happens to me..
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