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Homer · Guest

In 7 years, I have not seen that either (much like Lemon, Corp and others) must be a special kind of epidemic.

Then again, I don't go looking for it either. If you look for something long enough, you will usually end up finding it if it is there or not. Wink

Married too Kiwi but we go out most weekends, many times until late at night and lord in heaven, I didn't see hordes of korean men beating on korean women....strange.

Also, corp makes an excellent point when she said that most posters on here say they saw these things in broad daylight with people around....and since I am also a daywalker...

Well, I am sure it happens, to deny that abuse happens would be dumb.

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Don't usually post on these threads but it is interesting how different people experience different things in the same place.

I've seen it happen on the street (I was in a bus) in Kangnam. Saw the aftermath of a hit (my friend was seething and ready to pound the hitter but the hitter didn't make another move). In Beaver's Wings two guys were in a screaming match with two female customers and the one grabbed an ashtray to throw at the women but I grabbed it out of his hand before he completed the action and shuffled him and his inbred friend out of the bar. Early (very very early) one morning a few years back when I lived in Shinchon I saw a younger guy smack a girl good and proper.

I've seen these things and I don't go looking at all (hell, I avoid looking 'cause I don't like to believe this sort of thing exists).

Corporal · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Okay, so this is what happened to me today though! Shocked

It was late afternoon, and I had an hour break between classes, so I was having a lovely samgyetang supper at the restaurant around the corner from my school. I was the only patron in the place, until about halfway through my meal a man and a woman came in and sat down. The woman was talking very angrily to the man about money. Then, to my shock, right there IN BROAD DAYLIGHT (or fluorescent light to be more exact,) she clocked him! He just kind of shrugged it off and they continued arguing. But poor fellow! I tell you, I was about ready to go over there and give that chick a taste of her own medicine. I was going to say, "We don't treat men like that where I come from, honey." I'm not scared. I could take down any Korean girl in a fight, I don't care HOW much taekwondo training they have. Korean girls are all the same, get them on the floor and they're useless. And don't even get me started on how small their chests are. But I digress. I just sat there wondering if the store owners were going to get involved. I couldn't believe Koreans would put up with this blatant show of abuse and cowardice. Finally I gave the woman the evil eye and muttered under my breath if she ever dared to slap around her poor defenceless husband again, I would be calling up my buddies and we'd be paying her a visit. Man. That kind of stuff really steams me, y'know?

Laughing

sistersarah · Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Location: hiding out

I'm another who hasn't yet witnessed a guy hitting a girl here. i hope i never do. it's so funny....because i used to live very close to shinchon...i was out and about at least twice a week, you know, livin it up, lotsa bars, early mornings....never saw it. hey, not saying others haven't seen it.....who knows.

sadly i have experienced abuse such as this firsthand. some may remember me out in hongdae one night being pushed in the street by my boyfriend at the time....oh yeah, he was from canada so there must've been a good reason for it, eh? or maybe he was influenced by all the koreans out beatin their girls. damn korea.

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

Some of you have not seen Korean domestic violence, I dont doubt it at all. I hope you never have to witness a woman being attacked in public while everyone around pretends not to notice. Its terrible, in any culture. I have seen it too often here, and while you may not have, that does not lessen or negate my experience, just as mine does not lessen and negate yours.

I never saw a car get stolen at home, yet it happens so frequently that NYC and NJ have the highest auto insurance premiums in America. Again, I never, in over 25 years, saw a car get stolen even once. What conclusion should I draw from this? Cars dont get stolen? The numbers are inflated?

Apple Scruff · Joined: 29 Oct 2003

Homer · Guest

flutieflakes · Joined: 16 Mar 2003

then you should see japanese porn where the theme in almost every movie is rape.............

cheem · Joined: 18 Apr 2003

Homer · Guest

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

I've posted these stats before, 25% of women in England repost domenstic abuse and 38% of Korean women.

Having said that, I saw more of it in my one year in dirty blue collar Pohang than I have in my two and a half years in swanky swinging Seoul.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

nateyb · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:35 am Post subject:

I personally have not seen it, but a friend did and she stepped up and told that guy off. She is four-foot-nothing...

Racial stuff aside.. If you see it, stop it. I don't really care about it when I am in the middle of trying to stop a fight. (If I found myself into one)

BTW, you go guru! best post I've read this year!