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[shakuhachi]

[jaebea]

Goddamn, just READING about it makes me seethe.

Someone gimme some morphine and restrain me before I hurt someone.. or myself!!

Ease up there Shaku .. :)

jae.

[coolsage]

When it comes to how women are viewed in this country, many Korean men still dwell in some dark age. Not long ago, there was a news item (and I can't track the source now, sorry) about a case that went to court here involving a young woman who was walking home late and alone. She happened to be wearing a miniskirt. Two drunken local yobs set upon her and raped her. They were apprehended. The judge ruled that she was 70% at fault, because she was dressed in a provocative manner. The yobs were assessed a token fine and were released, presumably to violate again. (I was personally disgusted at the outcome.) When this story was related to a Kyopo colleague, he agreed with the verdict. His words, approximately: "If she was walking alone at night in a miniskirt, she deserved it". If words like these express the attitude of a so-called educated individual who spent years in the US, one can only imagine the 'thinking' that occurs in the 'minds' of less gifted guys.

[shakuhachi]

Hi Jaebae,

I can see how you and some other Kyopo might feel unfairly labeled by my statement, but unfortunately it is born of solid experience.

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[rapier]

[waterbaby]

I got hassled a couple of times in Korea, mostly during my first few months while I must have had that vulnerable newbie look going on... and just last week I was hassled while walking down a very busy and main street of Melbourne by some guy who'd just come out of a *peep show. So yeah, it happens everywhere yadda yadda yadda...

The main difference for me between the two is that in Korea I felt powerless (though not in a physical sense) ... last week when it happened, I called the cops , something I felt unable to do in Korea - what would the cops do anyway even if I could speak decent enough Korean?

[mindmetoo]

Not to excuse these creeps but before we label this as an "only in Korea" thing, I wonder about the experience of Asian women in American navy towns. As there is a class of Korean men who only know white women in the capacity of Russian prostitutes, there's surely a class of American military or ex-military who only know Asian women as bar ho's in ports of call. And I'm sure they treat them accordingly state side.

[Hank Scorpio]

[Daechidong Waygookin]

Bad relationships in your past eh Hank? Now I see where that macho image you try and project comes from. Get over it, she dumped you, but it was probably for the best.

[peppermint]

So tell me Hank, where do women who earn their own money and are only out for the sex fall into your woldview?

[Hank Scorpio]

[Ody]

[Hank Scorpio]

[d503]

I think in the end there is a strong tendency for women to go for a guy with money and guys to go for a woman with looks.

That being said, I also think that the world is a changin', call it genes catching up with overpopulation (that's what I call it). I think more and more people of both sex are becoming less concerned with the lifetime feasibility of their mates. They are looking for people with whom they can find compatibility for a time. So when a lot of women go out now it with the idea of looking for a good time (and not the kind you find scrawled on the bathroom door with a triple X). They are looking for people to have fun with, sleep with, and enjoy themselves with. And the same goes for men. In the end I think the concept of a happy marriage, stable job, and family, is becoming a rarer and rarer goal for people.

While people take it when it happens I don't think it is the driving force in humanity's mentality, which I can only hope will mean we will see a higher and higher drop in the birth rates.

--crossing my fingers for the future, d503

[Ody]