Korean Job Discussion Forums

[W.T.Carl]

Under threat? Get out of the city you urban knucklehead and see for yourself.

[Dr. Buck]

A few things:

buddy bradley: The birds you can hunt on Jeju Island are ring-necked pheasants. Also, you hunt them with shotguns, not rifles--a matter of two entirely different firearms.

The poster "burnin rubber" is correct in this statement:
"Be prepared to pay a lot though, I thought about shooting at Lotte World one time but the bullets are damned expensive."

Hunting on the Daeyoo property is expensive. Although I cannot remember the exact rates when I was there three years ago, their pricing scheme was enough to make me shrug with great cynicism. The shotguns they provide are beat-up, nicked, scratched, and crappy. You are "guided" with some dude along with some spastic looking pointers. For myself, that is not cool. I've hunted my whole life and don't need my hand held. The whole arrangement down there is for Japanese tourists or curious Koreans that want to play hunting for a day.

Rapier is very correct with this statement:
"The average macho man who just wants to kill something is an idiot...however, many such people actually start to appreciate what they are hunting and thereafter become enthusiastic conservationists."

The comment posted by coolsage is banal and retarded:
"So, as a vistor in this land, you think that you can feel free to shoot down any migratory bird that appears in your general direction? Do you have any sense of the fragile state of the wild bird population in this country?"

Actually it is not that easy. First you must get a shotgun in a country where firearms are strictly regulated and then you must get a license, and that would be in Korean. Also, the game of choice are ring-necked pheasants. They are not migratory. Also, most ethical hunters have a much higher sense of the state of wild bird populations than most arm chair environmentalists.

Bobster's comments of tough guy tiger hunting and macho b.s. simply shows how ignorant he is about wildlife and the nature of hunting and the issues that surround it.

After all that has been said:

Give hunting in Korea a pass. It's simply not worth it. The wildlife conservation policies are primitive and poaching is rampant. If you're a hunter with solid ethics and honor, you'll be more interested in setting the firearm down and looking to figure out ways to help Korean wildlife. If you're from Canada/USA--hunt there because wildlife regulations are very strict and well-regulated and there are armies of wildlife biologists that are constantly monitoring the populations of game animals.

[The Bobster]

[W.T.Carl]

Read the previous post. I am sure that it cost tons of won to do any shooting in Korea. That is unless you are an AFK member, which I was when I did my hunting in the ROK.

And as for having a decent job, why don't you and others of your ilk go back to Canada and starve. I'm sure that you can get a suitable job in the fast food industry.

[burnin rubber]

W.T.,
Don't let that dud get you. Most people who condemn hunting are the types who have never done it. A lot of people think that it's just a bunch of redneck assholes going out popping off rounds, but actually it's different.

[The Bobster]

[kermo]

[W.T.Carl]

Everything I shoot, with the exception of fox and coyotes, I eat. I would never hunt anything that it endangered. Nor would I hunt for a mere trophy.

[rapier]

[W.T.Carl]

You see the Korea of today. I see the Korea of today and remember the Korea of the 1970's. Immmature forrest? Hardly. When Park Chung Hee took over, he issued an order that prohibited the cutting of ANY trees. South Korea is reforrested and 30 years is more than long enough to grow a "mature" woodland. I will admit there is serious damage to a place like the Han River Valley, and other places, but these are not all of Korea.

[Pligganease]

I'm from the southern U.S., and before anything terrible is said about our affinity for firearms let me say this...

Most hunters, real hunters, that is, have an unspoken rule that basically states, "Don't shoot anything that you can't eat or make into clothing."

People that kill things they can't use have no respect for the hunt or the prey. They basically enjoy using a gun to say, "Hey, I'm more civilized than that (Insert animal name here).

The same rule generally applies to fishing, as well. I've killed many animals, and killed many birds. But, I only killed edible game and fowl (i.e. quail, turkeys, ducks, deer, turtle, frogs, squirrel, etc.).

I wouldn't enjoy shooting something that I couldn't cook afterwards...

[coolsage]