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[mindmetoo]

Every now and then I see some ajumma panhandling with a white cardboard box with a slot cut in the top. I'm pretty sure it's a different ajumma. Anyway, the other day I was waiting to cross at a light, outside the new Standard Chartered bank. This ajumma was going up to people waiting at the light and giving them a good whap to get their attention. Hitting or poking people with a sharp stick doesn't seem to me the best way to get people in a giving mood.

[steroidmaximus]

I had a Nepalese woman come into the office at the country school I work at asking for money for Nepalese orphans. . . she had all this documentation stating she was a legitimate charity, wrote my donation on a page with other donations, etc. Still kind of unusual to see a Nepalese woman in the boondocks, mind.

[seoulhiker]

I used to regularly bump into a guy and would give him my spare change. After a couple of times of doing this, he knew that I would give him change, and, next time that I tried to give him change, he refused -- he only wanted bills. Great attitude.

Apparently these people are simply panhandlers trying to pass themselves off as taking donations for charities. Yet, Koreans have caught on to the ruse: you'll notice that almost noone gives them any money. Thus, they have resorted to irritating the hell out of people in the hopes that it's worth 1,000 won to you to get them out of your face.

[Gord]

This woman was sliding on her ass down the car. Then when she got to a person, she was grabbing their pant legs and whining. This would go on for about ten seconds before she would finally let go, whine some more, and then move onto the next person.

Though she can walk. She got up to walk between cars. And it would seem that she eats well so she isn't starving.

Pardon the poor camera angel. I was trying to be all CIA and take a picture without being seen, so that meant taking the picture without being able to actually look to see what I was aiming at.

[mindmetoo]

[fusionbarnone]

Saw a news prog. on local Chinese television where a panhandler in long rubber pants was arrested. Lo and behold; he got up and walked when, the long arm of the law "touched" his shoulder.

[seoulhiker]

It's hard to tell who is more pathetic: those who pretend to collect for the disabled, or those who pretend to be disabled. Either way, it's stealing from the truly disabled.

[djsmnc]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

hehe-- reminds me of a blind panhandler I used to see from my apartment window in Mexico. He stood there, day after day, with dark sunglasses on and looking pathetic.

One day a hot senorita in a little skirt was crossing the road, and all the cars were honking their horns at her. I saw the "blind" man grinning and tracking her as she walked down the street! Busted..

Ken:>

[Alias]

The panhandling in Korea is nothing compared to what we see back in the West. Especially when it comes to young abled bodied males or "recreational panhandlers".

[pet lover]

Someone ever hits me trying to sell me something and I'm going to end up turning around and screaming and yelling until *I* look like the one with the mental problem. Might and might not hit back as well. Tit for tat unless it's some old guy grabbing my breasts again while I'm out walking the dogs. NOT going to return the favor and grab his little weewee as that would just teach him to grab at EVERY foreign woman who walks by. I'm still working on how I'm going to handle that one the next time it happens. I mean, he was OLD.....late 80s early 90s old with only two very yellow stick-like teeth in his mouth that I couldn't help staring at.

For the record, I was like that back in the States as well. Grew up with a very outspoken mother not afraid to let people know EXACTLY what she thinks of them. Though, I'm very demure if I'm hopelessly outnumbered.

[vlcupper]

Has anybody ever seen the old guy sitting on the sidewalk in Itaewon? He has a sign that says something about his not having enough money to visit his sick grandfather in Cheongju or something like that. This guy looks like he's in his 60s himself. No wonder his grandfather is sick, the guy must be pushing 150!

[mindmetoo]

[steroidmaximus]

I remember back home often seeing young, able bodied punks asking for money. . .tell em to get a job, and they threaten you with broken bottles.. . how nice. fucking losers

[Alias]