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[Sucker]

I have been in Korea for over a year and a half and have spent most of that time in Seoul, yet I have never seen anything like this before.

I�ve had my mother and sister here over the past two weeks and on Saturday night we were sitting outside a coffee shop next to Gangnam station. My girlfriend was there also.

It was about 9pm and one of the clothing stores had hired (I assume) about 10 people to swing dance (think that is what you call it) outside their display window. They were really good and quite a crowd had gathered. Anyway, they had just finished and the crowd was still kind of hanging around but slowly taking off. A group of boys came up. Looked like they were older than university students, but not by much, very well dressed (as in new ad clean clothes) in that FUBU style street gear that you mostly only ever see in music videos. Several of them had weird hairstyles, kind of looked like manga characters, not really like punks or gangmembers. I honestly didn�t think much about them they seemed to purposefully stop in the open area near where the dancers had been (remember there is a large crowd of people still here at this point).

One of the �boys� was obviously being teased or razzed by the others. They were laughing at him and slapping him on the back kind of thing. Then they made him take off his shoes � it seemed to me like they were guilt tripping him into taking them off. I thought that they would run off with them or something. He then sat down cross-legged on the ground. Now he did all of this without being (visibly forced) it looked to me as though it was a routine or ritual and he had either seen it or been through it before.

Then they (maybe 15 guys) started to kick him. Hard. They attacked him. Stomach. Head. Face. 15 guys wearing shoes were really laying into him.

He quickly fell over and then the guys did something that I have only ever seen in movies. They started to stamp on him, bringing their heels down on him with a force that was frightening.

After he fell over my mother (!) said someone should do something so I went to call the police on my mobile. Didn�t know the number so tried to get it out of y girlfriend (turns out its 119) but she was frozen, as were the 100 or so people that were just watching this go on (they were obviously shocked and horrified though).

At this point the gang realized that they had gone too far. A few of them ran off and a few started to try and revive the guy on the ground. It was really sickening seeing these guys who had seemed to be trying to kill him turn around and be then be so concerned asking him if he was OK.

After a few minutes he picked himself up (with help from his �friends�) and waved his hat to the crowd, as if in victory. He then was carried/limped away.

True story. Gangnam station exit 7, the Nescafe coffee shop plastic tables and chairs outside. Next to Eigenpost (the clothing store).

[Seoultrader]

Oh well...

The only sad thing is that they didn't go through with it all the way. One less moron in the human gene pool. Cry me a river.

For some reason I'm reminded of something George Carlin once said - why do people always put such importance on "the children"? Children are no different than the rest of humanity. Some are smart, but there are A LOT of dumb ones out there bound for failure.

[Wishmaster]

Yeah, SeoulTraitor, but suppose that it were one of your children that was being stomped into oblivion...having his head smashed against the concrete...taking several violent kicks to the stomach. Or, since you detest children so much, how about YOU being attacked by a mauling group.

[Seoultrader]

I'm too much of a sweetie to be attacked.

(and by the way, I don't "detest" kids - I just don't feel sorry for dumb ones, not to mention that the "kid' in the aforementioned case was of college age and apparently voluntarily went through this hazing ritual...natural selection, my friend, natural selection.)

Any child of mine would be pure genius of course (unless you were the mother, babycakes)

[Sucker]

Not sure if the definition of �children� is quite apt. Although I could not pinpoint there age, most of them would have been as old or older than me. Plus I should point out that even though he was attacked, he allowed it to happen (or at least he did not visibly resist).

[qwunk89]

i must have just missed that, i saw all those swing dancers on my way to kangnam station. It was Sunday night right? Look what you miss when u don't stick around to see the show-

[gang ah jee]

i saw some kid getting his beans in the lesbian park in shinchon the other month.

Turns out it was birthday hazing. After stomping him for a while his buddies picked him up, dusted him off and took him off to get leathered.

when are all your birthdays, by the way?

[waterbaby]