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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:51 am Post subject: Parents Help Get Car Seat Plan Dropped in Korea |
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Car seat requirement in Korea is short-lived
"I heard it is good to use a car seat and actually I do have one, but I don't use it because he behaves well in the car. My friends also don't use one because it is difficult to set up and the car seat takes a lot of space," she said.
On June 1, the government did just that. New transportation laws required children under the age of 6 to use a car seat with the seat belt on. Failure to do so meant a fine of 30,000 won ($31), the National Police Agency announced. Parents complained and the next day, the police agency dropped the plan.
"We don't have to do what foreigners do in their countries. We have our own way to take care of babies," another posting at the agency's Web site said.... South Korea has the highest rate of children under 14 years old killed in traffic accidents among the OECD nations.
by Kim Soe-jung, JoongAng Daily (August 07, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200608/06/200608062231105209900090409041.html |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| This post cannot be topped. These people are morons. It's official. Apologists, you have the floor. I can't wait to hear your "cultural relativity" take. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:13 am Post subject: |
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I have three children under 6 years and live with a disabled parent. Three car seats would not fit in our car, and should we have to use public transportation not to pay fines?" one posting on the Web site of the police agency read.
Love how they take a totally unverifiable source, someone posting on a website, even though it sounds like a one in a million long-shot. 3 kids under 6??? In Korea? Are they Korean mormons? Geez, I'm sure the government would buy them a mini-van for just popping out so many kids to help the economy. Way to go baby-factory ajuma! |
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:17 am Post subject: Re: Parents Help Get Car Seat Plan Dropped in Korea |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
| "We don't have to do what foreigners do in their countries. We have our own way to take care of babies," another posting at the agency's Web site said.... South Korea has the highest rate of children under 14 years old killed in traffic accidents among the OECD nations. |
You would think that would be an incentive to have the law, but I guess being different from the evil West is more important than the safety of their future caregivers. Short-sighted dumbasses.  |
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pdxsteve
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| Sweet gentle Jesus in a basket ... how could anyone protest using car seats? |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Ha! I saw this when I opened my paper this morning.
Now, let me get this straight. Car seats are too big and inconvenient to worry about. Most parents, however, will take great pains to ensure that their kids don't sleep with the fan on.
Seems everyone has their heads screwed on straight. What's the problem? |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I must admit, when I am on the bus, especially going to or from Seoul, and look down into cars, I tend to not only surprised but absolutely shocked at what is going on in cars traveling more than 60 kms an hour. |
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pskull
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
Location: Cleveland, OH
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: Parents Help Get Car Seat Plan Dropped in Korea |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
| South Korea has the highest rate of children under 14 years old killed in traffic accidents among the OECD nations. |
I think that's likely related to Korean driving habits. From what I recall, it seemed that traffic laws were actually more like "guidelines", and therefore optional. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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Yep. Evil cultural imperialists telling the virtous Koreans what to do.
I mentioned this in another thread about children being killed by traffic accidents. The police don't even know that drivers have to slow down in school zones. They did a survey a while ago and more than 50% didn't even know it was a law. This country has come a long ways in a lot of respects but it has a heck of a long way to go in others.  |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| reporter wrote: |
| More children in Korea are killed by vehicles ― in traffic accidents or on the street ― than in any other of the 29 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development....about four times the rate of Sweden, which had the lowest rate. |
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| In Sweden, more than 90 percent of drivers use car seats. |
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| According to an experiment by the Samsung Traffic Safety Research Institute in 2000, a 6-year-old child who wasn't using a car seat or a seat belt was injured in the head three times more severely than a child in a car seat. |
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| currently not many people understand why they have to use car seats |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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For a country desperate for children, with a negative birthrate and stubbornly resistant to immigration letting their children die so frequently when it is all so unneccesary can only be summed up as shooting oneself in the foot.
Sucks to be a child in this country I guess. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
For a country desperate for children, with a negative birthrate and stubbornly resistant to immigration letting their children die so frequently when it is all so unneccesary can only be summed up as shooting oneself in the foot.
Sucks to be a child in this country I guess. |
The hagwon industry alone makes it suck to be a child here  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| animalbirdfish wrote: |
Ha! I saw this when I opened my paper this morning.
Now, let me get this straight. Car seats are too big and inconvenient to worry about. Most parents, however, will take great pains to ensure that their kids don't sleep with the fan on.
Seems everyone has their heads screwed on straight. What's the problem? |
That about sums it up. I mean consider... in the west you look out your window, see your children on the sidewalk, see guys on motorcycles on the sidewalk buzzing them. You get on the blower with all three levels of government and get the damn motorcycles off the sidewalk before they kill or maim your child or someone else's. In Korea, they just look. Unless a foreigner is on the motorcycle and kills their child. If he's American or Japanese, sweet jesus. He's done for.
"We don't have to do what foreigners do in their countries. We have our own way to take care of babies," another posting at the agency's Web site said.
A SNU professor will no doubt quickly come forward with a study that says kimchi protects children from blunt force trauma. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Parents Help Get Car Seat Plan Dropped in Korea |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
Car seat requirement in Korea is short-lived
"I heard it is good to use a car seat and actually I do have one, but I don't use it because he behaves well in the car. My friends also don't use one because it is difficult to set up and the car seat takes a lot of space," she said.
On June 1, the government did just that. New transportation laws required children under the age of 6 to use a car seat with the seat belt on. Failure to do so meant a fine of 30,000 won ($31), the National Police Agency announced. Parents complained and the next day, the police agency dropped the plan.
"We don't have to do what foreigners do in their countries. We have our own way to take care of babies," another posting at the agency's Web site said.... South Korea has the highest rate of children under 14 years old killed in traffic accidents among the OECD nations.
by Kim Soe-jung, JoongAng Daily (August 07, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200608/06/200608062231105209900090409041.html |
I'm speechless.  |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| It is effective population control! Let them learn the hard way I say... |
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