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gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

Cat is pretty popular in Vietnam. Don't order the 'thit meo'.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

Ks believe the Chinese eat babies. Shocked

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Did anyone mention this sounds a lot like the kidney urban legend?

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp

Taxis are certainly dangerous. You hear stories from time to time of people getting into taxis in, say, Thailand and being robbed and murdered.

The story does have hallmarks of the classic urban legend: something horrible happens to a young woman and themes of body invasion/violation.

Why is the man getting out first? Don't Korean men enter the taxi first? On exit, woman gets out first. Man pays. No? And why go to the trouble of the organ harvesting? Why not just kill and rob the couple? They're tourists and no doubt loaded with money, a digital camera, etc.

Destroyer · Joined: 11 Dec 2005

OP-

I heard this same exact story over the weekend from my wife's cousin. He read it in the "News." The interesting thing is that his old harmonime and mother had already heard the story years ago; filled in most of the details even.

= Urban Myth

Boodleheimer · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject:

Troll_Bait · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

A fellow teacher had an interesting class in which a student insisted -insisted!- that Americans eat live monkeys' brains (like in that Indiana Jones movie Laughing

).

rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

What a coincidence, I had this discussion with my students last night and they claimed that you cannot eat cats in Korea.

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

[quote="SuperFly"]So then later my friend tells me that he was in China and heard a story where a guy was driving his car and had his window rolled down with his arm on the window rest. He was wearing a rolex. Someone chopped off his arm just for the rolex! quote]

This story is a load of beeeep! Why? Well, how would anybody know that the guy driving the car is wearing a REAL Rolex? They have so many fakes ones there that look real. Your friend is putting you on.

Hyalucent · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: British North America

One of the recent accustations regarding the organ harvesting of prisoners had to do with followers of Falun Gong. Because of their pure lifestyle, they were apparently "in demand" by rich Chinese needing transplants.

As I type this I am watching "Kundun" about the Chinese takeover of Tibet. It only reinforces my thought that I should never underestimate what the Chinese may be capable of.

EFLtrainer · Joined: 04 May 2005

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but along those lines, check out what the CASS, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, I believe, has to say in their most recent publications from the Notheast Project about ancient Korean history and the land it encompassed. Rather, the Korean reaction:

Hmmm.... better hope reunification comes before collapse...

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200609/kt2006091217224911990.htm

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200609/kt2006091317333510440.htm

http://search.hankooki.com/times/times_view.php?term=palhae++&path=hankooki3/times/lpage/nation/200609/kt2006091417303511990.htm&media=kt

http://search.hankooki.com/times/times_view.php?term=cass++&path=hankooki3/times/lpage/nation/200609/kt2006090819195311990.htm&media=kt

SirFink · Joined: 05 Mar 2006

I asked a Korean woman once why she's never traveled outside of Korea. "China, for example, is close and would be an interesting place to visit, wouldn't it?" Her: "oh, but I read they kidnap you and harvest your organs there!"