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[SeoulnPepe]

Hi:

I couldn't find the thread where some women were looking for pepper spray. So I've posted this new one. I recall some people said it couldn't be found in Korea, but trust me it can be found.

Here's the link for Gmarket's listings of Pepper Spray.

http://www.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_search/search_total.asp?selecturl=total&SearchClassFormWord=goodsSearch&keyword=%C8%A3%BD%C5%BF%EB+%BD%BA%C7%C1%B7%B9%C0%CC

I hope some of you ladies will feel safer walking at night.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Isn't it illegal here?

I guess the 'I want to sex you!' chorus of high school boys had better really watch out now!

[SeoulnPepe]

They're perfectly legal, so long as you use them in self-defence.

Gmarket wouldn't be selling them if it they were illegal. You can also find them on auction, and a few other online shops. I posted Gmarket's lists, because Gmarket is often cheaper than its competitors.

I think what is illegal is Bear grade mace. That stuff could easily send you to the hospital. Trust me on that one (I had an incident with myself a few years ago with Bear grade mace).

[Newbie]

[crazylemongirl]

you do realize that these sort of weapons often get used by agressors against their victims!

[CBP]

Tonight I put Mace on my shopping list, and then I came here and found this thread. I'm moving to Korea soon. I'm not sure airlines will allow Mace on the plane (in my checked luggage, that is). Cheers.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[diver]

[SeoulnPepe]

[SeoulnPepe]

As for my Bear grade Mace incident, well, let's just say there were no bears involved...

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[JongnoGuru]

YSB, why not stop being so nasty, esp. with the "chorus of high school boys". Western women face different threats here than you or I do, and different ones than Korean women do. If my sister were in Korea, she could have an arsenal of weapons and I'd still jump every time the phone rang.

[bluelake]

Reminds me of an incident many, many years ago (thirteen or fourteen). My wife has owned and operated an institute for about the last seventeen years. Years before that, I bought her a can of mace (in a leather keychain holster) and she kept it in her desk drawer in the institute. One day, while she was teaching class, I was fishing through the drawers looking for something; somehow, the "trigger" pushed up against something and discharged the spray straight up in the air. The mist carried around the institute really quickly and there was a cacophony of coughs all around. I ran around opening up windows and getting glasses of water for students.

[cellphone]

[Beej]

I like to use pepper spray in my Korean cooking to give it that little extra zing.