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[lulu144]

okay.... so I've read some pretty messed up things here on daves... and i'm sure this isn't the craziest... but it really p#$%ed me off.
So a few days ago i was taking a cab to the bus terminal. The taxi driver proceeded to pick someone else up and go completely out of their way to the ktx station and that person paid the fare as it read on the meter. Next he continued to take me to the bus terminal. When I got there i though iw ould only have to pay the fare after we dropped the other person off... oh no.... not the case. I had to pay the full fare.... which included going out of my way for the other person... wtf! I was pissed. sure it was maybe only 2000 won... but it's the concept of the whole thing. I tried to argue with the cabbie but it was of no consequence. so i paid and left the cab being more angry at korea than usual.....

So I'd been having kind of a crappy week and then when i got back to school on monday i think they kind of noticed that something was different and I 'looked different' etc. Well I told my co teacher ( I don't know why I usually don't like to share things with her) about it and how I'm tired of generally being taken advantage of as a foreigner.

Later she came up to me and said she was talking with the pricipal and he had said that it is the 'rule' in Korea that if a cabbie picks up someone else and drives them god knows where... you MUST pay the FULL fare.... wtf.... the rule?? uhhh yeah right.... nice justification for me being taken advantage of.... like isn't this illegal>? and if not it should be. If it is the rule then cabs would do it all the time etc etc... what a joke... whatever Korea

[Yesterday]

[ChuckECheese]

That's crock of *beep* OP. You shouldn't even have to pay if you were Korean. The driver has taken advantage of you because you're foreigner.

You should have taken the driver's name and his license number posted near the taxi meter and ask your K-friend to report him for illegal activity.

Next time, if the taxi driver decides to pick up someone else along your route, don't argue with him or bother paying him, but just get off the taxi and get another taxi to get to where you're going. This way you'll end up paying less.

[seoulkitchen]

[Hyeon Een]

I've shared many cabs in this manner but I don't think I've ever felt ripped off. Usually the driver knocks a couple of hundred won off the price if he's gone out of the way for the other person.

[Qinella]

Haha that is r3diculous.

But of course you have to pay the full fare. What do you think is the point of him picking up a second person? Community service? Only problem was making you pay extra.

[Juregen]

What are you guys talking about?

Even Koreans pay the Taxi Double, especially during peek-times.

If a cab goes in the s ame direction for the same people they all pay the full price.

YEs it is illegal for a taxi to do so because they "earn" an unjust margin, but if you are really in ned of a cab, and this cab is going that way, you are happy to pay that price.

although illegal, it is pretty widespread use. Did it myself a couple a times and is a great way of talking to people you would never ever meet anyway else.

Normally these cabs do NOT take foreigners as extras, unless you explain to them you know the system.

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[Juregen]

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