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[saharzie]

Here we go again...
First of all, this was not journalism. It was a travelogue based on my experiences at the time. I did not exagerate my own experiences in Korea and everything that I witnessed did take place.
I have also worked as a news journalist and I know how to write in that style. What I wrote then was not written in a newsy style, but I never pretended to be writing journalism.
Writing that stuff had a cathartic effect for me and instead of hitting the bottle after a hard day/week I would write all my experiences down instead.
Rapier I agree with what you wrote about Ireland, I am no fan of the place, it is a small minded, bigoted country with some serious issues. However I am in Korea now, not Ireland so I am writing about Korea. Also one of the things that drove me to write what I did was the juvenile attitude of the Koreans who I interacted with as well as the English language media who paint an entirely different picture to the Korea I experienced.
These days my life is far more in order and I do not have to put up with living in dodgy areas and being a teacher (which I hated).
I am not bitter, and maybe getting all that stuff on paper has helped me stay that way.

Dutchman,
A beep in a car trying to ram my taxi of the road was more than a traffic violation, and the circumstances in which the rape occured ensured I could do nothing.
However the main bonus of this thread is that I was quoted by Real Reality

[dutchman]

[Pyongshin Sangja]