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Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

Off topic-sorry

Hey, stalinsdad, this is the first I've heard of these missing kids, can you pull an RR and post a news link- or perhaps just explain it- this is really interesting in a morbid way.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I think you handled it just right. You stopped the abuse. You didn't put yourself into the problem.

You are probably misinterpreting your boss's reaction, though.

stalinsdad · Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Location: Jeonju

I'm limited in time but here is one link.
I'm not sure now but a while ago McDonalds also had pictures of missing kids.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200410/31/200410311702346709900091009112.html

I'm sure this is the tip of a very large iceberg!!!

If you do the math 100????kids missing per year 50% found rate, over 10 years=500 kids

Also the missing programme on I think a Saturday night!

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

thanks mate,

stalinsdad · Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Location: Jeonju

http://www.korea.net/News/News/newsView.asp?serial_no=20050429017

ulsanchris · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: take a wild guess

police can't do much. Unless if the women wants to press charges. Its the same as back home.

bigverne · Joined: 12 May 2004

"I know plenty of people and can think of plenty of circumstances where someone deserves to have the crap kicked out of them."

Indeed. And I fail to see how the gender of the person being beaten makes it any more unnacceptable. People say that it is always wrong to beat a woman, presumably because women are physically weaker than men. Surely, then it is also wrong to beat up small, weedy men, even when provoked.

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

In Canada, police can press charges and usually do, whether or not the spouse wants them to or not. The problem is getting the spouse and witnesses to give statements and testifying.

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

Any neanderthal that thinks it is acceptable to beat someone unconcious with an umbrella is f*cked in the head. What the hell is wrong with you people? Violence is never the answer and violence against women is a serious problem around the world. It is also a HUGE problem in Korea.
Honestly, words fail me how insensitive some of the comments have been. How anyone can defend cowards like that is beyond me.
Trevor Collins and bigverne, you two clowns need to get a life and take some sensitivity training. As well, f*cking grow up.

pollyplummer · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Location: McMinnvillve, Oregon

Your avatar looks like the asian version of Richard Gere!! Very Happy

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

I had a friend in university who has a German Canadian father and a Japanese Canadian mother and is the spitting image of Richard Gere.

bigverne · Joined: 12 May 2004

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Blame it on the kimchi. Koreans in general have a hard time reigning themselves in when it comes to emotion. Anyone who has been here longer than a week can see that. If you're teaching at a hagwon and you see a kid burst into tears because he's dropped his eraser on the floor, you know trouble is probably brewing in the future.

As much as I detest the West's reactionary, get-in-touch-with-your-feelings/treating kids as though they're a volatile danger (and please don't kill me) mumbo-jumbo, it's perhaps a little effective, and could be useful for Korean children.

Thankfully there are no guns. Jesus, imagine if there were.

Sparkles*_*

trevorcollins · Joined: 02 Jul 2004