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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
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| The cart should have went over in seconds. At one point I thought they were trying to put it on that flatbed truck |
I watched til 12 minutes and ten of them still hadn't managed to knock it over.
And where was the gratuitous violence? You see worse trying to board a subway train every morning. |
I think maybe they were trying to get the owners of the food stand to just give up without actually knocking over their stand. This is Korea after all and they do allow their own some leeway. That has to be the reason. Otherwise, hired muscle in this country is seriously in need of exercise. If it were America, the food stand would be dust and the owners would be worried about dropping the soap in the shower. |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Stain wrote: |
| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| Troglodyte wrote: |
| The cart should have went over in seconds. At one point I thought they were trying to put it on that flatbed truck |
I watched til 12 minutes and ten of them still hadn't managed to knock it over.
And where was the gratuitous violence? You see worse trying to board a subway train every morning. |
I think maybe they were trying to get the owners of the food stand to just give up without actually knocking over their stand. This is Korea after all and they do allow their own some leeway. That has to be the reason. Otherwise, hired muscle in this country is seriously in need of exercise. If it were America, the food stand would be dust and the owners would be worried about dropping the soap in the shower. |
If it were America the cart owner would have pulled out a hand gun and told these gangsters to F off. Then the cops would have shot the cart owner 100 times just be sure they got him. The 200 witnesses recording the event on their phones would be in a race to upload it to the internet. |
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Engrish Mufffin
Joined: 09 Jun 2013
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Stan Rogers wrote: |
If it were America the cart owner would have pulled out a hand gun and told these gangsters to F off. Then the cops would have shot the cart owner 100 times just be sure they got him. The 200 witnesses recording the event on their phones would be in a race to upload it to the internet. |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| This is why citizens should have guns. These incidences always drag on and on. A gun or two and it would of all been over in an instant. |
Korean citizens with guns would be a game changer. Not only would drunk Koreans get shot, we'd get shot too. The soju and drugs are getting more extreme where it's turning out to be the world's heaviest drinker. This newer soju with Chicago in red letters is higher grade quality of alcohol that you can party and go crazy with. Not like the soju of 4 years ago where the new stuff tastes much cleaner and gets you intoxicated like a vodka instead of just warming you up like the old soju did.
The richy people in Gangnam don't want the old style food carts, they the most top end real restaurants for steak, pizza, burgers, and foreign cuisines so they no longer want stinky traditional cheap food like deokbawkee, boendeggi, noodles on a skewer, and kimchi with little yellow radishes. They also don't want any 3rd world looking stuff in stinky streets reminding them of some impoverished past of war and aJapanese occupation. Gangnam got to go 1st world like London, Paris, and New York where the only food vendors will be authorized by the wealthy. Probably hot dog stands and non-Korean food varieties. |
Drunk much? |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| The food carts take up way too much space on already small sidewalks. |
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wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| The food carts take up way too much space on already small sidewalks. |
i'd say the huge potted plants are a worse offender. apparently hanging plants never occurred to the city planners so enormous pots in the sidewalk of an already too-congested area was their answer. |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| Seoul is so crowded. The city really needs to widen the streets and sidewalks in so many places. |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| The food carts take up way too much space on already small sidewalks. |
Those carts in Itaewon take up too much space, too. How many King Sejong panties and Big Bang socks do people need, anyway? |
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maximmm
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you ever wondered just how many gangsters it takes to topple a food stall? Because I have and this answers this question beautifully. Thanks! |
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coralreefer_1
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| OK, so i may have missed in in the Korean news...but was this some coordinated effort to rid those streets of streetcarts (plural), and others were targeted and treated in a similar fashion. or was this just an issue with a single vendor as pictures in the video? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| noodles on a skewer, and kimchi with little yellow radishes. |
By the way, that's nasty fish cake, not noodles, on a skewer. And the kimchi and crap is a freebie side dish if at its there at all. |
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rainman3277
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| noodles on a skewer, and kimchi with little yellow radishes. |
By the way, that's nasty fish cake, not noodles, on a skewer. |
Wow, You couldn't have provided a more perfect example of being a know it all than this. Picking out a fact so insignificant to the point he was making, just so you can correct him. Thanks for proving my point so promptly and succinctly. Careful how you pronounce 'tomato' around this guy fellas. |
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alongway
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| noodles on a skewer, and kimchi with little yellow radishes. |
By the way, that's nasty fish cake, not noodles, on a skewer. |
Wow, You couldn't have provided a more perfect example of being a know it all than this. Picking out a fact so insignificant to the point he was making, just so you can correct him. Thanks for proving my point so promptly and succinctly. Careful how you pronounce 'tomato' around this guy fellas. |
I'd be more concerned about how I say it around you, at least he was polite. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:48 am Post subject: |
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| I like the food vendors. I don't get excited about permits and inspections. If the food looks and smells good, I try some. If I like it, I come back. Neither empathy with nor sympathy for "legitimate businesses" with outrageous overhead and prices to match. |
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Rockhard
Joined: 11 Dec 2013
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| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
| I like the food vendors. I don't get excited about permits and inspections. If the food looks and smells good, I try some. If I like it, I come back. Neither empathy with nor sympathy for "legitimate businesses" with outrageous overhead and prices to match. |
Ignoring your poor grammar, you seem to also lack an understanding of economics. The vendors aren't avoiding overhead they are shifting the burden onto the public. In economics we call this the free rider problem. Taxes paid for that sidewalk, that road, the electric utilities and so on and then a vendor comes by, takes advantage of that infrastructure, and pays nothing. Who's really paying? The tax payer. We are subsidizing those vendors whereas with the stores the cost of the infrastructure is included in the price of the goods.
You're welcome. |
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