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Gollywog · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Debussy's brain

If you get the runs or vomit after eating at a Korean restaurant or eating food purchased at a Korean food store, or the food tastes like it has unusual chemicals or pesticides in it, where should you report this so the Korean government can do an epidemiological investigation?

Koreans do report cases of food poisoning to the government, don't they?

Prediction: Posters will turn this thread into an attack on the U.S. within three posts.

Young FRANKenstein

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

You might be lying in an attempt to slander the good name of an entrepreneur. Rolling Eyes

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:48 am Post subject:

laserprinter · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea

i get the runs from everything, i'll report kimchi

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

If you get the runs or vomit after reading one of the OP's posts, do you report it?

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

When you think about it.....Granny Korean puts cabbage in pots outside with a lid on it in the hot sun and makes kimchi. These pots stay outside all year. Gathering up bacteria and fermenting. If you had a contest where a Korean and a foreigner were faced with a plateful of two day old roadkill who do you think would get the squirts?

laserprinter · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea

i took a picture of a tombstone 1 foot away from a garden in Gwangju, think about for a minute. the ladies that sell their veggies on the side of the road...

I_Am_The_Kiwi · Joined: 10 Jun 2008

theyll probably recommend you should eat some kimchi and just handle it...

SHANE02 · Joined: 04 Jun 2003

IlIlNine · Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo

Only a little better than your last troll, on account of a slight increase in subtlety.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

There is no food poisoning in Korea. They'll probably tell you it was because the restaurant was using US meat.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

I'll share my experience. I frequented a Subway Resturant in Seoul a few years ago and got pretty bad food poisoning. The best thing you can do is go to the doctor for treatment and avoid the place. I did complain to the Subway headquarters in the US though. At the time, I remember trying to find a government agency in Korea to complain to, but gave up.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject:

aka Dave · Joined: 02 May 2008 Location: Down by the river

There was a big mandu food poisoning epidemic a while back (I think it was frozen supermarket mandu). I don't recall if anyone died (it was in 2004 maybe?) but my co-workers and boss told me "Don't eat mandu!" I'm pretty sure there was a lot of media coverage.