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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 2:43 am Post subject: Porn Vendors Finding it Hard to Keep Things Up |
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Seun Sagga and Cheonggyecheo 8-ga, in Seoul's Jongno-gu, were known from the 1970s to the mid-90s as a shopping Mecca for porno. Yet the pornography market has been shrinking fast over the last four or five years, as the online market for illicit material grown with the rapid spread of Internet use in Korea.
"The fine for selling pornographic material is usually around W1 million," a police official said.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200312/200312110012.html |
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HardyandTiny
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 3:08 am Post subject: |
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I don't mind if you post news clips, but don't you think about the audience you're posting to? Even a little bit?
We can all do a news search on google.
What's the point?
No one is going to respond.
have fun and post as you like. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Is that fine appropriate? What about jail time? What is the fine for making a pornographic website? Doesn't Korea have some strict laws concerning online porn?
Also, if a place is known as the "shopping Mecca for porno", how does it survive? Where are the police? |
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:51 am Post subject: |
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I like this post because I'm byeon-tae.
I wanted to ask if the pornography they sell in those areas you mentioned is real pornography, not that fake soft porn crap at the video stores. I know real porn exists here as it's on Kazaa, and Daegu, sex city of Korea, they show real Korean porn at the yeogwans (also the massage girl business cards show nude women). |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| do you think the pun in the title was intended? |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| shawner88 wrote: |
| I like this post because I'm byeon-tae. |
Really? I say pervert as "Pyeon-tae". But thats just me. |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| do you think the pun in the title was intended? |
Sure it was! It remindes me of "More moms going down, to ensure grades go up!"
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0201/020106moms.html
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| lush72 wrote: |
| shawner88 wrote: |
| I like this post because I'm byeon-tae. |
Really? I say pervert as "Pyeon-tae". But thats just me. |
I hate to digress from the nitty gritty, but do you also say kalbi or galbi? |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| I�m a linguistic dinosaur, I know! When I first came here it was �Pusan? rather then �Busan? �Kalbi?rather then �Galbi? Shawner, your right, but I still speak using the old McCune system. I know that "ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, ㅈ" has been changed from "k, t, p, and ch" to "g, d, b, and j." and that "ㅅ" used to be written as "sh" and "s," depending on context. Now its written as "s" in all cases. OLD habits die hard! |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| You didn't answer my question. Is it real porn? |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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shawner88
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:41 am Post subject: |
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Next time do some undercover research and post the facts.  |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| lush72 wrote: |
| I�m a linguistic dinosaur, I know! When I first came here it was �Pusan? rather then �Busan? �Kalbi?rather then �Galbi? Shawner, your right, but I still speak using the old McCune system. I know that "ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅂ, ㅈ" has been changed from "k, t, p, and ch" to "g, d, b, and j." and that "ㅅ" used to be written as "sh" and "s," depending on context. Now its written as "s" in all cases. OLD habits die hard! |
I am old school too. Koreans thinking they know romanization better than foreigners is pretty freaking funny.
CHAMSHIL is NOT JAMSHIL...do they know how those ignorant foreigners who come here for the first time pronounce it JAM-SHIL, like a bottle of JAM.
KANGNAM IS NOT GANGNAM...GANG-NAM is how some ignorant foreigner would say it too...I went to gang-nam when i was in korea...oh was there a lot of gangs there?
I could go on, but when Koreans changed the spelling when most foreigners thought it was a bad idea, well IT IS A BAD IDEA. Why? Because they assume foreigners are going to read it "Korean style" instead of pronouncing it like they would read the word back home.
I remember I wrote an article to the Korea Herald at the time. I suggested Korea should just be like other countries that don't give a rats ass about romanization aka americanization of their words. Make foreigners spend an hour or two to learn how to read Korean  |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
| Also, if a place is known as the "shopping Mecca for porno", how does it survive? Where are the police? |
I think it is illegal in the same sense as prostitution. Come on, you know laws are not enforced in the same way as the West.
| Mr. Pink wrote: |
| I am old school too. Koreans thinking they know romanization better than foreigners is pretty freaking funny. |
I live in Seoul-si. An ignorant foreigner would say "Seoul, see". I completely agree the new system does not work. I think the new way to write vowels is ok, but the consonants are all wrong, especially not being able to have a way to write the "sh" sound. We would not understand many tourists who come here and try to read the signs. |
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