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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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 Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:38 am Post subject: Is shoplifting so serious? |
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I wonder if shoplifting is so serious here, or if the shops are wayyyyyyyyy overprotective.
I was at E-Mart the other day buying a gift bag. It was 750 won, and it had an electronic tag on it. I thought those things were only for expensive products. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:33 am Post subject: Re: Is shoplifting so serious? |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
I wonder if shoplifting is so serious here, or if the shops are wayyyyyyyyy overprotective.
I was at E-Mart the other day buying a gift bag. It was 750 won, and it had an electronic tag on it. I thought those things were only for expensive products. |
If your boss hands you a fat sack of sens-o-tags and tells you to tag everything, do you use your judgment? NO! You tag everything. Or else you get "Am I going mad, or did the word *THINK* escape your lips? I don't pay you to think, you hippopotamic land mass!" or "Think? I don't give you enough information to THINK. You do what you're TOLD, that's what you do!"
Find something less pedantic to worry about. |
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Arthur Dent
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
Location: Kochu whirld
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| I'd say quite the opposite. You often see stands in the streets, subways and whatnot filled with goodies that anyone could grab and run off with. Sometimes they are even unattended for a minute. I'd say shoplifting is quite rare here or people would be hiding everything and watching over you with hawk eyes, ala modern commy UK. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| I can't say I've ever had anyone suspect me of shoplifting, and sometimes I do bring things into corner stores that look like they could've been bought there. It seems more to me like Korean shopkeepers have no shoplifting radar whatsoever. |
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i4NI
Joined: 17 May 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| If remember right, the Gyobo book store near downtown has the security scanner for the foreign books section only lol |
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Mr-Dokdo
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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| No; help yourself. |
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pidgin
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I can't say I've ever had anyone suspect me of shoplifting, and sometimes I do bring things into corner stores that look like they could've been bought there. It seems more to me like Korean shopkeepers have no shoplifting radar whatsoever. |
yes. sometimes I am shocked by the potential. Oooohhh...to be a thief!
It'd be too easy here,....but then to be caught (maybe because of the ease itself) it seems like it'd be a huge shame on you.
PS: CCTV is everywhere!!  |
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Ultimo Hombre
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
Location: BEER STORE
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| If you're gonna steal something it had better be worth the risk. Most shit in this country that is accessible to theft is garbage anyway. |
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NoExplode
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| Ultimo Hombre wrote: |
| Most shit in this country that is accessible to theft is garbage anyway. |
Same could be said with shit they lock up.  |
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