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Man Booked for Trying to Talk to Foreigners
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Troll_Bait



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:04 pm    Post subject: Man Booked for Trying to Talk to Foreigners Reply with quote

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/02/117_39161.html
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ruffie



Joined: 11 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have the foreigners been put in prison yet? Let's hope they got out of Dodge on the double.
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Css



Joined: 27 Sep 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good...and well done to the staff member.
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Bibbitybop



Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The man was booked for beating a 60 year old woman. But he still shouldn't have bothered the diners. Would you approach a banker and ask for a loan while he was eating dinner?
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GreenlightmeansGO



Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why was he trying to learn English from the Scots?? Twisted Evil
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Xuanzang



Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bibbitybop wrote:
The man was booked for beating a 60 year old woman. But he still shouldn't have bothered the diners. Would you approach a banker and ask for a loan while he was eating dinner?


Koreans would ask for loans even if he was taking a piss.
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in_seoul_2003



Joined: 24 Nov 2003

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"A 71-year-old man... was simply trying to ``learn English from the foreigners.''"

Because it's never too late to learn English.
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Xuanzang



Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm surprised they actually arrested him but he was probably released with an ajoshi warning.
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crusher_of_heads



Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's never too late for kimberly to sober up and stop acting like a horse's ass either.
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skeeterses



Joined: 25 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It sounds like he was arrested for trying to beat something out of the foreigners. Maybe when he gets out of jail he can say "Beat me up Scotty."
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NightSky



Joined: 19 Apr 2005

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

in_seoul_2003 wrote:
"A 71-year-old man... was simply trying to ``learn English from the foreigners.''"

Because it's never too late to learn English.


Hahaha...awesome new slogan for Korea. someone should make it a bumper sticker.

Korea: Because It's Never Too Late to Learn English!
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BrianInSuwon



Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Korea Times might want to change the headline to something more fitting. Drunk man arrested for beating up a restuarant worker.

A drunk man is walking down the street. He sees some foreigners in a restuarant. The restuarant worker doesn't want his/her customers harrassed by a drunk guy so s/he blocks his way. The drunk guy gets mad and attacks the restuarant worker.

If the drunk guy was running across the street to speak to the foreigners and was hit by a car, would the headline read Man Killed for Trying to Learn English ?
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Bingo



Joined: 22 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That headline is ridiculous. Rarely does a drunken ajoshi approach foreigners to "learn English". He's approaching them because he's an ajoshi and the foreigners are on his turf. He demands to be entertained. If the foreigners reused to pay any attention to him there would be trouble, and the Korean staff knew that. Kudos to them for directing the clown away from the table and charging him after the assault. (The very fact that he assaulted a restaurant worker shows the nature of "English conversation" the two Scottish guys would have been subjected to.

Now, imagine if they had two attractive Korean girls sitting with them. Imagine the English that ajoshi would try to practice.
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sjrm



Joined: 27 Jul 2005

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BrianInSuwon wrote:
The Korea Times

If the drunk guy was running across the street to speak to the foreigners and was hit by a car, would the headline read Man Killed for Trying to Learn English ?


And you know they'd find a way to blame the foreigners!
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antoniothegreat



Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Location: Yangpyeong

PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

statistically, they are probably on E2 visas, so by trying to learn from them, he is asking them to do something illegal as well.

i know this is a bit of a jump, but if i see two pretty girls, is it okay to go ask them for sex?
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