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[joltaxt]

I was at the bank today sitting down with my friend and we were chatting and waiting in line. I was doing most of the talking and telling her about my adventures over the weekend. Then all of a sudden a middle-aged man on a phone turns around and says something in Korean. I didn't even notice him as my friend's eyes were looking up at him, only then did I turn and see some angry Korean dude staring at me. He then starts scolding me (in pretty good English) and asking a barrage of personal questions:

"THIS IS A PUBLIC PLACE!"
"YOU ARE TOO LOUD!"
"WHY ARE YOU IN THIS BANK?"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN KOREA?"

As he's continuing his rant/pseudo-interrogation in the bank office I'm just sitting there with a confused look on my face. What is up this guy's ass? He must have been jealous because his weekend sucked and mine was awesome. Having heard enough of his [Mod Edit] he asks me another personal question and the following ensues:

Korean [Mod Edit] : "WHAT TYPE OF VISA DO YOU HAVE?"
*looking up at him*
Me: "NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!"

Bank gets dead silent.

His face gets even more pissed off than it was before. Customers and staff are now all staring at the three of us now as it looks like [Mod Edit] is about to go down. He then says the last thing I was expecting as he pulls out his wallet:

"I'M AN OFFICER!"

He shows me his badge. He's an undercover cop. I figure at this point this is a battle I can't win, so I reluctantly show him my passport. He scrutinizes it like a virgin during his first time and hands it back to me. Still on his power trip, he then spends the next five minutes lecturing me on how foreigners come to Korea to make trouble, and how I'm not a trouble-maker but they do. And how they forge degrees, and how I don't do it but they do. And how he's sorry to have hurt me to which I immediately reply "oh you didn't hurt me." After awhile I just start to ignore his lecturing and go back to talking with my friend about my awesome weekend.

ROFL @ the cops here trying to wreck on my good time in Korea because their lives suck.

I made a thread not too far back about how much fun I'm having here. This doesn't change anything. Why? I've firmly believed that there are [Mod Edit] cops everywhere. Korea is no different.

I don't know what the moral of the story is. I'm going to be just as loud the next time I go back into that bank. Unless there is some law against speaking at your normal volume at banks I'm unaware of

[cdninkorea]

It probably wouldn't do any good, but it's too bad you didn't get his badge number to make a formal complaint. IMO, police officers should be professional, which means keeping their temper in check.

[Mr. Pink]

LOL I doubt he could have arrested you without cause.

I had an incident where a cop was trying to get all "tough guy" on me. I asked to see his ID before answering any of his questions. I scrutinized it for a minute or so, passed my ARC to him and when he saw the F2 he passed it back and walked away.

I wasn't doing anything to make myself a nuisance either.

Some cops just love busting foreigner's balls. (Hope that expression isn't against the TOS...)

Don't sweat it. Hopefully those hard line cops are catching the bad/illegal foreigners and not just annoying those of us legally entitled to being here.

[Forward Observer]

After you showed him your "legal visa" in your passport, you should have declared "loudly" that you nailed a uni girl over the weekend.

[mt01ap]

I was in that bank...in fact, I am that officer!!
YOU never answered my question!!! .... WHAT TYPE OF VISA DO YOU HAVE??

[joltaxt]

[Gnawbert]

I'm sorry you ran into a real jerk of a cop. Like the other poster mentioned, it might have been funny if you jotted down his badge number. I doubt I would have thought of that at the time.

I've been lucky. The only time I've dealt with cops here in Korea was when some friends and I were, admittedly, being asses and playing guitar outside a 7/11 at 2am to some foreigners and random drunk adjosshis that that were digging the tunes. Someone called the cops (as they should have) and the local patrolman came over, asked us very politely to please keep it down, and then sat in the car to make sure we complied. Then they waved us off with a smile and sped off to somewhere else.

[nautilus]

[Zulethe]

I believe everything the liar - um - OP said

[djsmnc]

[Senior]

[PatrickGHBusan]

Come on the OPs story is true. How can you doubt it in an anonymous online forum?

Shame on you two for doubting the veracity of his tale of woe and angst......

He got loud with a cop in a bank...he is a hero to the foreign community. His post was Proust like in prose and style. Gems of litterature that show him to be the mature and intelligent victim of a brutal and repressed Korean cop. The story is factual and shows both sides objectively. The cop has his good and bad sides...and the OP is shown as someone who had his share of the blame..oh wait...

[RyanInKorea]

This one time in Korea... I hit a naked guy's arse with a towel!

Ryan

[ChilgokBlackHole]

I don't believe this story is true in the slightest. I would have let him call his uniforms. Off-duty cop != undercover.

[curiousaboutkorea]

I didn't know the police enforced immigration.