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[Alias]

What are some good urban legends being spread by Waygooks in Korea?

I heard the following one again the other night at a local bar.

"A girl is walking home late at night. A drunk Korean man comes up to her and begins to make strong advances towards her. She rejects his advances and tries to walk away. However, he grabs her and begins to pull her towards his apartment. She tries to fight him off and cries out for help. People begin to notice what is happening but she is unable to speak Korean and the man simply tells onlookers that she is his girlfriend and they are just having a fight. He forces her into his apartment and rapes her. "

I've heard this one quite a few times. Different variations but almost the same. Of course no one ever knows who this happened to but they heard it from a teacher who used to work with this teacher who had a firend...etc....

[matko]

I worked with a woman who was sexually assaulted by the cable guy.

Are you saying rapes against foreign women never happen in Korea?

I'm a little confused by what you are trying to say.

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[Guest]

Where is the difficulty in comprhending what the original author had to say ... read the topic and read the body and see if you can figure it out. This isn't a pathetic discussion about foreigners or rape or whether women are or aren't raped ... it's a discussion of scenario and 'urban legend' ... not using a great example, but understood here nonetheless

[Sucker]

I guess that this one is more common with those fresh off the boat or heard from family back home who don�t know too much about Korea:

Some foreigner goes to a restaurant to eat beef and gets dog instead (this is usually told on the assumption that dog is cheaper than beef, which it usually isn�t).

Then there is the one that I have read on this board twice � guy and girl are drinking late. As guy lives outside of Seoul/Busan/wherever he stays at the girl�s apartment to sleep on the floor (gentleman?). Sometime in the night he rolls over and makes eye contact with a Korean guy hiding under the girl�s bed.

[komtengi]

not sure if these are fact or fiction so Im putting them up here and maybe someone can clarify them for me.
Firstly, the story of a girl that comes up to Seoul from one of the smaller cities for St Patricks day, and gets a room at Hamilton Hotel with her friend. They go out drinking and get blind drunk. The next day her friend wakes up to find her friend dead in her bed, and has been really done over. So much so that there are two footprints imprinted on her chest.

Secondly, the story about a foreign guy having his apartment raided by police and during the raid was aparantly shot to death.

Thirdly, the American teacher who was stabbed to death by his Korean girlfriend in Hongdae one night last year.

Finally, the guy who had his apartment broken into while he was there and the attacker went at him with a kitchen knife, stabbing him numerous times.

[tsgarp]

Here are some classics.
The 100,000 won/hour private and the idea that after a few years anyone can get a job at a major corporation.
I also like the way so many people here have told me they knew a certain Mr. X who was deep into the mafia. Seems everyone here is connected except for me. Every bar owner, shady hagwon manager, and anyone in a black suit is supposed to be Jok Po or Yakuza, or in with the Russians. I hear this once a month, always from some Newbie (Canadians seem the most susceptible) who wants to impress me with how well he's managed to get on the "inside".

[dogbert]

[komtengi]

thanks for the info.... however, the incident of the guy getting shot. However many times I hear that story I cant believe it. Firstly Korean cops generally carry gas guns. Carrying a handgun in Korea is near impossible for anyone, police included.
Firing off a handgun, at a korean or foreigner would require a huge amount of paper work after the incident. And I would have thought killing an innocent foreigner would have caused an international incident.
This one still sounds a bit like a urban myth to me.

[the_beaver]

I know of one guy who was shot in Korea and I know personally another guy who was shot.

The first one, a few years back, was shot be the police and probably deserved to be shot (by the accounts of people who knew him he was a rod).

The second one, who I know personally, has no idea who shot him, but he was shot in the back by a small caliber gun on Hooker Hill.

[komtengi]

does anyone deserve to be shot??

[Alias]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

The guy who got shot in his own apartment has a website somewhere. He was a GI who returned to Korea to become a teacher, got drunk with his boss, his boss cut his hand open (somehow...) and bled all over the hall on his way out the door. Someone found the blood, thought someone had died, called the cops and they came in guns blazing. He has been trying to sue the Korean govt. for years. Good luck.

Never heard about the guy who got shot randomly on the hill.

There was definitely a girl who died St. Paddy's Day, 2001. Her "friend" was accused, she blamed some GI's. She has been acquitted but may be re-tried. They are/were from Pittsburgh.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03171/194416.stm

South Korea trials may not be over for Kenzi Snider

Student may be re-tried in death of Jamie Lynn Penich

Friday, June 20, 2003

By Milan Simonich, Post-Gazette Staff Writer


Snider, who was a student at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., and Penich met in March 2001 in an international studies program in Seoul.

They became friendly enough in a couple weeks to appear together in a number of photographs. They also socialized together on what turned out to be the last night of Penich's life.

After drinking and dancing with U.S. servicemen at a nightclub on St. Patrick's Day 2001, Snider helped Penich back to her hotel room.

FBI agents said Snider admitted during interrogations that she exploded in a fury after Penich made a sexual advance.

Then, by the prosecution's account, Snider kicked 20-year-old Penich to death. Penich's roommate, a woman from the Netherlands, said she slept through the violence.


The investigation into Penich's death initially seemed to focus on soldiers who had danced with the women at the nightclub. But more than 10 months later, from Feb. 4 to Feb. 6, 2002, Snider was interrogated by FBI agents in a Huntington, W.Va., motel room.

[Mankind]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

You got that right, Mankind.