Korean Job Discussion Forums

[andrew]

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[poeticjustice]

[Adventurer]

[Len8]

Daves wasn't up and running at the time. If it was there would have been more info available about the murderers, and it might have impacted on their demise as well.

[in_seoul_2003]

"My opinion about the article, though, is that I don't think racial slayings are unique only to Korea"

"Well, when I lived in a suburb outside of Dallas I felt perfectly safe, but in certain parts of Dallas I didn't. There are racial crimes in the U.S., but the US is a far more diverse country."




Of course racial slayings are not unique to Korea, for christsakes!!

Geesus, I've never seen two posts jump so quickly into defense mode.

[Bloopity Bloop]

http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2008/03/almost-kind-of-strange-coincidence.html

That blog entry also has a link to the original discussion of the account on Dave's.

[rollo]

I remember the Matt Sellers death and that his family and his hometown newspaper pursued an inivestigation. a vey healthy young man is picked up by the police and alledgedly was taken to a hospital because of his strange behavior and given a shot and died. But Matt's friends and co-workers state that his behavior that day had been normal. Also a lot of hole in the police's story. About the time of the accident concernng the deaths of the two little girls. When Mattts family and the newspaper tried to contact the policement involved they were conviently all on extended vacation.

[Mr. Pink]

[Captain Corea]

Hadn't heard of those stories before.

Interesting.

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to put together a list of foreign teachers' deaths here in Korea.

[Yaya]

Years ago, I also remember a U.S. serviceman who was killed by a mentally disturbed Korean man in Itaewon. The Korean man asked for something and then suddenly stabbed the soldier.

[Eedoryeong]

[mack the knife]

U.S. soldiers stationed here getting killed by the natives is nothing new. When Robert Durant (you remember him as the soldier who was captured in Black Hawk Down) wrote his memoirs he included a nifty little snippet about airlifting a U.S. soldier who'd gotten brained by a brick thrown by a Korean from an apartment building.

Can you feel the Sparkle?

[Robot_Teacher]

What I don't understand is Americans are preferred for their style of English speaking, but most disliked. Is that a paradox or what?


I'm glad Korean civilians don't have guns, because if they did, it would be very bad for both Koreans and foreigners. There's a good reason why Koreans don't have guns like Americans commonly have.

[gypsyfish]

[Adventurer]

Well, in Korea unless there is a smoking gun or a confession you can often not find out how a foreigner or a Korean, for that matter, was murdered. The public is not putting fire up the rear ends of the police chiefs to get them to reform, so they are slow to change. There should have been a major investigation when Matt Sellers, who seemed like a nice guy who lived in Korea for 10 years, but got alarmed at the anti-American feeling and hysteria in 2002 and was about to bail from Korea before he met his demise.

Some deaths are reported as suicides. Essentially, Korea has a higher crime rate than the offical crime rate. True crimes are not reported properly, and there is not attempt to make sure, muders are properly investigated in all cases, and many in Korea who criticize the police have this perception, that they do very little.

Initially, the police force was just established to keep those in power in power. It was not focused on keeping the public at large safe and providing them with a great public service. Also, the so-called cops
who break up protests are not regular police officers. They have no other job except to break up protests.

In Korea, you are relatively safe, but if something happens to you or happened to you, then getting to the truth will be hard in many cases, because it's inconvenient with the way the police system is unresponsive when it comes to using modern investigative practices to investigate crimes. The police are aware of this criticism. Unless there is a major public outcry or a major official wanting to overhaul things, you will just get more of the same.

There was a Podcast talking about all this and it mentioned the names of foreigners who died like Mat Sellers, Stephannie White's son, and this fellow from England, whose name escapes me, who supposedly jumped in the river, but things didn't seem to add up, but they labeled it a suicide.
I don't remember all the details. I think Bassexpander might be able to shed some light on this. It's not really so much about racism, but rather how the Korean police deals with crime in general.

Bass? Can someone PM him to join in?