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[afsjesse]

I finished work yesterday and headed to the bus terminal to catch the bus. I saw some of my high school students and sat next to them and said hello. On the next bench was an old man clearly drunk and he came over to talk to me. He was standing starting yelling at the girls I was next too. Something about them smoking or something. I waved him away and said I understood.

Then a couple of boy students came around the corner and he started yelling at them and motioned them over. One of them came and he started punching him in the head over and over again and the damn kid wouldn't even fight back. So I got up went over ahd shoved him off and he was a little taken aback. He said "good boy, good boy".... My students were surprised and laughing at the old geezer.

He comes back over to me and started talking again then out of no where the bus terminal ajumma ran and pushed him away, pretty hard too. He started making innappropriate comments and I yelled at him in a loud voice to stop and go away...

Very interesting incident. That was the first time that ever happened to me here in Korea over the past 20 months.

[Adventurer]

That reminds me when this guy in the subway was acting like a raving lunatic and being menacing to these adjumma types and yelling at his girlfriend. I was in a bad mood that day due to something immigration did, and so I was in no mood, and then when I looked torwards him he started yelling at me, and I told him in a clear voice that I wasn't in the mood for him now, and if he wanted to hit me, he could go ahead, and then I encouraged him to get off at the next stop, because I didn't like how he was bothering the halmony (grandmother) types. He did leave in fact. I do think his girlfriend did make things worse by trying to sush him in the wrong way by putting her hands on his lips.

Anyway, after he got off people were so happy and smiled and looked at me.....

[some waygug-in]

Hmm, I actually had a Korean guy stick up for me on the subway last weekend. I was taking the subway in Busan, minding my own business and I noticed a guy sitting across from me staring at me.

Knowing that this is a common thing in the land of K, I just looked away and ignored him.

The next thing I know he's in my face begging for money. I was a bit startled, then I realized he must have been mentally handicapped.

I handed him some change.

He quickly put it in his pocket and then started demanding more. He actually tried reaching into my pocket to see if I had more.

At this point I told him to go sit down and gently pushed him away, but he refused to leave and for a few seconds it seemed like things were going to get ugly.

Suddenly from further down in the car, I heard a Korean guy shouting.
He got up, ran over and grabbed the retarded guy and sent him back to his seat. Then he remained between the two of us until we exited.

I tried to thank him, but I was so embarrassed that I didn't know what to say really. Just bowed and walked away.

Why do the loonies always head straight for me?

[Joe666]

some waygug-in:

[Oreovictim]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

I call them the 'hump your leg' variety.

Not truly menacing, but there you are, looking around with this 'somebody please get him off me' kind of look.

[jkelly80]

There's a chubby bi polar case who sometimes hangs out near the VIPS in Hongdae. He usually sits on his cardboard and quacks in his frog language, but he's gotten up to waddle over and hit me twice, both times at peak time. He had to shoulder thru rows of people just to get at me.

I'm special

[Gillian57]

There are a few of these nut jobs in my little village, too. They will follow me down the street yelling something about "weagook, money, money, money..." One grabbed me by the hair once, yikes.

They have been known to wait across the street from my school and harass my students (it's a foreign language high school). Local boys who did NOT make it big in the big, bad world, I guess.....