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blackjack · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: anyang

Anyone else worried about this?

I have my own apartment, single, a little antisocial and my friends are used to not hearing from me for a while, my boss doesn't know where I live and only talk with my friends family back home every couple of weeks.

If I was to fall down my stairs and crack my head open I wonder how many weeks it would take till the neigbours complained about the smell. I have enough money in my account to pay rent and bills for at least six months. I guess if I didn't show up to work for a couple of weeks my boss could contact immigration.

my parents could contact my embassy but the NZ embassy would be unlikely to do anything.

So anyone else think about this or am I just morbid?

DrugstoreCowgirl · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:41 am Post subject:

While I did have a good laugh at this, I have to admit that this thought has crossed my mind before when I was sick with what I think was swine flu.

byrddogs · Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Location: Shanghai

i don't think about this too much (until someone reminds me). thanks for the bummer, lol.

Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:19 am Post subject:

Don't worry OP. If you ever get yourself into this kind of situation, you'll either be a decomposing corpse slowly bloating with intestinal gasses and leaking bodily fluid onto the floor or so hoarse from futilely screaming for help that you'll be in no condition to worry. In either case, there's nothing you can do now except stash caches of supplies and spare cell phones within arms' reach of every possible place in your home. In which case you'll probably trip over them and do yourself an injury.

roadwork · Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Location: Goin' up the country

I actually used to think about that a lot when I would go on blackout drinking binges. What if I were to smash my head on the corner of the table or cut it open on a soju bottle? It would definitely have to be when the smell came about because like the OP, at that time, no one knew where I lived, I had one or two friends that lived in other cities and only contacted my parents via e-mail.
Not sure if there is a safety plan for something like that.

steveinincheon · Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Location: in The Shadows of Gyeyangsan

Once you cracked your head open the amount of time u spent dead would be a\th\\e least of anyone;s concerns. My advice is to get some friends who co uld verify whether u r alive or not so you can reduce the time u would spend as a dead ass corpse. HOpe this helps. PS im drunk abnd dont mean to be a douccejhe

blackjack · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: anyang

not really worried, just one of those random thought type things when you got ya feet up watching TV

BoholDiver · Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Location: Canada

The only worry I have is that if I get killed in Korea with someone at fault, my family will be screwed by the court system.

Look at that SA lady in Mokpo, MIchael White, and others.

mc_jc · Joined: 13 Aug 2009 Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I

This brings up something I saw a long time ago while I was assigned at Camp Casey in 1990-1991.
Me and some friends went outside of the ville area to go to downtown TDC and a woman was standing by the roadside, I guess waiting for a bus or something, when a truck slammed into her.
We were like "oh sh*t!" as the truck just kept on going as if it only hit a raccoon or something. We figured someone would call the police or something and we walked on to a taxi stand further down the road.
But when we arrived at the spot we were more than two hours later, the woman's body was still there lying on the side of the road with cars whizzing by without even stopping to see if the woman was alive or not.
We went to a local police station to report what we saw and to bring the cop to the body. He looked at it and said "ok" as he took out his walkie-talkie to report what he saw.

That is one of the more extreme things I've seen during my time in Korea.

GoldMember · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

My wife's uncle died a few years ago. He died alone, as he was a bachelor, and on vacation at the time, so he wasn't missed from work. It was a few days before his body was discovered. What do we discover near the decaying body. A massive collection of porno videos!

Be careful what you have in your apartment in case you die.

cpolian · Joined: 18 Oct 2009

fermentation · Joined: 22 Jun 2009

youtuber · Joined: 13 Sep 2009

ryoga013 · Joined: 23 Nov 2008

You mean you don't have hookers coming by twice a day like every other foreigner? Man, you've got to tell the Korean press about this story haha

seriously though, I'd get called if I was 15minutes late and there'd be someone at my place in an hour. Not worried at all about having them clean up a rotten corpse.