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[Clockout]

Saw a bunch of people participating in this 2 weeks ago and and now I've seen some photos/videos popping up on Facebook.

This is terribly embarrassing to the foreigner community.

The dumb [Mod Edit] I've seen:
-Harassing non-participating Koreans
-Taking photos/videos of Koreans without their consent
-Public drinking (on the subway, carrying open containers into other places)

Basically it was the worst example of "OMG I'M IN KOREA HA HA IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT I DO!" that I've ever seen.

I'm not really into telling people how to spend their free time but I do believe that as foreigners we have an obligation to follow social norms more strictly than even the locals. We are under much closer scrutiny and are enjoying the privilege of being in Korea.

Also, most of these people are teachers which also carries with it a obligation of responsibility and maintaining a quality public image.

To those who participated: Everyone was laughing at you, not with you.

[murmanjake]

Sounds like fun...

I get how some of those things are innapropriate, but public drinking? c'mon....

[Clockout]

[AsiaESLbound]

It's not OK for me to be out filming and shooting in general public? No one's stopped me or even so gestured to stop though I don't randomly shove the cam into people's faces just to get something like a woman balancing her body weight on her head with no arms or a 90 year old man pulling a rickshaw type of trash cart or a rubber legger begger scoot bootin through at a snails pace as he jams old 3rd world country sounding music off of a car battery on a small trolley. I can't help myself to not capture the oddities and misfortunes of another country though I'm discreet. No harassment.

I've seen public drinking, but it's chronic alcoholics such as common in the Jongno Sam-ga area.

[curiousaboutkorea]

there's one where they try to sell stuff in the subway. Sounds like a breach of visa regulations to me

[nomad-ish]

[thunderbird]

scavinger hunts for adults are pretty retarded.

[Gaber]

I went to great one last fall in Hyehwa. I'm not familiar with the details of this one, but they can be good fun.

[kiknkorea]

They can be cool, depending on the format.

A lot of them now are photo/video contests more than anything else.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, I just prefer the traditional "Where can we find _____?" style.
I love taking pictures, but not for a scavenger hunt.

[Mountain Mama]

I didn't hear about this scavenger hunt. What did the participants have to collect/do? Is there a webpage about it?

[ChilgokBlackHole]

[is so delicious]

Is drinking in public (specifically the subway) illegal? Frowned upon?

I admit I do this occasionally... I am kind of halfway between not giving a f--k what Koreans think of me and being extra polite/appropriate. I never get any disapproving stares when I do this. Maybe it's because I'm always by myself, at the beginning of the night, quiet and not at all drunk.

Occasionally it just saves time and/or money to do it this way. Should I feel guilty?

[DC in Suwon]

a bunch of my friends did it.

they pretty much were wasted by 2pm doing random embarrassing stuff in public. i'm not really into doing that in a foreign country like others posted.

[Oreovictim]

There are a couple of people in my apartment building who did that. One of the things that they had to do was to go to an English hagwon and act like they wanted to sign up.

Koreans have better things to do than to deal with some annoying foreigners, who have seen Jack A$$ one too many times.

[DorkothyParker]

It's not something I would do (the general format of such an event is decidedly "square" to me).

However, between this and Sulperman's subway post, I think maybe this guy may have has a seminar in Seoul recently:
http://attrice.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/buzzkill.jpg