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dulouz · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus

After living here for 3 years, I've discovered that there are no rapes, murders and robberies here. I don't belive that for one instant. Where then are the news stories of such?

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I've known tons of incidents. They're probably not news if it's Korean-on-Korean. Everyone's always willing to settle without arresting anyone.

Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

My wife is an I.C.U. nurse. Most weeks she comes home with a story of a someone being stabbed by their neighbour or some stalker setting fire to their girlfriend.
To be fair, these tend to be "in-house" affairs, as opposed to a random act to someone on the street.

Don't argue with your neighbours or date a psycho and you'll be fine.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

I agree. It seems like the most of the crime you hear about is not "stranger" crime. It all seems to happen to people who already know each other. Living in America, you are always worried about random crime, and I love living in a place where I don't have to. (Do you think America's crime rate is really taht high or does the media just play it up as they do so many other things?)

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I know a girl who knows a guy who is related to a girl who was recently attacked. She was in a women's washroom minding her own business when a psycho kicked the door in, knocked out her friend, and started kicking the shit out of her while she was on the can. He claimed he was drunk and couldn't remember, and got away with light misdemeanour charges.

flakfizer · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject:

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

It's my wife's coworker's cousin. No real way to describe that relationship with me, although I'd still bootfark the guy for her.

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

"Bootfark"? I gotta remember that one.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Fark is how I censor a certain word on here so it doesn't appear as *beep*. It has a nice ring to it though, doesn't it?

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

seattlespew · Joined: 01 Mar 2006

betchay · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Location: Seoul

if you watch the 9 o'clock news, they do report violent crimes... there's also a tv show called "hyong sa" which is a docudrama about crimes in korea based on real events

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I actually met and had lunch with a guy a couple of weeks before he was beat to death with a baseball bat in Seoul. That kind of thing never happened where I come from in the US.

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

There was a great one about the retarded farm boy in Gyeongsan who held up the local Ag-coop/mutual society to get the money to import a bride recently. Cheonan, so I am told, is murder city ROK and the English online dailies are full of mayhem, suicide, fraud, rape and embezzelment.

bnrockin · Joined: 27 Feb 2006

(Do you think America's crime rate is really taht high or does the media just play it up as they do so many other things?)[/quote]

It all really depends on where you live and what type of crimes you're looking for. I know in my small college town, there are pleanty of little crimes here and there. When you get into a city it becomes different. New Orleans used to have the most homocides than any other city in the U.S....but that might not be anymore.