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aldershot · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

ok, since it seems there's much noise about fighting these days, what's the best bar fight you've seen in korea? i've seen a few. never been in one. i've seen a man slam his lady's head on the table, another where the woman's broken a bottle of soju and put it to her boyfriend/husband's neck...

...but the best bar fight i've seen was this:

i was sitting with my friend in a hof, drinking beer, playing backgammon. recounting our day at the school, laughing, crying, talking about salt and vinnegar chips. the table directly next to us had the typical after-business party going on. raucous, slamming back the beer, secretaries giddy, men bragging, loud, loud chatter.

this affected my game of course, but besides the point: the boss (or so we figured) had singled out one of his employees and was hammering the poor guy. thrusting his finger in the guy's face, yelling at him, taunting him. the employee (a young-ish dude) sat with head bowed. nervously taking every insult the boss threw at him, he'd drink when the rest of his co-workers raised their glasses, but kept completely silent. the boss accosted him for well over an hour.

as the dice of the game rolled, a sound escaped the lips of the young employee. he told the boss to shut up. the boss began yelling madly. "you farking disrepectful piece of dog-by-product!!"

the employee lost it. at a table of 20 people, he flipped it over. 20 glasses went flying, 3000cc pitchers hit the floor, hotdogs were all over the place. the employee grabbed his 500cc mug and smashed it on the table, wielding it as a weapon since it had a handle. shards of glass went flying, in my and my friend's hair, in our own beer, and especially all over the backgammon.

the employee thrust his new weapon at his boss and nicked him in the arm. pretty deeply, judging from the blood that was now pouring on the ground. the boss rushed the employee. the employee's co-workers all shielded him, some of them holding the boss back. the secretaries soothed the broken employee. the boss passed a kidney stone trying to swallow his loss of face. both employee and boss were pulled out of the bar from separate exits. the boss left a trail of blood behind him.

1 minute later the hof was back to cruise control. everything normal. the other patrons didn't flinch during the whole scene.

i got a free pitcher, since glass flew in my last one.

i wonder if the employee went back to work the next day.

Guri Guy · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Location: Bamboo Island

If you mean live I honestly haven't seen one. Maybe I don't go to the wrong bars.
I thought the one in Croaching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was pretty cool though.

Natebomb · Joined: 23 May 2006

I've been in the middle of one, trainspotting style. It was awesome!

rednblack · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Location: In a quiet place

I saw a cracker 6 years ago. A group of young guys having a good old piss-up for a few hours. I glance up at a commotion and see one has another marched up on the stage by the throat and is pinning him to the live noray bang speaker. Long story short- they punched each other across the floor, down to the tables, through the tables and chairs, before they were parted. The one with the bloody face leaves, the victor comes and says sorry to me for such a display followed by the beaten boy coming in again for round 2. Classic. BTW have a few stories of my own in similar situations...and no, I'm not a *beep* who loves somes aggro. Just seems to happen sometimes if you live in a place long enough.

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

The best one that I missed was at Watermelon Sugar in Taejon. The Canucks and Yanks had doozie a few years ago.

lastat06513 · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject:

I saw many legendary fights~

One of them were between some GIs from a base on the southern part of Korea versus a group from 2ID. It was a big classic rumble that took place right at the bottom of hooker hill around 1999. It was no-holds-barred to the point that they took some stuff from an egg sandwich cart to use in the fight. It ended after 2 vans of MPs and KNPs arrived to scatter the bunch.

Then another one occurred between some arab factory workers versus some Nigerians. They were even more vicious- broken beer bottles, sticks and I think I saw a knife or 2 in the mix. This time, no one stopped it- I mean, the only thing the police did was to make a ring around the fight so they don't spill over into other areas of Itaewon.

Ah yeah, if you want to see a good scrap- you used to be able to see it in Itaewon in its heyday.

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

My fave all time fight was two chicks going at it. No one even tried to stop them as they rolled around in the mud ripping their clothes off. Damn it was terrible!

kermo · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject:

My very first bar fight is still my favourite.
It was a quiet night in O'Reilly and O'Toole's. The old Irish pub owner (former boxer) is behind the bar. Some very red-nosed older man wanders into the bar. He's told that he won't be served, because he's already soused. The man mumbles something about "taking it outside" (I'm assuming he doesn't mean the serving of alcohol) and the bartender leaps into action.

And I mean leaps. He vaults over the bar, crosses the bar in a few steps, taking the hapless drunk with him and out the door. I hear one punch, one strangled ARRGHLLLGH, and the bartender strolls back in, cool as you like.

Tidy, swift, just. That was a good fight.

poet13 · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:

I saw an pretty vicious beat down last night in front of a bar I had just left. They came piling down the stairs after me, and I just stepped out of the way. In my town, it's the first time I have seen more than a one on one. Maybe fifteen uni guys, pretty drunk. About 7 of them beat the living crap out of one of their group. When he went down, they picked him up, held him up, and knocked him down again. They formed a kicking circle for a bit, then picked him up, held him up, and practised tae kwon do kicks and punches on him. I had locked my bike to a pole in the middle of this mess. They were actually very polite about bowing to me and stepping aside so I could get my bike. I recognized a couple ot them as former students. Then four police cars rolled up really fast and everybody started playing nice and helping him up.

seoulsucker · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject:

I saw a Korean businessman smash a beer bottle over his own head during a loud hof argument, knocking himself out cold. Absolutely priceless.

poet13 · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject:

"I saw a Korean businessman smash a beer bottle over his own head during a loud hof argument, knocking himself out cold. Absolutely priceless."

LMFAO!!! I would have paid good money to see that.

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

Aldershot, if your name is taken from the sh1tty, chav-infested army town in Southern England of the same name, then you've probably witnessed some decent scraps before! Very Happy

discostar23 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Location: getting the hell out of dodge

i was at a lesbian bar in hongdae and the girl who I was with (who i have since figured out is crazy) decided to hit on some other chick. Unfortuneately korean leasians especially butches are very territorial, so they got into it. The owner got involved too. I was sitting inside drinking when some chick came and informed me my friend was in a fight. So I went out and she had the owner of the bar by the neck. I pulled her off. While holding the crazy girl with one arm, I fenned off six other lesbians eventually throwing a chair (with my one free hand) to block the elevator. Finally made it to the bottom floor just before the police arrived.

Now that was tonnes of fun.

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005