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DaeguKid · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Location: Daegu

Happy New Folks...it came to light for me the other day. I got a car and I was waiting at a red light to turn left. And as Im waiting a car comes up in the right hand line, goes to the front of the line and cuts in to the left. I know this happens all the time, but it hit me! Koreans are just cheaters.

-I play hockey, and the cherry picker is always a Korean.
-I watch my kids play soccer, the idea of offside is a foreign concept to them.
-the love hotels and how married folk use them to cheat.
-the brothels, for the married man
-remember two years ago (it could have been last year, can't remember) when about 500 high school students went down for cheating on their big November exam. Parents and teachers were part of it too

Those are just a few examples i can think of, but man, this is one cheating society. Why? Whats up? Would really like to know what you would think about this...
DK

seoulsucker · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:11 am Post subject:

I think the competitive nature of Koreans that borders on the ridiculous might have something to do with it.

jdog2050 · Joined: 17 Dec 2006

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

I've wondered about this a lot, too. You can also point to the college students automatically graduating as an example, as well as the recent news that foreign language high schools were systematically fudging grades to make, for example, a 60% appear as an A on a report card, to get high school students into Ivy League schools.

As a basic example, the students cheat obsessively. I don't remember if my classmates cheated so much when I was young, because I was really oblivious and a bit of a space cadet, but it is certainly like second-nature in my classes here. Students will look at their neighbor's paper all the time, even when I'm looking directly at them.

DaeguKid · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Location: Daegu

jdog2050 · Joined: 17 Dec 2006

Cerebroden · Joined: 27 Dec 2006

if you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin

PimpofKorea · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:47 am Post subject:

Are they cheaters....absofreakinutely....that's why I don't mind cheating the system...not one bit....

Young FRANKenstein

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Cheating is commonplace because women here are under so much pressure from their families to get married that they marry someone they don't love.

More examples of cheating,

1) drivers on the roads driving through red lights.

2) line cutting at the train stations & post offices (especially by old ladies)

3) On airplanes, we're told to stay in our seats upon arrival until the plane comes to a full stop. However, I often see Koreans ignoring this rule to get their carry-on bags from the overhead compartments so they can get off of the plane first. You can see how irritated the flight attendants get.

jmbran11 · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Location: U.S.

Cheating is a part of every culture. Let's see: Enron, an ex-president getting his nob polished in the oval office, a current president whose father bribed his way into law school, need I go on.

Human beings are dishonest and we take shortcuts. Koreans are no exception and no worse than anywhere else.

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

It sure is. The kids don't seem to realize puzzles and games are meant for fun so they copy and cheat at those. Never mind tests, they'll cheat at an activity that means next to nothing.

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

minorthreat · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:09 am Post subject:

See: 2002 World Cup.

Signed,
A still bitter fan of La Furia Roja