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just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Was in seoul today and was on the subway at Jongno 3-Ga...

I was reading the IHT when this crazy guy starting talking loudly at me....
I couldn't understand a thing he was saying(he was just basically making sounds that just ran into each other) but i knew it wasn't nice whatever was going through his head...

After 2 minutes of him berating me i told him sternly in Korean to hurry and and get off the subway because you are very annoying.
He went and hid up the other end of the subway car mumbling loudly some korean swear words for about 5 minutes while i held the newspaper up and blocked any view of him which annoyed him more but i think he got the point.....

Does anybody know who i am talking about....he looked pretty loopy and not with it so i didn't do anything stupid or rash....

Just having a bit of a rant...

Korea has been really good to me so i suppose i was due a loony tune.....

Funnily enough my first bad experience happened on the subway in Seoul as well which is wierd considering i live 400 km away and would visit twice a year on average....

Do people get a lot of heat on the subway in Seoul??/
-Experience nothing like what i have there in the past down here in the sunny south....

merkurix · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Location: Not far from the deep end.

oneofthesarahs · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Location: Sacheon City

Crazy dudes are drawn to subways much as a salmon is drawn upstream. It is where they belong.

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

I've met a lot of crazy people on the subway but they always want to be my friend. A couple months ago I was attacked by a gang of middle school girls who wanted to know my favourite band and if I had a girlfriend. I got off at the next stop and waited for the next train.

ipsofacto · Joined: 26 Feb 2007

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject:

Worse things happen over five years in a big city back home: I've had someone threaten me with a gun in Vancouver, chase me yelling and screaming for no reason on the streets of San Francisco and hit me with a chair in Detroit.

Funny though that when we go overseas we start tallying experiences and judging accordingly.

Life is life, and if one's gonna start keeping score, then Korea's ahead of the game in some ways.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Had that happen this week. But the guy was focusing on a number of people on the train before he got to me.

I looked at him, smiled, and he went away.

I'm guessing a different guy than yours.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

doggyji · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject:

I have been living in Canada for 5 years. I remember just four bad experiences.

1. My parents and I were robbed by two guys with knifes at the store.

2. There was a house break-in theft and I lost my laptop and mom lost her jewelries.

3. A drunk guy was harrassing girls around on a bus (no, not some Korean immigrant ajosshi but a white guy) and I had to take care of him, smelling his excellent breath and listening to his endless gibberish.

4. My ex-crazy neighbour next door to me (no, not some Korean immigrant ajosshi but a white guy) threatened me giving me the middle finger when I politely asked him to volume down his loud music at 3 am. Good god, he moved out.

During my 19 years of life in Korea, no such things ever happened to me. What do I try to tell? Nothing special. Life is life.

*Oh, how did I forget to mention this one...

5. One late night, a crazy van rushed to the front glassy door of my parents' store in an attempt to steal cigarettes when we were home. Fortunately, a police car was very close so they had to run away with nothing at their hands. They weren't caught though and we had to install several concrete posts in front of the door.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

Very few crazy things have happened to me here, but of the things that have happened, 95% of them were on the subway. In the past week, I had an old man spit at me when I was with my girlfriend, and my friend and I had an ajossi tell us to "shut up" because we were talking, and very quietly at that. That's the worst that has happened to me in a long time.

matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

No fights, rants, arguments, or attacks on me here in my 4+ years.

Best advice - Leave people like this alone. Smile like a previous poster and go about your business as you don't know squat about theirs.

The stupid foreigner card really works well in this country.

sumfunu · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Location: Canada

Well, I spent 8 years in Seoul and had dozens of great experiences for every bad one, that's for sure. One memorable incident on the subway though involved a crazed Christian with a four foot stainless-steel cross. My first mistake ( I was a bit tired and distracted ) was not answering him in French, as I usually did when these Bible-thumpers confronted me. Once he was aware that I spoke English-EE, he began lecturing me, while two young conscripted subway police tried to get him to move on and leave the " foreigner " alone. While weighing my options of kicking him in the groin or giving him a palm strike, he turned to scold the young cops just as the train pulled up to a station and I slipped out the door and away from my tormentor. A former co-worker of mine told me that she had seen the same guy( unless there are a group of people with stainless steel crosses ) chasing a poor Korean women at Seoul Station, swinging his cross at her and calling her a harlot, because she had a mini-skirt on.