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annababy
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: South Korea
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 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:34 am Post subject: Why do people steal? |
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| So I was in Hongdae at TinPan2 on Saturday night and someone took my jacket. My favorite one too. It just shocks me that someone would do that. I called the place today and they don't have it. I can hope that maybe someone took it by mistake and will be kind enough to return it but somehow I doubt it. Blah! |
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ipsofacto
Joined: 26 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:09 am Post subject: Re: Why do people steal? |
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| annababy wrote: |
| So I was in Hongdae at TinPan2 on Saturday night and someone took my jacket. |
Thanks. It fits perfectly. It's just the colour that I don't like (although I'm sure it will grow on me). |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:10 am Post subject: |
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People steal because they want things that they can't afford and/or it gives them a thrill.
Why do you work? |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:47 am Post subject: |
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I only had one thing stolen in Korea- a pair of expensive sunny's, from Geckos. By foreigners of course. 
Koreans never steal objects or belongings in my experience. "Corporate theft" is their speciality. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| Greed and arrogance. Hagwon bosses steal money from employees because they are greedy. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:12 am Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| Greed and arrogance. Hagwon bosses steal money from employees because they are greedy. |
As I say "corporate theft" is not seen as a crime here. Lifting someones bicycle is worthy of the death penalty though apparently.
Fortunately I've always had every penny owed to me in Korea paid. Although I have had to struggle to get it at times though  |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:46 am Post subject: |
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People steal because they (think) they are trying to get even with the world.
Hasn't happened to me yet in Korea but has several times in America.
Just about everyone in America steals. |
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stealth_fighter
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| Koreans never steal objects or belongings in my experience. "Corporate theft" is their speciality. |
You'd better change your opinion. I left my umbrella outside a convenient store, came back, it had disappeared with the ajumas sitting over there! I was left to stare helplessly at the water trails it had left! |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: |
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tinpan alley is a worse shit magnet than hooker hill.
unfortunately, when you lie down with pigs you get AIDS. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Thieves need their butts kicked- plain and simple. |
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jaderedux
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Lurking outside Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
People steal because they (think) they are trying to get even with the world.
Hasn't happened to me yet in Korea but has several times in America.
Just about everyone in America steals. |
I grew up in America too. Never once had anything stolen. But Middle America one of the flyover states. Small town. Usually the worse that happened was a teachers house would get t.p'ed. Changed a bit now but still almost no crime. But and I know the P.C. group is going to be pissed the rise in crime rose with a huge influx of illegals. Not just Hispanic as the hispanic community had been there for years since early 30's. (sugar beets) But as the refugees from Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia moved in crime spiked for some time. It has leveled off some now as they have integrated more into the mainstream community.
Funny story: Police did have to get leaders of the asian communities together and tell them "that just because a dog was wandering around" They could not kill it and eat it. Story made the paper. I kid you not.
The Hispanics have more of a support system. Lots of Hispanic owned businesses and make up about 8% to 10% of the population of a relatively smallish town. But any newcomers are asked do not shoot your guns off when a baby is born and you can not shoot your gun in general just cuz you are having a good time. Fifth of May parties and such. (I know this because I am only 2nd gen. born in America in my family.) Grandfather and Grandmother came up from Mexico.
Here In the Haven of "Koreans don't Steal":
1 mp3 player stolen from school (Public school). I am the only foreigner so I doubt it was a foreigner.
Wallet lifted professionally during first world cup. sliced open side of my bag and took the wallet. Wallet taken once on a bus not sure how but was returned sans money to my mailbox in my apartment.
300,000 won taken from my purse at school (during lunch). Had some bill paying to do after I ate lunch. Was in my purse under my desk.
2 bikes stolen from our villa (locked to metal round posts attached to the stairs. ) They just broke the sticks off. We all learned better and lugged bikes up to our apartments.
1 set of head phones stolen from my drawer that doesn't lock in the Teachers room.
1 cheapo set "loaned" and never returned at school.
And my dear readers this is the "good" school.
Thieves are everywhere...and um...I am American and I don't steal. I don't know where you lived but it must have been awful place.
Jade |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Junior wrote: |
Koreans never steal objects or belongings in my experience. |
Students steal from other students. Motorbikes are stolen all the time.
Chopchaejoe:
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| Just about everyone in America steals. |
And all black people can rap.
You need different friends in the USA. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject: Re: Why do people steal? |
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| annababy wrote: |
| So I was in Hongdae at TinPan2 on Saturday night and someone took my jacket. My favorite one too. It just shocks me that someone would do that. I called the place today and they don't have it. I can hope that maybe someone took it by mistake and will be kind enough to return it but somehow I doubt it. Blah! |
A jacket? Cry more. I was at a camp here and my underwear was stolen. MY UNDERWEAR...THAT I'D BEEN WEARING FOR YEARS...THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE WEARING MY UNDERWEAR. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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I've stumbled home in someone else's shoes at least twice. At least twice. It's always those blurry-eyed 'sea o' shoes' stumbling departures out of a hard-core traditional korean restaurant. You aim your foots at what look like the shoes you walked out of the house in that morning. 99 times out of 100 they really are yours.
It's that annoying 1% of the time when they aren't. I'll be in the cab going home thinking "hmm... these shoes feel a little looser and more worn-in than usual... I wonder why that is". But for some drunken reason it just never occurs that they're not mine, not until I see them in the light of the next morning. They're always shabbier than my shoes. I think I probably end up with them become someone took mine.
I've twice walked out the door with someone else's jacket from 3 Alley. Heh. Got credit cards to prove it.  |
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rowdie3
Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Location: Itaewon, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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This MONTH I've lost the following:
PSP/game/memory card/headphones
80,000 W
I Pod
(All taken from a hotel room)
and a coat
(taken at Polly's. Left unattended for about 10 minutes)
In Korea in general I have had 4 bikes stolen.
My friend had her whole month's pay stolen out of her apartment on payday. Everyone working at her school new that they got paid in cash.
Getting robbed SUCKS! No way around it. |
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