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[billybrobby]

Share a good story about seeing some Korean dudes go at each other.

So, I'm sitting my apartment, and I heard this guy hollering "ah! ah! ah!" in the street down below. And I realize that I've been hearing for this bullsh*t the past few minutes. Finally, curiosity gets the best of me and I look out the window. There's a Korean dude and he's surrounded by 4 other dudes and he's taking swings in their general direction. He's barking like an animal and throwing wild punches all over the place and appears to be blind drunk. At first I think it's just a bunch of friends playing grab-ass the way Korean guys tend to do, but I look closer, and he's wearing a blazer with no shirt on underneath. Clearly, he has lost all reason.

A random car rolls by and the guy hits the car with his fist. The car stops, words are exchanged, and some other guys tell the driver to just leave. Ah, the old Asian stereotype of harmony over conflict. Nobody appears to be friends with this nut, so I don't understand why they don't just all beat his ass. It's hard to tell who is friends with who. It's so much easier when it's racial conflict. The guy throws a few haymakers right at people's faces, but he's too drunk too connect well. Why doesn't he get stomped? Maybe because it was only 9:30 at night.

Then a cop car rolls up. A portly adjosshi cop shuffles out while his partner stays in the car, no doubt polishing off chicken stick or something. The nutcase gets right in the cops face and even pushes him. The cop responds by trying to calm him down. Ah, Korean police. But then the guy takes a shot right at the cops face. And you wouldn't you know it, the old man grabs him and tosses him right to the ground. The cop and the guy roll around struggling with the handcuffs while the cops partner *walks* over. No doubt trying to avoid indigestion. It results in the two cops and a random adjosshi wearing hiking gear trying to push this guy into the cop car, while the nearby parking lot adjosshis (it takes three to run this particular parking lot) yell at him, "Hurry up and get the in car. The police are busy people." He finally gets thrown in there and the cop car rolls away. It was a Monday night, by the way.

[Scotticus]

My story is only half-appropriate, as it involved a guy going after a woman:

On our way out the door, we see a little altercation going down between, we think, two vendors. An American-sized (see also: beer gutted) middle aged man in a polo shirt is screaming like a maniac, bitching out some woman at her street-food stand.

People are trying to hold him back, but he just keeps going at her. At one point he gets to kick her in the ass, otherwise they kept him away from her. He was totally trying the hockey-manuever, though. That polo shirt almost came off multiple times as he struggled to get away.

Meanwhile some woman is bitching out both the man and the vendor lady because, while the man is trying to get at her, the vendor lady just keep egging him on, tossing insults, etc. This went on for a good five minutes. Me and the gf eventually left, as there didn't seem to be any resolution in sight.

Not sure if anyone was intoxicated, but it was probably 2pm on a Saturday.

[Qinella]

I love the term 'playing grab-ass'. Oh, it makes my day.

Here's a strange story I posted in Jan. 06. Copy and paste job:


I was walking around downtown Daejeon last night with my girlfriend, when suddenly a group of high school aged guys were running and stopped right in front of us. They pushed one dude to the ground and the rest (about 8 or 9 guys) surrounded him and took turns kicking him. Everyone in the area stopped, but of course no one helped, and I knew they wouldn't. I was like, should I help this guy? I can handle stupid high school boys. But my girlfriend said, "I think they're just playing. Look, they aren't really kicking hard, or hitting his head."

So I observed more closely and they weren't kicking too hard, and everyone was laughing. After about a minute, they stopped and helped him up. He had a look on his face like you'd expect from someone who'd just gotten beaten, and he could barely stand. But two guys got around him and hoisted his arms around their shoulders to help him walk, and they all just walked off together, laughing and talking.


I witnessed a similar event occur down on the street while I was standing on the smoking balcony of the 12th floor of my apartment a few months back. It was about midnight, some uniformed youths enter my field of vision running and wailing. They kick one dude to the ground and bust him up a bit, then he gets up and they scamper off together.

That time, I got on myspace and posted cute little pictures from the Internet onto my best friends' pages' comments spaces.

[ajgeddes]

[some waygug-in]

Mine is not that exciting...just kind of weird.


A couple of years back..maybe 3, I used to live about 4 blocks from the haggie and I regularly walked back and forth to work.

It was during summer "vacation" and we had a morning class for a month. Then I had a break until 2 so I walked home. This happened at lunch time.

One day I was passing the local raw fish restaurant area and I noticed a crowd had gathered. As I passed by, I noticed what the excitement was all about. There were 2 old guys (I'm sure in their 70's or so) rolling around on the ground between the tables of the restaurant. One guy had a choke-hold around the other guy's throat. I thought he was going to kill the other guy, but after a bit I could see that he was just holding him, with the threat of the choke being made. They both we hissing obcenities at each other (at least I guess that's what they were) and rolling around bumping into stuff. The weird part was that the one guy's wife was trying to get in to help her husband. (I guessed that he was the one getting the worst of it) and a few bystanders were standing between her and the brawl, keeping her away. Everyone else just seemed to be standing there entranced by the goings on.

I walked away after a few seconds and got about 50 feet away when I heard a loud crash. I looked back and saw that their had been a car accident as passing drivers slowed down to see what was happening and the cars behind plowed into them.



I decided it was best to leave well enough alone.

I never asked or heard any more about the incident.

[seoulsucker]

I've posted this story before, but nothing tops the time I saw a guy knock himself out by smashing a beer bottle over his own head during a shouting match. The other guy just shrugged, lit up a smoke and walked away.

[khyber]

I was in bujeon market in busan when I heard to ajumas yelling. One of them owned one o those dried bean stalls and the other had canned goods; a sorta general super.
yell yell yell. One of them has a son (mid/late 20s) who comes out grabs the BIGGEST tub of beans (one of those tubs that are almost a meter diameter) and tosses it down spilling all the beans everywhere.

I turned around to make sure that the young prack didn't hit that old woman but otherwise, I just shook my head and mumbled she-bal-sse-kki as I walked through the dirty alley.

[happeningthang]

I witnessed a nightclub brawl when the contents of the club spilled out onto the street underneath my bar window.

I gotta say I expected a lot more from groups of teens and 20 somethings in the middle of a gang brawl, but they were all markedly restrained, and limited themselves to agressive finger pointing, and lots of commentary along the lines of AIIIIISSHHH.

Some took it to extremes and actually added the -bar to the aish-, and that's when it got really messy. Two guys pushed their opponents, and the ringleader actually slapped the bouncer. I guess the bouncer thought this was the right thing to do since, he bowed and palm rubbed his apologies profusely. With all this encouragement ringleader slapped him again.

After 15-20 minutes of this the cops made an appearance and the local factions all shoved their hands in their pockets, turned on their heels and took an unusually intense interest in what was happening in the sky, whistling all the while.

K-plod actually cracked the window as they rolled through the carpark, looked around and nodded as if to say, "damn straight", and carried on their way. Fight over.

[cwemory]

When I lived in Wonju, I shared the same building with many college students. One evening, about to leave my apartment to go to dinner, I hear screaming and banging next door. Curious, I walk into the hall, and see the next-door apartment wide-open, looking in I see an 아저씨, all 5'4", 135lbs of him, giving a beat down to a 20-something 5'10" obese college student. It was surreal, a man that small kicking such a large ass.
I found out later that the 아저씨 was the college student's father. the student was performing poorly in school and the father had decided "discipline" was in order.