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matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

On may way to the office outside my subway there was a elderly man face up on the sidewalk, apparently dead. Luckily someone had called the paramedics.

This was my first dead person possibly in my life. Has Anyone else seen dead people in Korea?

Boodleheimer · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject:

nope. never seen a dead person, period. do korean dead people look different from non-korean stiffs? cuz i have been told by a doctor that white people's physiology is different from koreans'

edit: from the thread title, i thought maybe you were looking for a copy of The Sixth Sense. clever, if it was intentional. funny, if not.

snowy32 · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Location: NZ

A couple of months ago in my neighbourhood a delivery guy was run over by a bus and his brain went flying across the street. I only saw his brain, the rest was covered up. A Co-worker had walked past earlier and said that she saw the guy lying uncovered on the ground. The police were there but they didn't seem to mind that he was exposed for little kids to see.

seoulsucker · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject:

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

A friend of mine's dog found a human foot in a shoe near the river. He called the police and never heard more about it.

manlyboy · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject:

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djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

I haven't seen any dead bodies here in Korea, but I have seen ambulance people washing blood off the road where a pedestrian (presumably) was smeared over a pedestrian crossing. The paint outline around the body was there for months afterwards. I've seen a few dead bodies before I came to Korea though, including post mortems.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Almost 3 years ago at Migeum Station in Bundang I walked around the corner to see an obivously dead person getting wrapped up in plastic sheeting. An ajumma walking near me was surprised by the dead guy and let out this great involuntary scream!!!

Some people were looking up so I did and saw that he had fallen off a broken maintenence platform which was dangling in mid air. Seems like he was putting on a sign or cleaning the building.

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

Seen at least two fatal car accidents, just after impact and before the ambulance. Both times on a highway or expressway, the dead guy in plain sight of traffic being filtered past the accident site.

Makes for a slow cautious drive home after that.

neandergirl · Joined: 23 Jun 2005

I've seen three. The first was an old man who just dropped from his bicycle while crossing the street.
The second was a decapitated motorcyclist on the highway between Busan and Daegu.
The third was a woman who jumped off the building we were living in.

formerflautist · Joined: 30 May 2006

There was heavy fog the morning I arrived in Korea. I was in a taxi with another new teacher and a school administrator. Traffic started slowing down because off to the side of the road was a burned up car and a guy being put into a body bag. I'd been in Korea less than an hour.

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

I saw a pretty bad accident when I first arrived. Right outside the airport, a car was lying on its roof. Couldn't see any bodies though.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Saw this guy either dead or dead drunk lying in the street by my apartment. The lighting is pretty crappy, mind you. It was night and I couldn't get very close to take a good photo. At least there were some people around trying to help.

A couple months ago I saw some 60 year old guy just hunkering down in the middle of a merge lane to take a rest. He had his eyes closed and he was taking a little cat nap. In the middle of a street, right around a bend where people aren't looking for someone sitting cross legged in the middle of the road. I don't know if the guy was just trying to die. If he was, he couldn't have found a better place to end his life. Oddly, no one was trying to move him out of the lane. People were standing around watching him. Eventually some young university guy managed to move him out of harms way. I swear to god, between this and that young guy that jumped onto the subway tracks to save a baby, 20 year old guys are about the only ones who can still take independent action.

periwinkle · Joined: 08 Feb 2003

Saw a nasty car accident on the hwy- a semi-trailer must've stopped too abruptly, and the car behind them kept on going. The front part of the car was completely crushed- the driver and his shotgun pax were pretty much pulverized , and one of the pax in the back was hanging out the window- I think they tried to check his vitals, and when there were none, they just left him. I saw a trickle of blood coming out of his mouth, which I heard is a sign of massive intenal injuries. It was really disturbing, and I wished I hadn't seen it. I thought about it occasionally for a long time afterward. It looked like a carload of uni. students, and I was teaching uni at the time, so it made me think about how short their lives were cut. Study, study, study, do military service, get killed in a car accident. Sad~