Korean Job Discussion Forums

[JasonC]

Hello,

OK, so perhaps like you, I've had to shake my head a hundred times and get really frustrated by seeing kids dancing around the backseat of cars not wearing seat belts, let alone being in a car seat. Or, perhaps a kid on a moped with grandpa, or sitting on grandama's lap in the front seat of the car.

So, instead of just getting upset and doing nothing, I have a plan to take action, but am hoping for some help. Here is the plan:

I've been around since 1999, so my Korean is pretty good, and being a white Canadian guy, that always gets some notice. So, my plan is to leverage that along with video sharing sites and make a video with me talking in Korean about the dangers of not having a car seat.

I'm hoping that the "white guy talking Korean" will be enough to get it to spread a bit, and that with a decent job on the video, I can get some emotions going. My main goal is really to get the video around enough and to change the attitude to make it so that other Koreans look at each other with disapproval when they see this type of thing. The only way I can see to make a change is for it to catch on like anything else from DDR to Starcraft etc...by using the fact that things catch on really quickly here and become popular quickly...I'm hoping to make it unpopular to not have your kid in a car seat.

So, how can you help? I need photos or videos of Korean kids running around back seats or sitting on someone's lap, or on a moped without a helmet.

We all know that you can easily find this on any given day standing at an intersection for 10 minutes. So, please snap a few pictures or videos and send them to me at jason at asknow dot ca. You can visit http://ww.asknow.ca to get my address there if you need it.

Also, if you have any good links to research on car seat vs. no car seat in accidents, that would be helpful too. I'm going to do more research and get some stats, but any help is appreciated.

Also, if you just feel like recording yourself and saying something like "Please use a car seat" it would be cool to have like 20 people saying that on the video too.

So, if you want to do something that can actually make a difference and not just feel frustrated and useless, please do whatever you can to help.

Thanks!

Jason Cresswell
jason at asknow dot ca

[denistron]

I want to see you take pictures of an entire family riding on a single scooter, if you are fast enough to pull out your camera while they fly by you at 100 km/h on the side walk!

[CentralCali]

I think some Korean organizations have beaten you to the punch. A couple of months ago, on the way back from a day-long trip we passengers on the tour bus got to watch the big screen tv up at the front of the bus. A 45 minute long program was all about car seat use and seat belt use.

Not so surprisingly, the driver requested everyone to wear their seat belts on the ride up and he repeated that request on the ride back.

[Captain Corea]

Fine idea.

[dogshed]

My favorite are the cab drivers who lay the belt across their shoulders to fool the cop but never buckle it.

The last time I was in a cab I put mine on and got the driver to buckle his by showing him the word family in my dictionary. There's a good chance he unbuckled it as soon as I got out of the cab, but maybe I got him thinking.

Once when I was on the bus I looked down to see a couple with seat belts on, but their kid was playing in mom's lap.

[Homer]

Good idea it can only help the already in motion move towards car seats.

However you can't force people to believe the same things you do or to value the same things you do. It will take time and it might not change like it did back home (from no belt wearing in cars to full belts and car seats for kids....). Heck, when I was a kid my folks would not have bought a car seat....they did not see the big deal and this is only 25 years ago.....