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[SeoulShakin]

I live in a relatively noisy neighbourhood.
There is a bar underneath my apartment (small hof/restaurant).
I have become used to sleeping with "background noise". It really doesn't bother me. Hell I usually sleep through little drunken ajosshi tiffs that happen downstairs. They're not THAT loud usually.

Something has to be pretty damn loud to wake me up.

Friggin drunk-ass foreigners.
Screaming and yelling and fighting (guy and a girl) for like 30 friggin minutes early this morning. Woke me up. I'm on vacation, so I wasn't too happy about it.

Hoped they would move on, but no.
So I opened my window and said "Hey, would you guys mind please just shutting up?". Yeah, probably not the most polite, but gets the message across, the sun is barely up, and they've been going at it for a long time with Koreans trying to avoid them, and looking kinda terrified as they walked past (only a few it was pretty early).

But no, Mr. Drunkeypants (looked possibly like a GI?) decided to now tell me off instead of the chick he was with, telling me to get down out of my 3rd floor apartment and say that to his face, or he'd come up here and slit my effing throat. Then he said "just shut the eff up and go back to goddamn sleep", to which I replied, "I'm trying to do that, as is my whole neighbourhood, but for the past 30 minutes it's been rather difficult". I got more cusswords, more threats to my life, etc.

Quite the charmer.

Finally their two friends dragged them away, but seriously, had it been me that realized my behaviour was waking up an entire neighbourhood, I'd be embarassed and leave. Some people have no consideration I guess.

They're gone now, but I'm wide awake. Damage is done.

But seriously, for all the amount people complain about Koreans on this board, I've never had a Korean say things to me like that. Threatening to slit my throat, etc. Ridiculous.

Happy beginning of vacation to me!
Ranting complete.

[Yesterday]

time to change neigbourhoods?

sometimes I think what Koreans think about "foreigners" in Korea is true...

too many drunk-a5s, drug-taking, loser foreigners here - out drinking every night, acting like animals and doing things that they wouldn't even do in their homecountry....

[JamesFord]

Where abouts do you live?

[SeoulShakin]

Haha yeah perhaps. I'm finished here at the end of February though, and don't want to go without my oven, bathtub, washer/dryer, 3 bedroom place till then.

I've been here almost a year, and only had 2 incidents like this that I couldn't sleep through. The other one involved Koreans. However when I opened my door for that incident with my phone to call the police, another woman told me she was going to call, and for me not to worry. (That incident was violent though, and they were really hurting each other).

No threats toward me at all.

But Mr. Drunkeypants GI decided that because I asked him to tone it down or move along, I deserved threats to my life, and being told he'd beat the crap out of me and slit my throat.

And my friends wonder why I say that GI's are USUALLY not my type (I say usually because I know some who are genuinely nice people, but the majority I've met here are just poor excuses, considering they are representing their country).

I've never seen them around here before, and generally it's the same 2-3 foreigners in my area that I see all the time.

Happy friggin Friday!

[SeoulShakin]

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[SeoulShakin]

Shut up was tame compared to the words they were using, trust me.

It wasn't shut the hell up, or shut the *** up.

Heck it wasn't even just shut up.

"Hey would you guys mind please just shutting up". I even threw in a please for good measure haha. Like I said in my OP, I know it wasn't the most polite, but I was pissed, the Koreans around looked terrified, and it was the first day of my vacation.

The guy was pissed before I even came into the picture.

His friends got the point though. When the guy told me to "shut the eff up and go back to sleep", and I replied "I am trying to, as is the rest of the neighbourhood, but for the past 30 minutes it's been rather difficult", his friends grabbed them both and said "come on, it's time to go home".

I'm not saying I chose the best words, but I don't think saying shut up warrants death threats.

[JamesFord]

I fully support your using 'shut up'. I actually think you were quite polite considering the circumstances. I used to be polite too, but I reached a point long ago that when people are being disrespectful to others, they deserve no respect back. The only reason he was so rude to you is because he was 1) already angry and 2) embarrassed (and didn't like being told what to do). So to save face, he threatens you and shows what a tough guy he is. Don't worry, if he's any kind of human, he'll feel quite stupid when he calms down.

[CentralCali]

GI? Why? Anyway, US military have a curfew.

[SeoulShakin]

I know they have a curfew.
As I said, I have friends here who are GI's and they are generally nice guys.

I said GI, because of the military haircut (his male friend's cut was exactly the same), and how he was dressed. Sure, that's a generalization, I'm aware of that, but sometimes they are easy to spot. Plus, I'm close to the Yongsan base.

The curfew does not always stop GI's from being out and getting drunk.
They just go off the streets. Sometimes they go to someone's house and continue drinking, or go to more inconspicuous areas that the MP don't generally check. I've seen it done.

I never said that all GI's behave this way. I know for a fact they don't, and most don't condone the behaviour. That being said, there have been a couple of times when I go to work in the morning, and have seen some young military guys passed out on the subway, taking up the entire elderly/pregnant and disabled sections of seats. The curfew is mostly effective, but there are definitely those who avoid it.

[Faunaki]

Maybe Koreans threaten to slit your throat but you don't know that they are saying that.

It sucks to get threatened by psycho men. Next time pepper spray him and kick him while he's down. Let your dog bite him too for practice. That'll teach him!

Have a wonderful vacation, mine is coming in exactly six hours and thirty minutes.

[ajgeddes]

I hope you start a "friggin Koreans" thread and go on in the same manner next time two of them are loud early in the morning.

[the eye]

[genezorm]

[Scotticus]