SeoulPodcast #33: Protecting Yourself
Podcast December 21st, 2008
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Sledgehammers. Don’t leave for parliament without one.
PANELIST
Panelists: Michael Hurt (Scribblings of the Metropolitician, Feetman Seoul)
MAIN TOPIC
Tips to Avoid Being Assaulted in Korea
EXPAT COMMUNITY
Donation information, and sad news, for injured Mokpo teacher Nerine Viljoen.
NOTE: Nerine Viljoen’s family has requested that donations no longer be given.
Family of Bill Kapoun helping Nerine Vilijoen.
NEWS AND STUFF
Washington Post on Koreans’ changing attitudes toward American beef.
LG’s and Samsung’s Cell Phone Monopoly to End… iPhones and Blackberrys on their way to Korea
Korean Family Killed in San Diego F/A-18 Crash
Update on the Cheongju rape case.
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHAA?
Korean Baseball Star Arrested for Seduction
I Guess She Got an “A” in Plagiarism
Government’s English Policy Failing to Curb Hagwon Spending
Adoption Abused for Enrollment in Schools at US Military Camp
Playboy article shows up in a Seoul National University practice test.
30% of drivers don’t use seat belts.
TIME WASTERS OF THE WEEK
From listener Hwa Young
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hwayoungjung/272282784/sizes/l/in/set-72057594096725278/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hwayoungjung/170957327/in/set-72057594096725278/
PLUGS
GoToMyPC
Ex-Pat Living (The Korea Herald)
ESL Planet Recruiting
SEOUL Magazine
ZenKimchi.com
KOTESOL
MUSIC
Main Theme — Ben McPherson – “2wksnyc”
ExPat Community — Deyo – “Retro90210fun”
News — satya – “Silk Route Album Mix”
Things That Make You Go Whaa? — cjacks – “Candyland”
Time Wasters of the Week — EV Boyz – “Kickin’ It in Geumchon”
Byron Scullin
Tripudio
Persian Paladin
The Eternal
Victor Stellar
DJ TopShelf
Kathy Reynolds
Chris Townsend
Outside
Father Rock
deadpan
ellis reed
Adam Schmitt
Anomie Enemy
KlassicK Productions
Platinum Life Productions
Ray Sr.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
That G-string quote was awesome!
December 21st, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I was scared to do laundry for months when I came across that thang.
December 21st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Things I have seen out my back window. Or heard in my apartment.
October 2007: A Korean couple in my apartment fighting two nights in a row. On the third day they were kicked out. (Thank you landlord) It really sounded like the guy was beating her.
December 2007: A few apartment buildings away a guy was attacking his old lady with a toaster.
July 2008: A guy on his roof was killing a dog with a hammer. My girlfreind called the cops and they arrested him. He was an old guy who was sick and wanted to make soup. The kicker, he stole the dog.
Last Tuesday: more neighbors in my apartment were fighting. 18s and son of 18s flying everywhere. I saw out my window this dude smack his woman in the face, so I yelled at them to stop. They looked at me, then continued fighting. Another neighbor who owns a small grocery store was watching, by this time. It then started to stop.
I’m really getting kind of tired of this stuff.
December 21st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Where do you live, Jim? I’ve only seen a couple of incidents where I wanted to get involved (and almost did), and I’ve lived here for 5 years. Although I’ve been in Daegu (and in the more affluent areas of Daegu), I wonder if things are different in the countryside, or if most of the crazies live mainly in Seoul…
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 am
I feel for ya, Jim. I heard that stuff regularly, too. In the little pocket of “paradise” I live in now, the most noise I get is from the elementary school and sagwa trucks. Sometimes some “gangsters” shot fireworks below our place, but we’ve had little crazy domestic disturbances.
I think it’s a good thing that you yelled at fucks who were fighting in public. That is one of those things that I just won’t sit by and excuse with “oh, that’s just part of their culture.”
No, it’s low class redneck trailer trash behavior, and they should be called on it.
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
I live in Jinju. Actually I’m perfectly happy with the city. It is quite nice. My apartment is okay too, it is in a convenient location near by a large road, down the street from the city hall. I have lived there for about a year and a half. It’s just the few times when crazies do things. Also to the credit of my landlord (Who also lives in the apartment building, actually within a few feet from my place.) they don’t really tollerate that kind of bad behaviour as well.
I didn’t really yell at them, I said from the fourth floor 야이마 하지마. Still it’s a 4 floor apartment building that has families living in it, we really don’t neet that.
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 am
Oh and this podcast was helpful. I won’t call the cops, I’ll just let my gilrfriend do that (if she’s at my place) cuz the cops were pretty good when they were arresting that guy who was killing the dog. She was smart and took a video of it.