Hide the women and children! Foreigner crime is on the rise:
With the number of crimes committed by foreigners increasing rapidly, more local people are becoming victims, a ruling party lawmaker claimed during the parliamentary audit and inspection of the National Policy Agency yesterday.
According to police statistics, the number of foreign criminals in Korea has been recording more than 20 percent annual growth. The number stood at about 3,400 in 2000 to 4,300 in 2001, 5,200 in 2002, and to 6,100 last year.
More than 5,000 foreigners were arrested during the first seven months of this year, an increase of 84 percent growth from the same period last year.
For five main crimes - murder, robbery, rape, theft and violence - the percentage of crimes committed by foreigners increased sharply from 0.66 percent in 2002, to 0.96 percent in July of this year.
Among the 7,550 crimes committed by foreigners from the period January through August, up to 85 percent were directed toward Koreans, victimizing local people, the agency said.
Oh dear, that is bad. However, I’m not sure what to think about this:
Rep. Yoo Ihn-tae who had inspected the agency, said that the government needs to immediately come up with plans to prevent crimes by foreigners, especially since it was mostly local people who were becoming victims of these crimes.
Is that to suggest that as long as the foreigners are killing, raping, and stealing from one another, it’s fine?
Anyway, you’ve been warned, so if you’re Korean and should see me walking about, get the hell out of there — I’m a statistical outrage waiting to happen!
But be careful — wherever your run, make sure there are no middle-aged folk around:
The number of criminals in their 40s increased during the 2001-2003 period, due mainly to the current economic slump.
According to a report for the National Assembly inspection submitted Monday to Rep. Park Ki-choon of the ruling Uri Party by the National Police Agency, those between 40 and 49 years old accounted for 28 percent of the total 242,850 cases, up from 26.7 percent in 2002 and 25.6 percent in 2001, reflecting the difficult realities of today’s middle-aged Koreans.
“Those in their 40s should have a pivotal position in Korean society. It’s a pretty serious problem,” Rep. Park said.
Jesus, with all these foreigners and middle-aged folk roaming the land committing enormity upon enormity upon the law-abiding citizens of the Republic of Korea, we’re going to need Korean Robocop pretty soon to clean this place up.
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Yeah I read that article earlier and was expecting someone to point that out. I agree it’s pretty badly written but probably reflect the general malformed mentality in Korea (example: the attitude that ‘more and more victims of foreigner crimes are Koreans so we must do something about it’ - crimes by foreigners on foreigners don’t count nor does it register).
It talks about “foreigners” committing crimes but this part:
["A police agency official told the Korea Herald that most of these criminals were illegal visitors who are suffering desperately from economic hardship and having a difficult time adjusting to Korean society."]
suggests that the article is really targetting foreigners from China, South and South East Asia who are working in 3-D industries.
As you may know, the police are scaring the bejeezus out of the public in Japan, too. A few major crimes committed by Chinese people (the murder of a family, etc) and some questionable statistics drummed up by the authorities have got everyone in a tizzy about the Chinese. White people are still OK though, it looks like.
Not on Okinawa… theres another case of a U.S. military rape thats coming to the forefront.
About the Korean Robocop, I suppose they could always ask for the tangerine-wielding NKPA females in your previous post.
Of course the “foreigner crimes” are rising. What do you expect when there are more foreigners? No mention in the story about that.
Speaking of scare-mongering…
A few months ago I spotted a Yomiuri Weekly magazine that featured a “Tokyo Crime Map” on the cover. Basically it was a guide for the oh-so-innocent Japanese who may wander into the oh-so-dangerous “foreign” districts of Tokyo.
I was thinking about purchasing the magazine to translate the article when my gaijin friend I was with suggested that I should steal it.
In the end we just took a couple quick snaps of it that you can see if you click the following links:
Gaijin Crime Map: Cover
Gaijin Crime Map: Map
They even have books on foreigner crime areas? That’s amazing!
For me, this was the funniest part: “the percentage of crimes committed by foreigners increased sharply from 0.66 percent in 2002, to 0.96 percent in July of this year.” Oh my god! 0.66% to 0.96%! Foreigener crime is a raging wave threatening to engulf Korea!
In my MBA class here during a discussion, asked me what advice I would briefly give to improve Korea.
“Just this: Koreans have to start seeing foreigners as a resource to be used, rather than a threat to be controlled”.
Zdunk - I don’t think “resource to be used” is a good statement. How about “foreigners are your partners in success”? Too often English teachers, 3D workers and others are treated as resources to be used and then discarded when done.
This kind of article has been printed every single year I have been in Korea. There was an awesome article in an editorial written by a foreigner a few years ago showing the foreign crime rate is MUCH lower than the Korean crime rate and that it is foreigners that should be affraid of Koreans.
Re #9 I agree but I wouldn’t even say resource. I would say prostitute. Take for example teaching at a hagwon:
1. It is believed anyone can do it if you have the right equiptment.
2. That if you do something for pay, you should be willing to do it for free.
3. That if you do agree to do something special for someone, this service should be provided for anyone who is willing to pay.
4. That if you do it 8 hours a day, you should be able to do it for a few more.
5. That being asked on the street, “how much for an hour?” is a reasonable question.
6. That you will be punished for any unhappy clients.
7. When it is all said and done you are there to make the pimp happy, not the john
8. That you are replaceable, by yet another fool tricked into thinking that this time, things will be different.
Is it a crime to love korean women??? drbedroom.com