Comments on: Hookers, ganja and stars, oh my!

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:04:03 +0000

If you are looking for a quick deportation, play with the weed. I have heard of dealers singing like birds when they are in the cop shop. You will get a knock at your door and the dong parri will piss test you. Happy trails!

By: hycin

hycin — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:36:14 +0000

But slim…did you inhale?

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:11:08 +0000

Remort!

“A big, phat-ass joint, and soju, then a full-course bulgogi meal!”

That sounds just like my evening yesterday. Except that it was in Vancouver, and it was kimchi jigae and mandu, not bulgogi.

The other difference from Korea was that the joint was cheap — unlike Korea — and the soju cost $15!

By: Remort

Remort — Wed, 17 May 2006 22:42:43 +0000

Korea needs some head shops! You can walk up to the counter and order an Oz of blueberry, and an Oz of Maui-wowie — but only for medical problems. This would definitely take care of the problems obtaining new “English teachers” coming to Korea. A big, phat-ass joint, and soju, then a full-course bulgogi meal!

By: slim

slim — Wed, 17 May 2006 19:28:56 +0000

I’ve tried marijuana 37,614 times since 1975 and I fail to understand what the young folks see in it.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:06:55 +0000

The Korean police do NOT understand drugs in any way. I had a few friends get busted for hash in Korea. They were given a two year suspended sentence and fined. The ridiculous thing is that they were fined 10,000 won for everytime they actually smoked the “hashish.”

So in their statements when they pled guilty, they had to state how many times they smoked up. One guy said 5 times, the other said 3 times, and one said something like 7 times. All of this was documented and they were fined accordingly.

The entire thing was completely ridiculous.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 17 May 2006 07:22:43 +0000

Hilarious. “I smoked pot seven times,” “I smoked pot four times,” did they write in their diaries every time they got high? Most potheads can’t rememember how to get to White Castle when they have the munchies, let alone exactly the number of spliffs they smoked. “It is a nonsense” as the KT often says.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Wed, 17 May 2006 06:58:43 +0000

Unfortunate they closed down the comments on that item…some were quite funny.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 17 May 2006 06:57:39 +0000

Well, here’s the Korean Yonhap piece—be sure to give us a full review.

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Wed, 17 May 2006 06:46:30 +0000

What i dislike about this piece in the Korea Times is there’s never enough detail given to allow me to find the place after reading the story. The vernacular scandal sheets always give enough details, right down to the name of the place (like “Room Salon ‘D’ at the corner of Fifth and Elm not only has girls with very squeezable breasts, but also will paint your car while you wait, all for the price of W950,000″). That makes me think the scandal sheets are engaging in “advertorials” in exchange for payments to the reporters — just like our law office has recently been asked to “contribute” to a leading daily. If you see a story praising Seoul Law Group for its innovative and excellent lawyers, know that such a description is in fact true — but also be aware that just like the breathless true descriptions of scandalous services in Kangnam room salons, we weren’t picked at random.