The Marmot’s Hole

14 Comments

1. railwaycharm
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

   Can’t be true…. there is no crime unless it is perpetrated by whitey longnose.

2. James
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 6:22 pm | Permalink

   What qualifies as a “sex crime”?

3. Maekchu
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 7:37 pm | Permalink

   Everyone knows Koreans do not commit sex crimes….or any deviant crimes for that matter. However white collar crime, political corruption and embezzlement are considered positive quality traits.

4. seouldout
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 7:49 pm | Permalink

   What qualifies as a “sex crime”?

   One where the guy doesn’t have enough money to pay off his victim.

5. captbbq
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 8:03 pm | Permalink

   What?! that it? 6 lines? 66 words?!

   No boo-hoo sob story with pictures of the victims beaten up wrapped in bloody bandages, laying at the hospital with their parents crying screaming for justice, no “in-depth” analysis, no rehashing of historical events, no demonizing of the perpetrators?

   “hey, by the way, 1,022 sex crimes, three years, our soldiers… yup…. back to your regularly scheduled coverage of hating way-gooks.”

6. captbbq
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 8:06 pm | Permalink

   … also…. with a nearly all male army (except for a few NCOs and Officers) what am I to make of this 20% figure?

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7. Darin
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 9:22 pm | Permalink

   James:

   What qualifies as a “sex crime”?

   See your icon for an example

8. hardyandtiny
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

   I guess everyone in the Korean military is called a soldier, right?

   And….there are relatively very few women in the Korean military and 20% of the crimes are in the military. That’s not good.

9. cm
   Posted October 26, 2006 at 10:25 pm | Permalink

   Actually 1022 sex crimes out of 650,000 man powered military is remarkbly and extremely low.

   I also want to know what constitutes ’sex crimes’. Does that include getting caught with prostitutes and adultery?

10. cm
    Posted October 26, 2006 at 10:28 pm | Permalink

    “Everyone knows Koreans do not commit sex crimes….or any deviant crimes for that matter.”

    The article said 1022 Koreans committed sex crimes while they were stationed in a military unit. The news article didn’t say “everyone knows Koreans do not commit sex crimes”.

11. SomeguyinKorea
    Posted October 27, 2006 at 1:05 am | Permalink

    Cm, it’s actually quite high. By doing a few easy calculations, you’ll find that 1022 sex crimes for 650000 Korean troups is rather high when you compare that to the total of 116 crimes (murder, sex crimes, etc.) per year commited by the 50000 strong USFK personel.

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12. madne0
    Posted October 27, 2006 at 5:39 am | Permalink

    SomeguyinKorea: Better brush up on your math
    1022 crimes for 650000 troops equals, roughly 1 crime per 640 soldiers. 116 crimes per 50000 troops equals (again, roughly) 1 crime per 450 soldiers. So, the crime rate is about 30% higher for US soldiers.

13. austin
    Posted October 27, 2006 at 7:06 am | Permalink

    When the Korea Herald or Korea Times quotes figures about “Crimes” commited by “Foreigners”, it seems it’s definition of “Crimes” includes traffic offences (speeding, parking tickets) and it’s definition of “Foreigner” includes any Korean who has had residency status outside of Korea. Finally, the reporting of sex crimes in Korea is apparently extremely low. Case in point, although hardly a sex crime. my Korean wife was acosted by one of the DDD workers, right IN FRONT OF 2 cops, she made a scene, did they step in, make enquiries. NAH. Too busy daydreaming.

14. SomeguyinKorea
    Posted October 27, 2006 at 7:50 am | Permalink

    madne0, thanks for the rather pathetic attempt at being condescending.

    That’s 1022 for sex crimes only. The numbers for the USFK (116 crimes) is for all crimes commited by them, sexual or of other nature. Obviously, Korean soldiers don’t only commit crimes of sexual nature. Considering the fact that most crimes commited by USFK personel isn’t of sexual nature, you can see that the number of sex crimes commited by South Korean soldiers (and, ostensibly, the number of crimes of all type) is relatively high when compared to the number of such crimes commited by USFK personel.

    To take it one step further…A few years ago, after a little bit of digging, I found that in spite of the government’s alarmist claims that the number of crimes foreigners was on the rise (the Korean papers made it sound as if there was a foreigner waiting behind every corner, awaiting their next Korean victims), Korean govenrment statistics showed that foreigners were almost 3 times less likely to commit crimes while in Korea than Koreans.