Comments on: Koreans Use Drugs More than Foreigners, But Canucks Still Potheads

By: Hey, Those Don’t Look Like Tomatos | The Marmot's Hole

Hey, Those Don’t Look Like Tomatos | The Marmot's Hole — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:41:12 +0000

[...] of Korean students returning to Korea from overseas study. They allegedly sold their product to the usual suspects — foreign English teachers, Korean high school students who have studied abroad, and club [...]

By: chiamattt

chiamattt — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:51:19 +0000

The post confirmed what I have always thought. Nigerians are smart. Dealers don’t use their products.

Anyway, I tend to think this blog is irrationally anti-drug for the simple reason that being neural-drug would be ‘bad’.

I have read this blog for almost six years and I have read a few comments regarding poppies growing in public gardens, and ‘when tigers smoked’ and all that. I’d really be interested in reading a post regarding the history of pot and opium in Korea. I really would. I have a feeling its not all that alien to the population…and that the illegality of it is simply an extension of US policy.

By: pawikirogi

pawikirogi — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:22:22 +0000

hmm, shall we talk about the sentencing disparities that existed between powdered and rock cocaine? life’s unfair, isn’t it, gentlemen?

how’s that for a tu cocky argument? interesting how people the world over can live with their own hypocrisy.

oh, and, koreans don’t go after koreans who toke? really? i think you should look up ‘cho yong pil’.

‘Well, like I’ve said in the past, you guys are the niggers of Korea…’ netizen kim

it’s rather rich and ironic, isn’t it? glad to see someone else has noticed.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:08:29 +0000

There’s also the question of whether they catch more Canadians because there is something innately xenophobic and/or political in the manner in which investigations are chosen.

Want to cause trouble to Chinese imports? Crackdown on the hundreds of illegal food stalls and you’ve got yourself a nice newspaper article about the unhygienic conditions in which Chinese foodstuffs are sold.

By: MrMao

MrMao — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:41:22 +0000

Well, I guess you reactionary American squareheads and Korea were just made for each other.

By: NathanB

NathanB — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:09:12 +0000

I’m not quite sure why, but my post (current one) is not showing up in the trackbacks. Essentially, I think there is a possibility that Korean Immigration may be doing a good job at ferreting out many would-be teachers who enjoy drugs! (Where I live, it seems like the vast majority of white folks in this age bracket are toking up.)

In any case, good work, Robert (& GI Korea).

By: Netizen Kim

Netizen Kim — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:10:24 +0000

Well, like I’ve said in the past, you guys are the niggers of Korea.

By: user-81

user-81 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:00:40 +0000

“Herod — That was funny as hell. Thanks.”

Even if it was supposed to be a joke, Herod may be on to something. Maybe the drug enforcement authorities with arrest quotas to fill see English teachers as an easy source of arrests: They’re easy to find and on average you can catch one for every 100 specimen jars used.

After that their immigration status can be used as a weapon to get them to flush out their pot-smoking buddies. Easy peasy.

Meanwhile, the toking ajummas and the speed racer taxi drivers are watching all this go on from their windows, realizing the cops will never touch them.

By: user-81

user-81 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:52:59 +0000

“That is because Nigerians are mostly Muslim and have an international reputation for being conscientious in their criminal undertakings, meaning they are quite professional in committing crime.”

Nigerians are only half Muslim.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:47:57 +0000

Herod — That was funny as hell. Thanks.