These Korean “security” thugs are an integrated network of homeless hires, local criminals, churches, citizen watch groups, police, intelligence, corporations, and government. Korea is a Research and Development testing ground for Directed Energy Weapons, and COINTEL programs. There is alot of money to be made by this multi-leveled operation. It’s the new police of the Market State called Korea, Inc. The source of the infamous Korean micro-wave organized stalking teams. They will be the enforcers of the Eminent Domain disputes that will arise once the canal project commences.

Anyway, I guess the police are too busy busting pot smoking foreigners - in between naps and coffee and smoke breaks - to play any sort of role, both when it comes to upholding laws pertaining to street vending and laws as they relate to people assaulting the vendors.

#21 - Thanks for the Bucheon thug link, bulgasari. I really like living in the city, but as the multitude of black sedans and tattoo-decorated guys at my gym might suggest, there are more than a few shady characters in the cultural mecca that is Bucheon.

I’ve seen guys get the crap kicked out of them back home for doing a lot less than what that monkey did to her.

“There were angry protests against the forced removal from the stadium, resulting in injuries during a scuffle with people hired by the city government.”

Of course, those people had gone through that before, when they were cleared out of Cheonggyecheon in November of 2003, as a Joongang Ilbo article titled “Outnumbered, merchants go down fighting” relates:

“Although violence was anticipated and 4,500 riot policemen were on hand, the battle was an uneven one. The roustabouts hired by the city government numbered about 3,500, facing 250 merchants.”

There’s a video here:
http://www.nodong.com/zero/vie.....amp;no=125

I guess “roustabouts” has given way to
“people hired by the city government”. There was a similar story from Ilsan a few months ago where a vendor committed suicide after being assaulted by one of these city government hirees.

@ 1: Bucheon’s thugs appear prominently in the 1988 documentary “Sanggyedong Olympics” after the people kicked out of Sanggye-dong bought land in and tried to build housing in the part of Gogang-dong south of the Gyeongin expressway. Their temporary housing was torn down because the Olympic flame was going to pass by there on the expressway. Most of the documentary can be viewed here:
http://video.mgoon.com/784407

My favorite part was where their possessions were guarded by gangsters so they couldn’t reclaim them, and then the city charged them with, essentially, ‘littering’. Bucheon, city of culture!

You notice in the video when he punched/kicked the halmoni, he was wearing a black jacket thingy. Then, when they go to find him, he was wearing a red shirt.
Looks like he pulled off the jacket for his different colored undershirt in the hopes that he could blend into the crowd.

Apparently, we now know he was “on the job”, so he just couldn’t run away.

He deserves a good thumping for that stunt!