Wait a second… has anyone actually been kidnapped, or is this just rumor mongering?
Wouldn’t Want to Be Kidnapped by a Suspicious Foreign Female Duo…
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Is that part of the SK economy is subject to trade barriers to protect domestic flesh peddlers?
Isn’t it fabulous to live in a city where this constitutes news?
@1 – Heaven forbid these two should put the booking/nightclub thugs out of business.
“No official investigation has yet been launched on this possible criminal possibility”.
How about this stupid journalistic stupidity?
The title of the story was “Foreign female duo arouses suspicions in downtown Seoul,” which seems like a legitiment story and title. There is nothing stupid about it, Granfalloon. I wish there were more stories warning of such suspicious people and possible scams, or worse.
Yes, Person 43, it is nice to live in a country where the news is not filled with murders, muggings, and terrorist attacks.
Well, Mr. Bevers, I’ll admit to having jumped the gun a bit. But what one person considers “suspicious” another might call “normal.” Consider this quote from the story:
“It is a highly probable theory that they are cat’s paws for human trafficking organizations, targeting at kidnapping and selling off women in their 20s.”
You might think this quote is from the police, or civic authorities, or perhaps an expert on human trafficking. But no, it’s from “a 29-year-old woman living in Seoul.”
If a reporter could cherry-pick quotes, I’m sure that they could find some grandma who swears that the streets are crawling with rape gangs at all hours. This is why reporters shouldn’t cherry-pick quotes. What did the actual authorities say when asked about this incident? That no official investigation has yet been launched.
As you yourself say, it’s nice to live in a country where the news isn’t all murders and muggings. But living with news that threatens such things as present and imminent is almost as bad. When violent crime declined in the US in the 90s, the number of violent crimes reported on TV increased. Now THAT ought to be a crime.
To kidnap a girl from Seoul to transport her out of Korea to a different city would be a logistical nightmare. Far better to kidnap a girl on vacation or better yet, grab a Nork on the run. Methinks this duo had recently seen the movie Taken on dvd. Point said–if I wanted to kidnap a girl anywhere in the world at pretty much any given time–I see very little difficulty in doing so and I imagine that to be the case for any strong guy with a degree of street smarts. Taking her out the country would be another matter.
Yes, the kidnap/human trafficking thriller “Taken” is being played regularly on cable now.
While what these two girls were doing may seem suspicious and probably was, I think it is really jumping the gun to say they were looking to kidnap and traffic women.
As has been said, it seems like a logistical nightmare and overly risky plan to try and kidnap a woman from the busy streets of Seoul and transport her to who knows where. It just doesn’t add up.
The author of this outstanding news piece has a pretty funny email address: tellme
They’re foreign, you say? Oh well they MUST be people traffickers, and not, say, Jehovah’s Witnesses or born-again Christians.
I’ve seen some shit in my time here in Korea but this has to be the worst piece of news reporting I’ve ever encountered.
All that is required to resolve this matter would be a posting of the girl’s pircture. Believe me the experience levels of our fellow posters would be way more than enough to put a price tag on the said woman. I highly doubt she rates high enough to warrant the price of a plane ticket–she might be surprised what the free market values her body at versus what she believes her body to be worth. For some reason, a lot of women believe themselves to be worth the effort of two persons to travel to a foreign country–tie her up–smuggle her out and then recondition her to serve as some rich man’s sex slave . . . when it is pretty obvious that market forces and lax social values have provided a glut of willing sex providers.
Breaking News:
“Suspicious Foreigner Bumps into Local Resident on Subway”
“I knew something was not right when the foreigner apologized,” reports the 29-year-old woman living in Seoul. “He had no reason to engage me in conversation, so I was immediately suspicious. I’ve been more alert since that encounter and have noticed other foreigners doing the same thing. I worry that there might be a gang of them. We all need to take extra precautions.”
Jeffery Hodges
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“Then, they urgently caught my sleeve, at which I became scared,” she said. “What urgent needs could two harmless tourists have, unless they had other pretexts?”
funny
Oh good, so I wasn’t the only one who thought this article was pretty funny.
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