Apparently an American diplomat (with Homeland Security) has fled South Korea under charges of bilking a Korean woman out of 194,000 USD, according to Associate Press. If convicted, he would have ten years to devote to learning Korean etiquette.
Homeland Security Employee Flees South Korea?
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I seriously wonder if this U.S. official is a Korean-American…
i was thinking the same… how do they think they’ll catch this guy unless they release a name and picture… The Philippines is an easy place to get lost in.
He’s not. MSN was less coy with the details.
I seriously wonder why you seriously wondered that…
seouldout,
Because it’s hard for Koreans to trust foreigners right off the bat without some sort of point of contact. If the offical had been Korean American, there may have been at least some language or clan affiliation for him to leverage. However, the MSN article that seokso had provided appears to give some sort of answer. It appears that the money in question was given to her when her American husband died. Perhaps the U.S. official knew the husband somehow?
Have him plead diplomatic immunity then ask Mel Gibson to shoot him
If he really is a diplomat, i don’t see why he’d flee unless he expected the
US to waive his immunity and toss him to the netizens.
Right off the bat, you say? Right off the bat.
Did you fail to read that they knew each other since 2007?
Perhaps there’s something else that skewing your perspective?
WangKon936 quite reasonably presumed that it might be an ethnic affinity fraud or scam, which is a common type of crime and found among many different groups and communities, despite your unctuous intimation that it’s something unique to Koreans.
seouldout,
I think you misinterpret my intentions and my meaning. Honestly, I can’t say that I completely understand what you are trying to say at times.
In my experience, when it comes to money, in order for a Korean to part with their money, there needs to be some form of intimate contact. It could be church affiliations, regional affiliations, in-law/family affiliations, etc. It doesn’t necessarily have to be ethnic affiliations, but it is easier to have an “in” with a Korean’s finances if you are Korean. There are just more chances of having those affiliations.
Minjokjuuija, exactly.
Wait, is Seouldout a non-Korean being vicariously offended on behalf of all Koreans because a Korean-American wondered (before the identity of the suspect became known) whether the perpetrator may have been of Korean ethnicity?
I think I need smelling salts.
If I was a betting man… I’d say seouldout is a non-ethnic Korean.
Smells like a roo to me.
“unctuous”? Time for a dictionary check, grasshopper.
This is the final straw. Diplomats and foreign officials need CBCs and drug tests.
Exactly what they (claim they) were about to do before he fled.
“Unctuous” was exactly what I meant. Not as in smarmy. But as in oily. Like a slime bucket.
It may have been what you meant, but that just proves you don’t know the meaning of the word; you’re just rying to co-opt it to express your extreme disapproval of the authoer’s point of view. By your gloss, I’d say you are unctuous too. But you’re not, as vile as your position is.
Ok. You got me. I don’t know the meaning of the word. I was just trying to co-opt it. I should have just said “oily” or something like that. I don’t know about “extreme disapproval.” I wouldn’t be using “oily” to express extreme disapproval. There are different and far harsher words for that purpose. As for my position here, I think it’s basically correct. I don’t really have a problem with seouldout’s views here nor do I blame him. After all, only a part, if at all, of the motivating factors behind expressing such views is willful, deliberate, and conscious.
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