Before I get to the stupider stuff, a piece of useful info: Changgyeonggung Palace will be open until 10pm through May 1. If you’ve got a camera, this is great opportunity.
It appears Youporn won’t be getting much material from Daegu:
Dongbu Police Station in Daegu said 10 men and women were questioned on suspicion of violating a law banning the distribution of pornographic clips through telecommunication networks.
Police said a 23-year-old man, surnamed Kwon, is suspected of having webcast his sexual relations with his girlfriend live using his smartphone last month after signing up with an Internet broadcasting service.
He also filmed the sexual behavior of nine other people and released it in the same way, police said. “Dissemination of pornographic footage via smartphones is subject to punishment,” a police officer said.
Bad news for amateur porn fans, which, if you’re a straight male, you probably are, according to a recent piece in the New York Post.
Meanwhile, politicians and businessmen are concerned that the recent bust of a massage parlour in Yeoui-do could lead to some embarrassment:
Police have recently raided a massage parlor in Yeouido, Seoul, home to the National Assembly and major financial firms, to secure thousands of credit card receipts, scaring customers suspected of paying for sex there.
Investigators from Yeongdeungpo Police Station said Wednesday that they raided the massage parlor last month and confiscated nearly 4,500 credit card receipts.
The shop proved to be one of many massage parlours illegally selling sex. Police believe some politicians, their aides and businessmen are among customers frequenting the business.
The massage parlor is located in the basement of a building just across the street from the parliament building. Its nominal owner and employees were booked for questioning, with police hunting for the actual owner.
Some might find it quite fitting that there’s a place of prostitution right across the street from a parliament. What I don’t get, frankly, is why anybody — especially anybody with a name to protect — would pay for such services with a credit card knowing full-well that’s how the cops make their busts in cases like this.
Oh, and speaking of public servants thinking with their other head, I hope the former Korean consul in Shanghai has a good lawyer:
The wife of a former Korean consul at the Shanghai Consulate General involved in a sex scandal has filed for divorce and alimony of W200 million (US$1=W1,086), it emerged Monday. The diplomat, identified as Huh, resigned over his involvement with a Chinese woman named Deng Xinming after reports said confidential information was leaked to the woman and raised suspicions that she was a “honey trap.”
Huh’s wife, identified as Yoo, originally filed divorce and alimony of W100 million on March 4, but after media reports about the sex scandal she dropped her original suit and later doubled her alimony demand.
Finally, you recall the incident at Chonnam University in which an American teacher charged with assault fled the country before trial? Well, Matt at Gusts of Popular Feeling has more on the matter (including comments in my own comment section I hadn’t seen). And can somebody tell me what the eff the “Gwangju & Jeollanamdo People for Peace and Reunificationand Reunification” are doing getting involved in this case?
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Think of that establishment across the street as a device to filter stupidity out of the National Assembly. Anyone still using a credit card for such services deserves to be taken out of the gene pool.
‘Can somebody tell me what the eff the “Gwangju & Jeollanamdo People for Peace and Reunificationand Reunification” are doing getting involved in this case?’
It looks like they’re getting up to some very traditional Korean left wing ‘rabble rousing’ to me. It wouldn’t be the first time that those types of lunatic ‘progressives’ have exploited a controversial ‘situation’ involving foreigners and Koreans. A lot of Koreans don’t seem to be able to put down that victim card do they? Protesting about the girl who had the argument with the taxi driver is simply in poor taste.
I’m not saying what the American guy did was right, but the facts seem a bit scewed to me. Does Korean have any sort of organisation like the PCC? If it doesn’t it damn well should do, the press here is horrible and make what Faux news get up to look fair and balanced. I’ve never seen a retraction printed by a Korean paper and they get their facts mixed up all the time. British papers (one example) always print apologies or corrections if they get their facts wrong, even if it is a simple misspelling of a name or an incorrect date.
Personally I’d just like to know the facts of this case.
That doesn’t look like an actual group. It seems like some young progressive hot head (probably the brain-dead-looking bawd in the center) rounded up a few geriatrics from the village with the promise of a hot meal in exchange for making a bit of noise. Her antipathy is not driven so much by any genuine feelings of patriotism but rather a dynamically-repressed resentment toward foreigners after being rejected by one-too-many GIs at the local juicy bar she frequented.
Either that it’s a North Korean sleeper cell.
The facts of the case? You’re far too rational, keith. A Korean was hurt, an American was involved. That’s all the information needed, apparently.
Oh, and I almost forgot . . . won’t someone please think of the children!?!?
The bloke did punch a 52-year-old in the face and break his tooth and knee.
A few questions spring to mind:
1. If they paid the full fare, why did the old guy follow them?
2. Details about exactly how the taxi driver manhandled (assaulted?) the woman in question. Grabbing her by the arm is no excuse to smash his face in.
In saying that, I have little to no faith in Korean media reports that involve foreigners in any sort of dispute with locals. I lived in Gwangju for 4 years, and I have very vivid recollections of a good friend getting beaten so severely by a group of about 10 Koreans (including having his head kicked while he was lying unconscious on the ground) that he had a brain hemorrhage. He was with one male friend and 3 females.
The media report the next day (based on police interviews with the guys doing the kicking), had it that half a dozen drunk foreigners went on a rampage in the street, “even assaulting innocent bystanders”. The police didn’t even bother interviewing the foreigners, and there was never any mention of the bloke with blood on his brain in the local rags.
The moral? Don’t punch old people in the face, particularly if you’re a yank in Jeollanamdo.
So, your good friend punched an old person in the face and a brain hemorrhage is what he got for his troubles? If not, your moral does not compute. I think a more sensible interpretations would be, “Don’t be a yank in Jeollado.”
You’re also overlooking the fact that the taxi driver apparently smashed the security door in to get to the woman. If I saw such a thing and decided to intervene, you can bet my blood would be up and I’d be operating under the assumption that the taxi driver was dangerous.
That’s odd, because I’ve seen several printings of errata announcements in Korean newspapers over the years.
Somehow, I doubt your Korean is proficient enough to allow you to (a) read Korean newspapers well enough to know fact from fiction; or (b) identify what in them would be retractions.
In response to “Albinokimchi” post # 47, he/she said…
“He was not actually hurt as bad as he claimed and actually started driving again during the days while staying at the hospital. Can you say insurance fraud? The reporter who covered this story clearly talked with Kim and just reported his story. If there had been any kind of fact checking done you would see that Kim’s knee was not broken. But yes, his tooth was.”
The video clearly shows surgery had been done, however “albinokimchi” says Kim’s knee “wasn’t broken.” I wonder how or why he/she believes that? Obviously, their was an incision made on the kneecap but that could’ve been made to repair an old sports ACL Park, Ji-sung type injury that the Taxi driver had been wanting to get fixed for years.
And why does “albinokimchi” believe the tooth was “broken,” looks like an old chip to me.
# 5 Hoju_saram,
“The bloke did punch a 52-year-old in the face and break his tooth and knee.”
How do you know the taxi driver got punched?
The taxi driver got what was coming to him for breaking the door and touching a woman, if that’s what he did and his tooth hadn’t already been chipped and his knee injury wasn’t an old soccer Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) which he finally decided to get fixed at this opportunistic time.
You’re right; it’s an awful moral. Still, I disagree that yanks should avoid the place. Jeollanamdo definately has an anti-American streak, but I have several (half-a-dozen) American friends who have been living there for years and love it.
Thick skin and a genial personality seems to be the personality trait they all share.
It’s a shame Korean government is so strict on pornography and sex. It’s almost like those radical Islam nations.
I am so sick of seeing these double standards in Korea. Like 조선일보 sometimes remind me of a Japanese fetish porn magazine because there’s so many suggestive photos.
It would be much more efficient to just legalize porn in Korea.
I do wonder why all past Korean porn jockey sites shut down…..
there’s nothing wrong with paying for a massage with your credit card.
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It seems Gwangju & Jeollanamdo People for Peace and Reunification has been around since 2003; I did a bit more digging into their past here.
The knee injury was played up in that MBC report, but according to the statements by the above group, the fractured knee only took two weeks to heal, while the ‘broken tooth’ took eight weeks to heal.
eh. who cares about jeollanamdo or what goes on there? that place sucks and is irrelevant.
as for a, ahem, “massage parlor” in yeouido, i used to live in yeouido, for about a year, and had no idea such establishments existed. but i guess it makes sense since it is both the wall street & washington DC of korea.
Nobody asks why the instructor ran away back to the States instead of accusing the Taxi driver of violence or breakage into home if that had really happened to his girlfriend or coworker.
광주 전남 평화통일을 여는 사람들 is a branch of SPARK (Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea), pretty much pro-NK and China organization. Most Koreans do not know what the organization is and do not go with their wacky proposals.
http://www.spark946.org/bugsboard/lee/mj_english_doing.htm
Actually, it’s quite beautiful (particularly in the spring), the people are wonderfully friendly, and the food is the best on the peninsula. But each to their own, I suppose.
Because it would be irrelevant to “negotiations” of blood money compensation. The circumstances around WHY the taxi driver was injured are meaningless; it only matters that he was injured. The American would still be on the hook for paying up regardless of what the taxi driver did or didn’t do to “justify” the assault.
The taxi driver’s alleged actions would only be of interest to the police should they wish to proceed with criminal proceedings.
Because the PJs get arrested when they come back to Korea? 딸기 and Almond Tease are the two examples that immediately come to mind.
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