tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post3726348564618574395..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: The 1995 subway incidentmatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-38116114183113692612008-03-03T16:14:00.000+09:002008-03-03T16:14:00.000+09:00As one of the people mentioned, I would consider i...As one of the people mentioned, I would consider it a great favor if you removed this from your site. You all to easily forget that when making approaches to prospective employers, names can mean so much. Since it was a bogus arrest to begin with, I would be grateful if you removed all of our names and let it lie in the past where it belongs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-17451280135942565542007-12-15T10:57:00.000+09:002007-12-15T10:57:00.000+09:00Coach Taylor,I'm a "serial embellisher"? On what b...Coach Taylor,<BR/><BR/>I'm a "serial embellisher"? <BR/><BR/>On what basis do you make this claim? Simply by virtue of you not wanting to believe what I said? In the absence of any grounds to even make this claim, because your ass wasn't in the station with me, I'd invite you to a tall glass of STFU. <BR/><BR/>I hope you speak Korean, since the officer said, upon me asking why Nicole's testimony wouldn't be taken and this direct question, "그럼 외국인이면 증언해도 아무 의미 없어요?" He apologized before saying yes, but that I would probably be OK because I had a Korean on my side. When I irritatedly noted that this wasn't fair, and that it shouldn't matter, he said something to the effect of "여기 미국아니잖아요" and how Korea's legal system wasn't quite as developed and was being very apologetic about the whole thing. <BR/><BR/>Point is, no matter how much you think I "mistranslated" or "selectively rephrased" words, or "exaggerated", the ensuing 5-minute conversation after my inquiry was basically him explaining/apologizing for the fact that NO, a foriegner's testimony was simply not going to be given weight in this case. <BR/><BR/>So, I'd like to know, from your extensive experience, or examples from my site, or on the basis of anything, how you can claim me to be a "serial exaggerator" based on anything other than the fact you don't like hearing what I have to say. <BR/><BR/>In fact, this very case is one I've been howling about for years now, but many ignorant asses such as you have been accusing me of "exaggerating" this case or others like it, such as the Shinchon stabbing incident, or the case of the Army doctor killed on the street in 2000, I believe, or the Army officer stabbed by 3 Korean assailants in late 2002. <BR/><BR/>Please tell me – what the sam fuck I would have to "exaggerate" against a backdrop of horrible incidents such as these? Or the several incidents I have myself witnessed in which foreigners were treated as the criminals from the moment police arrived? Or several friends who were victims or direct victims of assault on the streets just this year, one of whom called the police after watching a woman being beaten by an ajussi, did the right and moral thing of reporting it and following him, then was nearly arrested when the police arrived, since they assumed HE had been the culprit?<BR/><BR/>Seriously – and I even have audio tape to corroborate how drunk the man was, how belligerent he was, how smashed out of his gourd he was, yet surely, I "must have done something" to provoke him, right?<BR/><BR/>Given the fact I have witnesses, police officers who were untypically sympathetic to me because I spoke Korean, because the ajussi in question was so belligerent and drunk, because the wait staff could corroborate everything about the story except actually having been outside, or the fact that had I hit him, any number of Koreans would have surely volunteered to show that "justice" was served against the nasty foreigner - what do YOU have to present to show I'm exaggerating?<BR/><BR/>Mistranslating? 한국말을 굉장히 잘하겠네요, 그럼?<BR/><BR/>Rephrasing? Were you there? What aspect of my account sounds unreasonable or unlikely, then?<BR/><BR/>And if you think 1995 was "messed up shit" and there are similar examples from then until now, as well as ample personal and anecdotal evidence in line with this pattern of treatment, why is a simply story of someone being falsely accused by a drunk dick suddenly reminiscent of some wild exaggeration or tall tale?<BR/><BR/>Basically, Coach Taylor, you're just talking out the side of your neck. An ignorant, argumentative, and rude asshole. <BR/><BR/>And since I don't like being called a liar, I won't pull my punches in expressing my intense disdain for you. And I'll tell you to your face if you'd like.The Metropoliticianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11223411497463534748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-25647242783468120662007-12-09T08:21:00.000+09:002007-12-09T08:21:00.000+09:00Metro is a serial embellisher who is probably exag...Metro is a serial embellisher who is probably exaggerating, mistranslating, or selectively rephrasing what the police officer said. But here is Korea, where stupid xenophobic stuff happens, so who knows?<BR/><BR/>But even if he got it exactly right, the case can easily be made that that police officer's statement is in no way official or unofficial practice. It's unhelpful and misleading to make out that it's some sort of universal policy here. There are plenty of real-world examples where a foreigner's testimony was treated with the same weight as a Korean citizen's. I've been involved in several myself, where the Korean ended up getting fined or jailed. <BR/><BR/>But what happened in 1995 was some messed-up shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-623364813123502002007-12-08T18:40:00.000+09:002007-12-08T18:40:00.000+09:00The Korean jindan-seo system of diagnosis is not t...The Korean <I>jindan-seo</I> system of diagnosis is <B>not</B> the same as hospitalization for the relevant period. A doctor is asked to record how long it would take -- with or without medical treatment, with or without hospitalization -- for all effects of the illness or injury to have dissipated. In other words, how long until the affected person is 100%.<BR/><BR/>"Three weeks of treatment" on the <I>jindan-seo</I> means a slight bruise, or an achy finger, where the bruise or ache would have completely gone away after three weeks. It doesn't mean someone was laid up in the hospital for that long.<BR/><BR/>Which makes the hubbub over the 1995 subway incident all the more outrageous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com