Comments on: Gay Subway Oral Sex Video Angers Korean Netizens

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:25:54 +0000

Talk about victim complexes.

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By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:57:08 +0000

“I have had drunks come up and grab me or yell at me on the subway because I am an American. Same for the mentally handicapped who have badgered me to give them money and have grabbed me trying to get me to give them money.”

That’s the most common thing. I was lucky in a way to have come not too long after the aftermath of the mid-90s subway incident and knew I’d never win with the Korean police and knew to “endure” when things like that happened.

But, as the majority of expats who have been in Korea longer than a year say in the K-blogsphere when this stuff comes up —– for every time I’ve had a drunk or mentally ill or just racist Korean cause me a problem, I’ve had 5 more Koreans come up and treat me beyond friendly simply because I was a white guy.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:51:24 +0000

kimchi2000,

I carried around a lot of liters of whole blood and plasma with shock paddles in my bag just in case. Thanks for the concern.

Wasn’t a soldier, though.

By: Disinterested

Disinterested — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:00:42 +0000

I think it’s the fact that it is two guys that is upsetting everyone. I’m not that sexually adventurous but I can remember in college ‘tripping the light fantastic’ in areas that weren’t strickly private. Having decided to take the ‘high road’ I’ll end here before making some pretty obvious puns.

By: ChickenHead

ChickenHead — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:49:22 +0000

I guess somebody should tell the counter-terrorism task force that the guy wasn’t bowing to Mecca.

What a nut job.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:45:09 +0000

GIK, whenever a Korean tries to get money from me, I tell him/her I’ll give him W10,000 if he can get W1,000 from a fellow Korean first. That makes them leave me alone.

Back on topic, suppose this had been a lesbian oral sex video…would the K-netizens still be outraged?

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:33:41 +0000

In response to Brian I don’t see it as anti-gay at all either. I just think it is humorous that a cyber-terrorism department is investigating it.

Jack, LOL

kimchi2000 on the subways I have had a lot of I guess you could call it inconsiderate behavior from Koreans such as people rubbing or poking my stomach to see if I’m fat or not, people pulling my arm hair, women bringing their kids over to rub my shaved blonde head. This is just annoying and not malicious.

The worst problems on the subways are the drunks and mentally handicapped. I have had drunks come up and grab me or yell at me on the subway because I am an American. Same for the mentally handicapped who have badgered me to give them money and have grabbed me trying to get me to give them money. However, I speak enough Korean to ask for assistance from other passengers and each time other passengers were able to mediate the situation.

I can see how something like these incidents could lead to a confrontation with a foreigner new to Korea and not being able to speak the language or understand what is going on and not being able to ask for assistance.

By: kimchi2000

kimchi2000 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:21:03 +0000

usinkorea, how did survive korea? i guess the US army really made u mentally tough. i know understand why u have certain views and attitude towards korea and koreans.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:09:07 +0000

I’ve got a good long one about the very elderly Korean man wearing the traditional white outfit and the big white “dunce” looking hat that was giving a soap-box speech on the subway who switched into very good English and kept yelling about the American devils and Russian Devils and about how my life must be great because I had new shoes (which were about 3 years old) who followed up up the bus and out onto the platform three stops up and so on.

Most of my interesting stories have to do with odd moments with the mentally ill and/or homeless and/or drunk passengers. The mentally ill and homeless were a particular problem if you had to use the subway often, because they spend a lot of time on the trains and in the stations. If you were going to have to take trains and subways frequently in Korea, you had to learn how to spot them and reposition yourself.