By Good luck with enforcing this:
Seoul City is set to levy fines for the spitting of chewing gum on the streets as part of its efforts to clean up the city ahead of the Group of 20 summit to be held here in November, city officials said Monday.
The city government has revised its ordinance to impose fines of 30,000 won ($26) to 50,000 won on anyone caught spitting chewing gum on Seoul streets, officials said. Enforcement of the new rule and actual amounts of fines will vary from district to district within the capital.
Under the city’s past ordinance, throwing cigarette butts and litter alone were punishable with a fine.
The government plans to carry on a public campaign through August to refrain people from dropping gum in public places, and will begin a full-fledged crackdown on gum spitters from September, officials said. [Korea Times]
Fortunately for authorities I’m pretty confident the public during the G-20 summit time frame will voluntarily comply with keeping the streets as clean as possible.
10:27 am on June 14th, 2010 1
What about the constant freak'in spitting that goes on.
10:55 am on June 14th, 2010 2
I was walking on a sidewalk downtown yesterday, and sure enough a big puddle of mucus. The sad part…the grass was just 6" to the right. Why on the sidewalk? Oh well, typical.
11:01 am on June 14th, 2010 3
How about the government installs more trash cans?
11:36 am on June 14th, 2010 4
How are they going to find them?
11:48 am on June 14th, 2010 5
When I was there in the 1970's, putting a finger upside ones nose and blowing snot all over was a popular passtime. Am I to believe its improved to chewing gum? Progress.
2:53 pm on June 14th, 2010 6
#5. No, now it's just snotty chewing gum.
/I hear caning works wonders…
3:52 pm on June 14th, 2010 7
>> finger upside ones nose and blowing snot all over
Where I come from, we call that a "country blow". Cause, you know, only fancypants-city-folk would spend good money on kleenex or toilet paper!!
4:00 pm on June 14th, 2010 8
> crackdown on gum spitters from September
WTF‽‽ I can't take it any more — I want to punch the next person I see using "from" when stating a start date. This is NOT proper use of English. It may be technically correct, but NO ONE says this. Unless, of course, the "gum spitters" are originating in a city named September.
Using "from" with dates is appropriate for stating a range, such as "from September to December". Otherwise, it should be "will begin crackdown IN September", as they are not stating a date it will end.
Will English teachers in Korea (or anywhere in Asia) PLEASE start correcting this when you see it? This has got to be one of the most annoyingly pervasive Engrish/Konglish habits.
6:00 pm on June 14th, 2010 9
#8 OK Mike. From July I will begin doing as you ask.
12:08 am on June 15th, 2010 10
OMG, gum, really?! this is dumb, as with everything else for appearance. how about fining those knuckleheads who insist on driving mopeds, motorbikes, and scooters on the sidewalks and ped xings? not to mention creeping & cutting traffic at full red light stops. teach a horse by knocking it in the teeth a few times, it will learn.
9:05 am on July 2nd, 2011 11
8 I think from is used to show beginning in september here