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A group of female rescuers run along Haeundae Beach in Busan yesterday before participating in life-saving training. Female maritime police officers were dispatched at the beach for the first time yesterday in order to handle female-related incidents and help prevent sexual harassment at the beach. By Song Bong-geun
Via the Joong Ang Ilbo.
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2:17 pm on July 7th, 2011 1
That’s just wrong…
6:27 pm on July 7th, 2011 2
From the archery team to the beach patrol, Koreans have demonstrated time and time again their incredibly poor tastes in hats.
Why does everyone have to look like the yogurt lady?
7:13 pm on July 7th, 2011 3
Apparently, there’s a lot of saline but no silicone in Korean version.
7:44 pm on July 7th, 2011 4
#2, agree, the hats have got to go!
#3, Hahaha…
As for me, I wonder if they recruited women with no possibility of getting hit on by beach goers or other rescue personnel????
7:55 pm on July 7th, 2011 5
That pic does not fill me with confidence that any of them could pull anyone out of the surf.
10:54 pm on July 7th, 2011 6
Two words: Ajumma Anderson.
11:08 pm on July 7th, 2011 7
They’re in step: left foot down, right foot up; left hand up, right hand down. Wearing police pants with reinforced crotch. Very beautiful. Features like this keep me coming back to the ROK Drop.
3:12 am on July 8th, 2011 8
I really appreciate how the maritime police harass and intimidate able swimmers like me who venture a little bit further out to stay out of the crowd. It makes the whole experience so much more totalitarian.
3:35 am on July 8th, 2011 9
Teadrinker,
I see you, too, have experienced the wonders of the Tweeters.
Tweet… tweet… tweeeeeeeeeet… tweet.tweet.tweet!
Fortunately, I can endure listening to tweeting on their funking whistles longer than they can endure blowing them… but just barely.
Eventually, they DO give up.
On the other hand, average Koreans kinda do need a nanny (state) in the water.
Last year, a couple of guys drowned in one of the dammed-up rivers I go boating in. You can stand up in much of it.
They were both drunk, they went out in a rubber boat, they had no life vests, one dorked around and fell in, the other one tried to save him… neither of them could swim.
That is such a mighty chain of failure at each step, they obviously require babysitting.
But I don’t. And I hate the Tweeters.
5:42 am on July 8th, 2011 10
#9,
If only they used whistles only and stayed at a safe distance…They roar up close to the swimmers, video cameras cameras in hand as if to suggest that we were doing something illegal. It’s intimidation and abuse of power, pure and simple.
5:56 am on July 8th, 2011 11
#9 “Darwin Award” winners?
5:57 am on July 8th, 2011 12
Drinking is far too important to mix with any other activity.
6:28 am on July 8th, 2011 13
I took a trip to Hyundai Beach a couple of summers ago. My hotel room on the 8th floor overlooked the beach. I grew up on the beaches of Florida and learned to swim as an infant. Granted a storm had passed the night before, but as I looked out my room, I think I said “holy crap” when I saw the rip-currents. Hyundai Beach has got to be one of the deadliest beaches because of that current. As I said before, I have always known how to swim and have never feared the water, but I certainly respect what I saw and hope those women can swim like hell – but they don’t look like the strong swimmers I know.
7:34 am on July 8th, 2011 14
Lemmy – if you’re referring to the big beach down in Busan, it’s pronounced “Hae-un-dae.” Similar to the car brand, but different.
8:31 am on July 8th, 2011 15
#13,
Haeundai (or whatever is the right romanization is) in Pusan? Yeah, definitely. I was there last summer (might have been the same hotel you stayed at) when the a big storm hit. The swells were quite something, must have been at least 15 or 20 feet high. There was no damned way I could have ever been tempted to set foot on the beach.
PS. I also grew up by the ocean (our cottage is a minute’s walk from the beach).
8:40 am on July 8th, 2011 16
“they don’t look like the strong swimmers I know”
Yeah, I had remarked that. I know people who did marathon swims in the northernmost part of the North Atlantic, no wetsuits. They definitely don’t look anything like them.