By It doesn’t seem this incident with the US Ambassador was all that serious so hopefully this discipline of the police officers isn’t all that serious either:
Two mid-ranking police officers have been disciplined for failing to protect the U.S. ambassador to Seoul from demonstrators during a public event held in Seoul earlier this week, police said Friday.
The disciplined officers, whose identities were withheld, are accused of failing to stop a group of anti-American protesters from throwing plastic bottles at the car carrying U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Kathleen Stephens. The incident happened as Stephens was leaving a ceremony to celebrate the unveiling of a statue of former South Korean president Syngman Rhee in central Seoul on Thursday, police said.
Stephens was not injured in the incident.Two mid-ranking police officers have been disciplined for failing to protect the U.S. ambassador to Seoul from demonstrators during a public event held in Seoul earlier this week, police said Friday.
The disciplined officers, whose identities were withheld, are accused of failing to stop a group of anti-American protesters from throwing plastic bottles at the car carrying U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Kathleen Stephens. The incident happened as Stephens was leaving a ceremony to celebrate the unveiling of a statue of former South Korean president Syngman Rhee in central Seoul on Thursday, police said.
Stephens was not injured in the incident. [Yonhap]
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10:31 am on August 26th, 2011 1
A lot of times, the “discipline” in these cases doesn’t amount to much (a couple of days off from work, for example) and is mostly just a matter of the Chief of Police being able to publicly say, “I disciplined them.”
11:01 am on August 26th, 2011 2
Of all the wrong people to protest against is Ms. Stephens. She’s one of the staunchest friends of South Korea that Korea has known. I think those nut bags are pro-North Korean agitators or unemployed losers.
11:03 am on August 26th, 2011 3
And sorry about that, Americans, we have our share of crazy people.
11:05 am on August 26th, 2011 4
It is hard to believe they were disciplined twice… and that the bottles were thrown twice… and the ambassador was not injured twice… while leaving the statue twice… that was unveiled twice.
I think there is an echo in here… here… ere… ere… re… re… e… e…
12:14 pm on August 26th, 2011 5
Perhaps this will help her understand that America needs to LEAVE the Koreans to the other Koreans. I can hope
5:17 pm on August 26th, 2011 6
“A lot of times, the “discipline” in these cases doesn’t amount to much (a couple of days off from work, for example) and is mostly just a matter of the Chief of Police being able to publicly say, “I disciplined them.”” – Guitard
Guitard, they just got fired. It’s in the paper. Tells you how much you know about anything.
5:38 pm on August 26th, 2011 7
What is the point of throwing bottles at her car?
5:52 pm on August 26th, 2011 8
sumgopsally 6, the point of throwing bottles at her car is to show contempt for a lady that even Tom respects.
In my humble opinion, throwing things exceeds the bounds of civic discourse.
6:21 pm on August 26th, 2011 9
Didn’t someone hit GW Bush with a thrown shoe?
6:33 pm on August 26th, 2011 10
Yes, Nobody 9, and the guy that threw the shoe was punished. Here’s his entry in the repository of all knowledge.
7:32 pm on August 26th, 2011 11
“What is the point of throwing bottles at her car?”
Well, some say it is a crock but it seems it was on their bucket list to give her both barrels in drumming up actions which would jar her into containing her pitcher-perfect jugs which pail in comparison to her tubby can and vial box or maybe they were just on pot which will simply urn them a place in the police philes.
10:42 pm on August 26th, 2011 12
But unveiling a statue of Syngman Rhee? That probably was not the wisest move.
11:24 pm on August 26th, 2011 13
Tom driveled:
I just read through three Korean language articles covering this matter (조선일보, 민중의소리, and 연합뉴스) and all of them say the same thing – they got written reprimand and reassigned.
http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/08/27/2011082700073.html
http://www.vop.co.kr/A00000427167.html
http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/society/2011/08/26/0701000000AKR20110826119151004.HTML
Not ONE word about getting fired.
Getting fired means you are out of job. So in this case – kicked off of the police force.
That’s not what happened. They just got reassigned. It’s a typical Korean face-saving response – an attempt to show that the matter was dealt with harshly – but in reality – the punishment doesn’t even amount to a slap on the hand.
And on top of this – the two guys who got their hands slapped were just mid-level guys at the police station who happened to be the two sorry saps who got stuck with the job of being in charge of security at this event. The leadership at police station didn’t get any kind of reprimand.
So as usual – Tom the wannabe-Korean-Canadian – proves again he doesn’t have a clue how things work in Korea.
3:36 am on August 27th, 2011 14
They were relegated to less important posts in other stations and got demoted. I think that’s a fair punishment. If this had happened in the United States, the policemen wouldn’t have been blamed at all and it would have chalked up to one of those things. Only because this is Korea, there were someones getting scapegoated. So don’t give me that red wine, Guitard.
4:47 am on August 27th, 2011 15
Actually #9, Bush dodged that shoe. He also dodged the SECOND shoe. He was never struck by a shoe. FYI
5:02 am on August 27th, 2011 16
Retired GI,
So what you are saying is…
Bush was never tarnished by sandal.
Hahahahhahahah!
5:18 am on August 27th, 2011 17
Not by “sandal”. I’ll give you that one ChickenHead
6:23 am on August 27th, 2011 18
earlier Tom driveled:
After I pointed out that he’s full of shyt, Tom’s story suddenly changes from “they just got fired” to “they got demoted.”
So Tom – which is it? Fired or demoted? Or are you going to change your story again?
7:01 am on August 27th, 2011 19
“So Tom – which is it? Fired or demoted?”
Both. They got fired from their old positions, and got demoted to their current positions.
7:38 am on August 27th, 2011 20
How does Tom know what would, or wouldn’t happen in the USA?
He doesn’t even know what happens in his own country Korea. He’s the one who doesn’t know anything about anything. This much is known.
“It’s in the paper” is a great line! What they don’t know, they just make up is once again something that holds true and Tom once again proves it.
My guess is that he will change his story.
8:29 am on August 27th, 2011 21
#20: Ummm no, Tom isn’t who you are alleging…