Comments on: Are Koreans Really the World’s Worst Drivers?

By: Bobby Ray

Bobby Ray — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:55:08 +0000

I heard some folks traffick drugs and other folks traffick humans but done never heard of anybody traffick signs.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:48:28 +0000

Koreans are the worst drivers . Period .
Koreans cannot use gas and brake pedal , let alone trafick signes .

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By: John in NY

John in NY — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:22:43 +0000

I thought drivers in Turkey were worse. My friend who was stationed there almost became racist against Turks b/c of their driving. Haha.

By: Leon LaPorte

Leon LaPorte — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:34:16 +0000

I can live without jackbooted thugs, US police style.

By: Mr. Kim

Mr. Kim — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:15:46 +0000

#28
I’d rather have people blackmailing traffic violators while making the roads safer rather than having traffic violators continue endangering the lives of innocent pedestrians and other drivers.

#37
My guess is that Dr. Yu is a proctologist because he advocates being a pain in the ass when driving.

By: kangaji

kangaji — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:55:40 +0000

#52: Hideyoshi Toyotomi planned Pearl Harbor?

By: guitard

guitard — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:29:55 +0000

Flunky Brewster wrote:

I would like to see a more serious attitude taken towards traffic enforcement by the Koreaqn police. But, as Dr Yu has explained, no one in the Korean society seems to want that to happen. Obviously nothing will change with this generation of drivers so maybe, in the future, they will finally crackdown on drunk drivers . . .

I’ve driven through many breathalyzer stops set up by the Korean police at night. And they are very strategic in the way they operate them.

By: guitard

guitard — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:28:54 +0000

tom langley wrote:

I was stationed in Korea in 1979-1980 & I had lots of taxi rides in the backs of Hyundai pony taxis. What was even more scary was that if you were almost late to going to work & you told the taxi driver “balee, balee (hurry, hurry) & showed him a $5 or whatever to drive faster.

Those are (were) called chong-al (총알) taxis. Chong-al is the Korean word for bullet.

By: Baek In-je

Baek In-je — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:26:45 +0000

Imagine that you are in any city in America and riding your motorcycle or scooter on the sidewalk or through crosswalks where dozens of pedestrians are walking. What percentage of police officers who witness this are going to pretend like it just didn’t happen? Zero. Why?

1. It is their job to enforce the laws.
2. They are concerned about keeping the public safe.
3. It is their F#$KING job.

As a matter of fact, every police officer witnessing that would chase you down to catch you.

Koreans do not follow the rules. It is a problem from the top of the government down to the lowest member of society. It is a problem from major crimes all the way down to throwing trash on the ground. You simply cannot get a Korean to do anything you try to make them do. This is why the Japanese soldiers and police used to cut the noses off Korean men during Japan’s colonization on 1910-1945.