Situation #1:
My church friend was riding his bike in the Gangnam area. While on a side road, his light was green but all of the sudden he saw a car running through a red light, so he slammed on his brake and he flew over the handlebars and landed on his right arm. To make matters worse, the middle-aged woman (affectionately known as an "ajumma" in Korea) look back and saw him lying on the street, but kept driving any way. If that wasn't bad enough, 10 different people saw him, but did nothing to help him out.
Situation #2:
My coworker is a young American guy from L.A. like me. He was smoking outside an office building where many other Korean middle-aged men were smoking. A woman approaches him and drills him by asking "Where are you from?", "Where do you work?", and "How long have you been in Korea?" He said that he thought it was okay to smoke there since every other business man was there and there were two Korean males smoking next to him, but they weren't approached. So he asked, "What about them? They're smoking too." The woman's response: "Well, that's just how we do things in Korea." Then she fined him W40,000 while the other two men got away without receiving a fine. My coworker was annoyed to say the least.
Scott Worden (The L.A./Seoul Guy)
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