Random Korean Cultural Trivia
- Lotte is a Korean confectionary conglomerate founded by Shin Kyuk-Ho in the 1940s when he was selling gum to post-WWII kids in Japan. Now it is one of Asia's largest conglomerates in food, branching into other businesses like managing sports, hotels and Lotte World (Korea's national theme park)
I'm back in my hometown of Mokpo to relax at my relatives' place. Since I was given four days of free time I didn't want to stay in Wando with nothing to do, so I hopped on the next bus back home. I went to the bathhouse with the local thugs (not on purpose) and I finally caught up on other things.
I went to Lotte Mart (think of it as a Korean walmart) this morning to shop for my living essentials and any other things I may want to get before I leave for Wando. When I got there, there was an incident right across the street involving roughly five thugs and about three other guys. I moved a bit closer to the Song's Beer bar right beside them and lit up a smoke pretending to turn a blind eye to the situation.
From what I could understand, the three guys in the sedan tried to cut off the van full of the thugs and of course crashed into them and left a scratch on their van bumper. I know the people here never follow the traffic laws (red lights, car lanes, speed limit are all suggestions as pointed out by Eliza), but damn those guys chose the wrong van to try to cut off. Anyway there was about two minutes of swearing, arguing saying the other was at fault.
It seems those three idiots didn't understand their position in the situation as there were three of them and five gangsters. The 'leader' of both sides were doing the arguing, soon after the gangster (who seemed like a Judo expert) grabbed the guy and threw the guy, slamming him against the road pavement. He put his knee on the guy's chest and started bashing the guys face in. I estimate the thug leader weighed about 220lbs, about 190cm in height, which is about 80lbs heavier than the guy he was thrashing, plus the thug was wearing these gold rings on his fingers.. ouch.
When I went to Seoul a few weeks ago, I saw a bunch of pussy kids pulling on each other's hair and shoving each other. Now I clearly see why the Mokpo people laugh at how weak the Seoul people are. THIS is a fight, not pulling on each other's goddamn emo hair. To be fair it wasn't even a fight, it was a massacre of the idiots who tried to fight gangsters.
Instead of apologizing and trying to get their friend out, the guy's two friends tried to help him and of course get similar punishment. The pounding continued for about 20 seconds and goddamn I've never seen anyone get that bloody that fast. When they stopped the gangsters spat on them and gave them a quick lecture and they all left. Soon after the local people called for an ambulance I guess and that was the end of it.
I'm surprised they allowed them to just get away with a near fatal beating. I kinda expected them to say something like "I'll come back to collect money for scratching my car" or something like that. Soon after I walked into the store and got my shit and went back home. I got here two days ago and I've already encountered two groups of gangsters doing their shit. o_O
Friday, February 26, 2010
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