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Ah, but as Koreans like to say whenever the hell it suits them, “English teachers aren’t real teachers!”

They’re not real teachers and I’m not Korean.

They’re not real teachers

Except for those who actually have their teaching credentials, right?

My boss is my third Korean boss….I can fairly conclude that they are A-holes who will never learn English.

Wow. THREE whole Korean bosses. That certainly makes you an authority on the entire Korean-boss demographic. I’m sure you’ll pardon me while I laugh in your face.

hahahahahahahahaha

Smooooooth.

Next time, if these big noses are willing to go a bit earlier and in drag, they’ll find plenty of Korean guys willing to offer them bottles of the same exact booze for free.

Much better to get “booked” at the club than down at the station, ain’t it?

Dicks

But they were drunk so it is ok. And they may have led a hard life.

Oh right, those excuses only work for Koreans.

i wish the cops found something “else” on them…idiots!!!

But they were drunk so it is ok. And they may have led a hard life.

Oh right, those excuses only work for Koreans.

It’s a bit premature to say they haven’t yet worked for these mooks as well.

Wow Korea must be a peaceful place if a story like this generates so much discussion. Here in Lithuania a couple of drunken English guys broke into my gun range and managed to get their hands some automatic weapons, not just a few bottles of liquor. That didn’t make any newspapers.

Um…this is unrelated, but for some reason a username/password authentication screen came up when I tried to get on KoreaBeat. What’s up with that?

Hm, I’m not sure. If you’re a registered user, then you’ll have to sign in.

I hope that the person who writes these articles doesn’t actually teach English themselves… terrible grammar.

It’s a translation, mate. What sounds like an awkward run-on sentence in English here could be because a) it sounds better in the original, or b) it’s an awkward run-on sentence in the original.

Idiots. I’ve said it a million times, you break the law, you deserve to be punished for it. If they did break the law, they shouldn’t expect people to feel sorry for them either, drunk or not.

I don’t think this should be on the front page of every Korean newspaper though-and I’m not saying it is btw.

I strongly doubt the “I was drunk” excuse is going to work for any foreigner in Korea especially in Busan and I dare say the justification of, “We have to think about their families” won’t work for them as well.

JohnT wrote:
I don’t think this should be on the front page of every Korean newspaper though-and I’m not saying it is btw.

It’s a man-bites-dog kinda story. And teachers of any stripe behaving badly gets an extra bit of spotlight focused on it.

I strongly doubt the “I was drunk” excuse is going to work for any foreigner in Korea especially in Busan and I dare say the justification of, “We have to think about their families” won’t work for them as well.

My limited experience observing cases in court would suggest that foreign residents who demonstrate remorse and provide a mitigating reason also tend to end up with the courts going easy on them.

s’just how we do in busan. gangster as hell.

Maybe the courts will go easy on them. With the demonizing of English teachers over the last five years, I don’t have any faith. Is this story worth the cost of ink and/or air time? I can see the Korean media using this story just to get locals worked up over foreigners in Korea.

Just out of curiosity, would a Korean national stealing a couple of bottles of booze find themselves the target of Korean national media outlets?

I know some drunk Korean dude that lived by me got arrested for smashing out a convenience store window with a big ass rock. That never made it into the newspapers. At least my gf didn’t read or hear anything about it. Not that it all means anything I guess.

I work for a Korean employer. My boss is my third Korean boss….I can fairly conclude that they are A-holes who will never learn English.

Those guys sound like great craic!

Just out of curiosity, would a Korean national stealing a couple of bottles of booze find themselves the target of Korean national media outlets?

If they were teachers, quite possibly yes.

Ah, but as Koreans like to say whenever the hell it suits them, “English teachers aren’t real teachers!”