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 Violent Crimes Division arrested someone for smoking a joint. Is it just me or does that sound like overkill?

“ Mr. M’s father was the Israeli ambassador to Korea in the mid-2000s, and was known in diplomatic circles as a friend of Korea.”

Perhaps, but obviously Korea was no friend to his family.  Lesson noted.

 Seoul police must have little to do…

Korean police are scum. This man was simply arrested for suspicion of smoking marijuana. Nothing is proven yet. Despite this, the police ‘essentially’ reveal his identity to the media via the fact that very few foreigners reside in South Korea and are easily identifiable through splices of information (gender, age, surname initial, country of origin, place of work). See this article in the KookMin Ilbo as an example:

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2010/05/recent-articles-about-foreign-english.html

None of the foreigners in that article were even taken to court after being identified to the public by the police and media in a similar. After the police presented their evidence to the public prosecutor, the prosecutor decided not to take any of the three suspects to court based on the weak evidence that the police presented. 

Identifying Korean suspects in the same way that Korean police and media do to Koreans; e.g., Mr K, 33, Korean, working for a company starting with S; would hardly narrow it down the same way.

The way in which Korean police release information identifying foreigners is plan discriminatory and against the word of Korean law which defines libel as the release of any information that enables the general public to identify a person. 

Plan and simple, Korean cops are scum. 

Korean police are scum. This man was simply arrested for suspicion of smoking marijuana. Nothing is proven yet. Despite this, the police ‘essentially’ reveal his identity to the media via the fact that very few foreigners reside in South Korea and are easily identifiable through splices of information (gender, age, surname initial, country of origin, place of work). See this article in the KookMin Ilbo as an example:

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2010/05/recent-articles-about-foreign-english.html

None of the foreigners in that article were even taken to court after being identified to the public by the police and media in a similar. After the police presented their evidence to the public prosecutor, the prosecutor decided not to take any of the three suspects to court based on the weak evidence that the police presented. 

Identifying Korean suspects in the same way that Korean police and media do to Koreans; e.g., Mr K, 33, Korean, working for a company starting with S; would hardly narrow it down the same way.

The way in which Korean police release information identifying foreigners is plan discriminatory and against the word of Korean law which defines libel as the release of any information that enables the general public to identify a person. 

Plan and simple, Korean cops are scum. 

A foreigner cannot be defammed in Korea for their name isn’t as important than that of a Korean, don’t you know that? 

Today, Korean’s legal system is pretty fair, for Koreans and foreigners. It has vastly improved. Ten years ago foreigners could hardly present their case and more often faced discriminatory treatment (this is first hand info from a translator with 20+ years experience). These foreigners being illegally identified in the paper could easily present a strong case against the police and media for libel. Korea even has a government agency that people can go to to help them present a libel case (can’t remember name off hand). 

[...] Former Israeli ambassador’s son arrested with marijuana in Korea Original article in Korean is at the Chosun Ilbo. The violent crimes division of the Seoul Central Prosecutor’s Office announced on May 19 that it had arrested without detention 33-year-old Mr. M, the son of a former Israeli ambassador to Korea, on charges of smoking marijuana. Mr. M is accused of smoking marijuana near a Read more on Asian Correspondent [...]

Korean police are scum. This man was simply arrested for suspicion of smoking marijuana.

I’m going to lay most of the blame for this on the media, which regularly station reporters near or inside police stations just in case someone famous or notable gets arrested. 

Why is it important to say its a nightclub for foreigners??? One, its not a nightclub its a lounge and 2 it’s not for foreigners, it’s for people who like good music. Did the police write this one for you Nathan?

Really don’t understand how someone smoking a spliff makes headlines in Korea but still. They might as well give the name of the poor git who’s been locked up. Former Isreali Ambassador’s son from the mid-2000s…lives in itaewon…runs a “foreigners” club. Found his name, age and picture with 3 different searches on google. No matter how liberal you wanna paint Korea up as, it will for the near and distant figure remain an extremely conservative, jingoistic colony of short tempered intolerant backhand taking bigots. lol. Bit much…but…well…if you have lived there as long as i and seen the police policy of guilty before proven innocent,  guilty through association with the guilty or guilty because a Korean accused you of something, you might begin to understand how it feels.

Nathan…i really don’t know where you are from but i am sure that in your own country you would lose your job of be heavily sued for writing something as libelous as this. Shame on you.

Cue in “marjiuana advcoates” coming on to defend this man and their weed. We’re all hypocrites for drinking and thinking weed is bad, marijuana doesn’t cause cancer, marijuana is health food, we’re all brainwashed, hemp makes great open toe sandals.. yeah yeah potheads. Keep doing your thing, nobody cares.

You do realize that these are TRANSLATED articles from the Korean press, right?

What is there to defend? In Korea, it’s illegal to smoke weed. It’s the law of the land, and he broke it. Indefensible, regardless of one’s stance on weed use (and I have a hunch we would be on opposite sides of that argument).

If anyone wants to smoke up, leave Korea and head for Canada or the Netherlands. If you live here, don’t break the law.

They don’t arrest people for drugs in the U.S. or other countries? Your response is so predictable. 

Not when you break the rules. Or does Korea not have the right to enforce its own laws? Seriously, some of you guys are just . . . rolls eyes. 

Your lack of reading comprehension is also predictable.

His point was not that they arrested him (it’s the law of the land, they SHOULD arrest him), but with WHO arrested him. Is the VCD *really* the appropriate division of the police department to arrest a pot smoker? Really?

It hasn’t been said one way or the other, but does the guy have any diplomatic immunity (as a family member of an ambassador), or was that “privilege” revoked once his father left office?

Backtracking now, I see. Deflect your own poor communication skills onto me. Yes, that’s a GREAT argument. 

Stop your whining. Jeez. They also do this to Koreans. 

and the funny thing is, almost nobody (koreans) even know the taste, smell and effects of cannabis. I have smelled weed at noon on the street and people can’t tell what is the smell, this guy was unlucky. 

MY poor communication skills? Exactly how am *I* backtracking? It’s not MY sentence you misread, it was Flint’s.

Again, YES HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED (for fuck sakes, I’m agreeing with you!). Flint’s argument was that sending in the VIOLENT CRIMES Division is overkill.

Are you saying it’s not? For a pot smoker? He was probably high and could have been arrested by the cop’s grandmother without incident. What need was there for the VIOLENT CRIMES division to get involved? Last time I saw, smoking pot was not a violent crime. It’s not like the guy was out of his mind on PCP.

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