Lazy Beggars
Begging is a fine art known throughout the world. There isn’t a country that you could go to without finding a beggar in some form. I don’t know of any ‘developed’ country where it is legal ut like any other law, its only a problem when the law has been disturbed and enforcement is necessary.
Korea has its share of beggars without a doubt. You see them hanging around the subway stations waiting for handouts and really not much of them outside except around Seoul station. There seems to be a small colony strewn along one part of the street, obviously more noticeable during the warm weather.
So, like good little marketers, the beggars know where their ‘target audience’ is located. The ideal audience is one that can’t run away. The beggars have hit the subway trains themselves.
I have seen a singing blind guy. I recorded it but not sure if I can find that file. If I do, I’ll put it here. It wasn’t that great and kinda creepy. The bad 70′s middle-eastern film type of bad.
Found the file! The Seoul Metro Singing Beggar – Line 1
Once I was waiting for a train and I saw this scruffy looking guy walk by carrying a styrofoam box lid that had some stuff in it. He looked fine outside of his visual appearance. I just marked it as odd. I got on the train and about 10mins later I see him again. This time he’s semi-crawling along the floor with an expression of pain and suffering on his face all the while pushing that dirty styrofoam lid in front if him.
Then there was the lazy beggar today. There was something physically wrong with his eyes bit otherwise he was dressed and walked like anyone else. What really made him special was his method. All he did was walk up to someone, hold a piece of paper up (with obvious Korean writing on it) and when they ignored him he moved on. Some might say he’s efficient but in reality he is just plain lazy.
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Anonymous Reveals The Arcane Legal Trick Behind ACTA | Disinformation
Being the typical “Canadian Hacker” (meaning that we don’t actually do anything but just forward information thar could be interpreted /implies otherwise by virtue of conent) I present a non-standard point of view on ACTA and this concerns me greatly.
http://www.disinfo.com/2012/01/anonymous-reveals-the-arcane-legal-trick-behind-acta/
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I just updated Seeing a Doctor in Korea with a couple of pics :)
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