Crime, Safety, and Danger in Korea
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- What's the Crime rate like in Korea? While we can't give you statistics, we can talk about what our experience of safety in Korea has been like, personally.
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When I was in Korea I was really like REALLY surprised how save it is! And I'm only nearly 17 years old. I could walk down the streets at 1am and I didn't have really a reason to be afraid (besides that I'm a bit afraid of being alone...).
And what was even more surprising was when I met with a korean friend and we went in a café in Hongdae where the boy behind the counter told us to go upstairs first and save seats for us and then order downstairs. My friend left her bag on the chair and her phone on the table and wanted to go downstairs and I was like "Wth how can you do this?? Are you not afraid that somebody might steal it?!" But she just said that people don't do that here and told me to leave my phone on the table as well. When we returned nobody even LOOKED AT or TOUCHED our phones! This was pretty amazing! :)
The United States on the other hand......is a different story. You can leave you car in a pretty safe neighborhood, leave for maybe 4 hours, and come back to see no car. That happened to me (still hate the guy who stole our car) and I can tell you honestly that one reason I would want to live in South Korea permanently is because of what everyone who talks about safety in Korea says. They never seem to have anything bad to say about the safety there!
xXJiJohiXx lol true. I went to Japan for a month and I was shocked people were leaving bikes unlocked. You do that in San Francisco for 2 minutes it's gone.
I live in Japan right now and we live near American Military Base, and most foriegners are not allowed to loiter at the streets from 11:00pm to 5am!! Well we can walk around but Police will warn or catch you if hang around the streets especially if you are noisy!
One new thing makes me proud to be a korean
xXJiJohiXx Ah...similar to Germany, it's not like your car gets stolen a lot, but bikes get stolen a lot, even when they're locked, it's so crazy... I think in Korea it's like that, because (someone told me that) loooots of years ago when you were caught stealing in Korea your hand will be chopped off, so everybody could see you stole something and it puts a lot of shame on you (but I think it depended on what you stole...). I don't know if it's true, but I guess it could be^^ many countries had similar punishments in the past
In the three years that I've lived in Korea the only times I have ever felt unsafe were due to bad drivers.
That makes the most amount of sense.
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No gangs of schoolboys to f*ck sh*t up? Lol, they're all probably too tired from being in class for like....12 hours >.
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"The bad kids are 'bad' by not studying". Whooaa! I'm staying away from THAT neighborhood!! If only we had such 'bad' kids in this country, life would be so much better!!!!!!
you can walk alone anywhere in 2am and anything wont happen.trust me. never seen a crime in 20 years
Its true, because in south korea is everywhere always any cctv camera
I miss living in Korea. I currently live in the States. I do love it here but I can't walk around at night. In Korea, I could go out alone after midnight and I'll feel safe. I used to take that for granted :( I think Osaka, Japan is pretty safe too.
tbh, my least concern is bad teenagers....bad adults are like 10x more scary @_@
lol iono about that. I get really nervous when I see a group of teenagers walking on a street at night. Im 23 but I'm small so sometimes they think I'm a high schooler and want to mess with me
MusingsofaJay
totally get that.. im short AF and ride a bike most places. hate it when i see a group of more than like.. 3 because they usually are being rowdy and wana screw with peeps lol stupid kids.
nick Marquez lol IKR!! I really try not to blend in with them or else I get even more nervous.
agreed
That's a... debatable one xD bad adults have at least some traces of common sence, bad teenagers are just careless, screwed up in the head, completely fearless and can stab/rob/rape you for no reason whatsoever just because they are "cool and rebellious".
That's it, I'M MOVING TO SOUTH KOREA!!!
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same bye england mhahahahahahaa
but england is alredy safe
FUCK ENGLAND
Jaya Suriya England is not safe wth. You wanna walk down the streets at 1am you’ll most likely end up dead.
i wanna be a foreign exchange student in Korea but my mom thinks that i'll get kidnapped by the north Korean government or something because i'm american and it is very apparent that i am american -_-
Same :(
Never. I'm Korean and there are many exchange students or foreigners from U.S. are living in Korea. You and your mom don't have to worry about that
thanks. but i'm not the one who's worried :(. my mother is the one who's afraid/worried. because of how the media here portrays it she is completely against me going to korea at all :(
I'm surprised she isn't more concerned about MERS.
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I would concur with the level of cautiousness in America and North America in general. I live in a safe place in the USA and I have still had cars broken into because someone saw that you left valuables in there and so on... I have never felt like my life was in danger; but have had some scary moments before.
I am going to travel to Seoul on my own this year and I showed this video to my mum, who was like super scared about me being exposed to criminality. Well, she can sleep much better now. And me as well :D Thank you guys! You are amazing!
korean police almost don't shooting to people(except for murder) and they are sacrificing for civil safety and happyness. but, most civil is don't know this worth.
I'm not good at English. sorry
i was in seoul for a few weeks and it's pretty safe. of course crime is going to occur everywhere but it happens less in korea.
Toronto, get egged waiting for the bus, New York City, get shot waiting for the bus...
I remember a few people died from a paintball guns they put marbles in Side and shot at people from a car only in New York City
Yes, kiwis! I am literally just posting this randomly because this is the first time I have heard anyone mention a New Zealander in their list of foreigners in Korea.
The next time I see "gangsters" at night I'm going to pull up to them blasting mr simple...
hahaha ur comment made me laugh so hard :D
I completely agree that Korea feels very very safe. I've been there twice on short holidays and it's one of the things I really love about going to Korea. I do have to say that I only felt unsafe a couple of times. The first was sort of unsafe, but more just really creeped out when a middle aged drunk man came over to my friend and I (pretty late at night) on Haeundae beach in Busan, started trying to talk to us in Korean and proceeded to both nudge my friend and touch my hair. I'm not sure if it was just a communication breakdown but I felt a little violated. We also had some questionable experiences on Jeju island late at night, with our taxi driver trying to beat someone up over a road rage incident. So I guess these things do happen everywhere, but the fact that nothing bad actually happened to us probably shows that Korea is safe. I certainly felt safer in Korea that I do in my home town of Melbourne, Australia. Especially very late at night and on public transport.
Well. next time you see one of those drunk guy. Kick him in the nut and tell the police that you felt sexually harassed. It is a crime in Korea if you so much of touch other women's shoulder. (no pun intended.)
Yeah that sounds crime to me too, I'm Korean and next time you contact with those kind of threat just call the police, they'll be there like in 5 seconds after receive upon your call, by the way in Korea emergency police call is 112 not 911 like America.
A foreign (American) friend that I met in Busan had some similar experiences considering middle-aged drunken men; I guess they think foreign girls are more sexually open and therefore ok to approach in that way. (which is OBVIOUSLY not true!) They CAN be uncomfortable like that, but at the same time avoidable (and even) manageable.
As a single female gyopo who lived in the Guro district of Seoul after living in small town Alberta, I must say that I didn't always feel the safest. I had cult followers try to solicit me in Korean and English, exposed to disorderly conduct and followed by drunks, irresponsible drivers (scooter drivers, too), and creepy cab drivers ripping me off after 1am. But my other friends from the States were so impressed with how safe Seoul was. Again, it depends on where you grew up in.
there are some parts of the united states that you would avoid at all costs, and you can generally tell when you accidentally take a wrong turn into one of these areas, but it's kinda hard to compare, say, Korea v. USA because Korea is almost the exact same size of Tennessee, the state I currently live in. Plus, they have different standards, cause leaving your baby in the car while you run into the store is considered a crime around here.
You're correct on all accounts.
That is why I love South Korea
I come home at midnight after school everyday.
This is why I want to move back to Korea. Bc it is so safe. I frequently went running at midnight alone in Korea. Here in the USA I would never run after sun down without my rottie/German Shepard mix (whom I got in Korea...kinda weird bc they are scared of big dogs) or my husband. I love that guns are illegal too.
There is NO crime in Korea. 7 years here and not a damn thing.
I went to Thailand about 1 year and a half ago and Vietnam 6 months ago and OMG! I have never felt so safe in my life.When i went to Thailand there only three of us girls (Mum (54), our friend (62) and myself (15)) and Vietnam on a tour with Mum and Friend. No one bothered us when we walked around the back streets or anything it was so crazy. i get bothered walking around near my house in Australia. I love Asia. * contented smile on face *
It's pretty funny that you guys mention this because I live in FL and in a roughly safe area, but I wouldn't dare walk around my town at night without the whole wolverine thing with my keys or my mace on my key ring haha
My wolverine hand only has one claw x_x I'm not old enough to have 3 keys....and I don't think my "protective" parents would ever let me possess mace o.o
my sister has been worried about me going to college in korea and this video's definitely gonna help with her worries! thanks you guys~
America is like one of the unsafest places in the world.
there's worst
thefirebird50 Yeah, like middle east countries, many SE Asian countries, South American countries and African countries.
MikTheAsianMan Oman (in the Middle east) is actually really safe, Arab countries are safe as long as theres no war/conflict going on.
ʇsıssıɔɹɐN ɔıʇǝɥʇɐԀ ɐ ǝɹ,noʎ (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Saudi Arabia has one of the worst human rights laws in the world, but I guess it would considered part of Asia.
MikTheAsianMan LOL nah. You're such an ignorant. Don't talk about Saudi Arabia if you haven't been there ;) kekeke you will be disappointed LMAO
I like that you are sharing your experiences all the time instead of stats that I can google any day :)
I seriously want Martina's cardigan!
I've lived in Korea for over a year.
Left my laptop, wallet and phone outside in the car seats ALL exposed to public crowds, WITH THE WINDOWS HALF WAY OPEN.
I was completely drunk didnt even bother to lock it.
Next day, every thing is still there.
Like Simon and Martina have said, I've never felt more safer in any mega city than Seoul.
Simon look like Jimmy neutron lol
My mother in law is visiting from Korea and she told us this story about how her neighbor was moving and left her TV out on the street and some one took it. I acted like it was a big deal, but seeing as I live in Baltimore (where my TV could very well be stolen out of my house, while I'm in the middle of watching it) I think it just proves how safe Korea is, that someone would A) leave their TV outside unguarded and B) then be surprised when it gets stolen.
Awesome. I want to live in Korea !!!
oh my gosh the like tim hortons gangs are a staple in canada hahha. I swear every city, and every town, has their own group of like 7-15 teenagers who show up in their cars after midnight and just act like they're the coolest people in the world
so true about going to tim hortons at 2 and seeing souped up trucks with teenagers. lol
It was this comment that confirmed to me what "souped up" meant. I actually never knew even though I've heard it many times. I think that's a fairly strange way to describe "pimped out."
100% agree with the lack of violent crime. I wish they would do a video about public safety in Korea: recklessness on the roads (look it up), locked fire exits, fire exits that are open but lead to a long fall and a fatal encounter with gravity, etc... and come back to Korea, we miss you. :)
"I will cut you..."
and this is why i love them xD
THANK U!!!!!! My mom always worries about me living in korea because of safety, now i can tell her i'm more safe there that i am here. I know she will be more at ease, at least a bit.
Lol. Your pronunciation of that Vietnamese name.
I absolutely love you two...I missed you guys in Irvine btw! FYI I am one if the original viewers of you two on TH-cam before the fame. ; )
Humm... all these comments about how unsafe the US is... it I think depends on where you are. In my small college town full of (gasp! College students!) I leave my tablet, computer, open, plugged in, and logged in routinely, while I go to the bathroom, get food, etc. Nothing has happened to it. I once forgot my tablet in a classroom, and I was really worried I'd never get it back, but then spotted it a week later on the professor's desk. I also cross the road whenever I want because I know the cars will stop, haha. Bad habit. >.< On the other hand, when I go back home to the DC area, you can't leave your electronics out, and once someone stole my sister's coat after we left it on a bench with the rest of our stuff at an ice rink.
I think the homicide rates are mostly common among the teens and younger. They get a lot of pressure from home and school. You have to constantly worry about meeting the goals of your parents, your teachers, and your peers, and it's worse if the people around you are strict. I remember watching a video from a Korean guy's perspective and he talked about when he lived in Korea and the people you went to school with lived right around you, so you had to worry about bullies at school AND at home.
well. simon. ur 6'2''. and white. lol. they are intimated easily for 'foreigners.'
not because of jst physiques, but jst dont wanna be bothered and going through like
"ajussi, do you. u know. money? me money? free? yes? me knife. u money? yes?"
6'4 actually 😂 dothraki man
While I was visiting Korea, my friend, who is korean, called me late one night saying that as she was getting off the subway she heard an old man yelling that he was going to rape and kill a girl. No one was paying attention to him cause he was obviously crazy, but he started to chase after her and she eventually ran into a store and asked for help and they had to call the police.
I felt very safe in Korea; I wasn't afraid to walk at night, but if you go to korea, know how to ask for help.
I live near Chicago and I cannot tell you how scary it is to walk in the city at night.
I'm a foreigner (fellow Canuck!) currently living in Korea and I couldn't agree with you more. Go to a bar, you'll see phones and purses abandoned while their owners are dancing. It's crazy how quickly you lose your sense of cautiousness here. The only real thing to worry about is when you're crossing streets!
I'm a girl, 19 years old and I was touring around Seoul (getting lost on the big metro) and I was alone all day long... I felt totally safe. Even during the evening and the morning hours I still felt safe.
no true for Japan either. my friend left her camera in a coffee shop in Tokyo and when we realized she left it we were no one near the shop anymore. we called the place, the camera was still exactly where she left it and the owner mailed it to the hotel we were at.
I'm a foreigner as well who goes to Korea University. As someone who's pretty familiar with both Seoul and Toronto, I have honestly never felt so safe in my entire life! Even when people are publicly drunk, it's never served as a threat or a danger to anyone.
The first night I arrived in Korea, I (a young woman) literally wandered around in the rain for 2 hours straight trying to find my prebooked hostel in Hongdae area. Went down some dark alleys, walked past some sketchy looking 5-man bars and more seemingly terrifying places. Aaaaaand I'm good.
My grandparents are so convinced I'll get bombed or sold into human trafficing as soon as I step into Korea, when we live in one of the top counties in the country for human trafficing
I'm a Korean. When I was young, I didn't know Korea is a safe country. As I grow old, traveling all around the world, living both in Europe and US, I realized that Korea is safer than any other advanced countries.
Yes, my friends who are blonde and brunette, extremely pretty by the way, walk around Seoul in the evening with no problem.
Unlike many other places around the world, crime here is regarded as morally and socially just wrong.
The punishment from social scorn by others is MUCH MUCH harsher than the legal punishment from a crime. You see criminals covering their faces due to their embarrassment to their family and honor. You dont see that type of behavior anywhere else.
Wha! I love this video! I live in a pretty small town in Alberta and I'm always telling my mum and grandma that I might move to Korea some day(I'm 16) but they always say things like "oh, what if something happened to you over there" "Is it safe?" " Were we live now isn't even safe and , plus it's not like I can run over to help you if you run into trouble" I am so gonna show them this video! ._. Thank you for making this! ^^
I am glad that I click on the youtube video of eatyourkimich a year ago xD Brings me happiness
I've been in Korea for over a year now, and while I live in a smaller city (160,000 people), I've never felt safer than I have here. No matter what time of day or night I can walk outside alone and never worry (being a man probably makes a little difference). I feel the same way when I visit Seoul, too. It's one of the many reasons I like Korea so much.
Dude, I totally get the safety at night cautiousness that you're talking about. Even in the middle of the day, if I'm walking around certain parts of my city, I'm constantly looking around me, looking at how many strangers are around, do they look suspicious, where would I go if someone tried to stop me, etc. It's just sort of something that's instilled in you by growing up in those areas, it becomes habit.
Well, since it's gonna be Halloween soon, I want to ask you if Korean people do something special to celebrate it. Thanks for the amazing videos :)
Seriously, I have been living in Korea for a long time, and I personally feel it's really safe here. I have heard warnings from my parents' friends and colleagues that I should be careful walking out on street at night, but I often walk out there at 11 p.m and other than wind blowing, people with dogs walking by after doing some exercises, and cars, there is nothing that I can even call dangerous, even though I take precaution every single by walking with an umbrella in my hand, without rain.
You guys are awesome. This is the first time I have ever commented on TH-cam! So you guys are awesome!
I would agree with you both. I am from the US and I do feel safer here than back home. I currently live here and I don't feel scared walking home by myself at night. I also agree that kids here try to be bad secretly and not in public. At least from what I have seen as an English teacher.
I did forget my camera in the taxi one time in Korea then after a while the man in the taxi did came and look for me to give back my camera! It made me happy
Omg I'm showing this to my mom! I'm falling more in love with you guys more.
I am korean. Thank u 4 loving korea.
Thanks pr for foreigner.
I cannt speak eng very well. But i am very proud of your.
감사합니다. 한국 많이 사랑해주시고 앞으로도 많이 홍보해 주세요. 진심 감사해요.
When I lived in Canada, I thought it was the safest place in the world, and I never felt so safe in my life ... yet my Korean friends used to tell me Korea was way better :P (PS I'm Mexican, and from a pretty scary Mexican state).
Im mexican too and for me Canada's safety was already too cool to believe it, Korea's is a big "WHAT? HOW THE HELL? REALLY?" Sounds nice to not be scared to death to go outside
i went to korea a year ago, and trust me, nothing like that of a very metropolitan area like beijing, shanghai, or new york city. it's actually quite nice!
Well for me South Korea felt pretty safe but my husband always says to me that Korea is not as safe as it feels like. Im from Buenos Aires and i dont feel safe at all everytime i go back. I feel uneasy until i fly back home.
Physically violent crime may be low there but cyber crime is rampant.
Here is US.... Even in TH-cam... if u read couple of comments~ Oh boi D:
this is so true, i experienced this in Taiwan for a year I never felt so safe in my entire life it's so nice as a girl^^
I went to Korea only two weeks but looks like its quite the same with Taiwan^^
Well generally, singapore's pretty safe too. And in schools we don't have that serious bullying situation that's why i don't really get when people said they've been bullied
In Korea my friend would always tell me "don't walk here by yourself" in different places in Seoul. However, I was always with him or other friends and had no idea where I even was most of the time.
Here are some statistics: According to a report issued by the education ministry in September 2010, the punishment for teachers who commit sex crimes is usually nothing more than a salary cut or a short-term suspension. It is typical for other categories of convicted sex criminals to be sentenced either to suspended sentences, fines or probation.
I love this video. I was trying to explain this to my international friends today and they just didn't get it. So many people think Canada is this super amazing place. Well, yeah, it's better than many others, but I'd still rather stay in Korea.
I totally agree. I felt so safe living in Korea. I mean, I wasn't scared to walk down an alley in the middle of the night because Seoul felt so amazingly safe....plus guns are illegal in Korea. Not even the police carry them.
I TOTALLY understand this. Walked alone back to my place (was at a friend's) in the wee morning with a bottle of soju under my arm, and felt TOTALLY safe. Also, my Korean boyfriend was totally confused why he couldn't walk to a convenience store by himself in the dark when he visited my home in the U.S
Dude, Korea is SO CLEAN! And the one crime I've seen? One of the many police officers on patrol stopped it.I have to say, I feel quite safe.
I got a friend who is Korean and i asked her the same question. She responded that its safe in Korea as every part of their streets have cctv and all their cars have cameras. So if anyone tries to rob you, it would be caught on tape... Kinda cool actually.
You guys are so awesome. I'm a Korean but I learn about Korea from you two (I did move to New Zealand when I was a little kid)! 사이몬 앤 마티나 화이팅! I hope to meet you guys when I'm in Korea LOL.
Where I live in the south of Spain, you have to be very careful when coming home after 11pm, as the teenagers and older won't think twice about giving your a good kicking and taking your stuff. Even pensioners aren't safe.. This has happened to my father. He was walking around at 5:30-5:45am on a Sunday morning and 3 lads jumped him whilst he was walking my brother to work with our dog, they punched him and gave him a really good kicking for no reason. Unfortunately, we live in one of the poorest areas of Spain, where tobacco and drug smuggling are rife :(. We have no alternative, as rental prices across the border in Gibraltar are far too expensive.
I grew up in a rather small town in Quebec, Canada....and I know that it took me time to adapt when I moved to Quebec City even if this city is really safe and the crime rate is low, I still needed time to adjust to all these strange people on the bus and all and I didn't feel safe to take the bus alone at 11 PM. But compared to Montreal and Toronto, Quebec city is much more safe. I still feel that there's some place in the city where a girl alone shouldn't go at night but overall it's safe
I don't know what you've heard about Hangeng but "racism" he experienced wasn't quite the racism. I think one of the biggest hardship he experienced was that he wasn't allowed to perform on stage or having to wear a mask. This is because at the time in Korea, working Visa situation for foreigners who perform on TV was rare and the law wasn't quite clear cut. Hangeng was unfortunate that he was one of the first to go through this. Other foreign talents that followed didn't have this problems
in asia country, if u left any thing behind and want to go back and take it.....dont even think about getting your stuff back ,even its only been a few minutes ago
I am really confused about the concept of a "Scandal" in Korea, like a lot of what is considered normal elsewhere is tagged as scandalous in Korea. Have you ever dealt with or witnessed a "scandal" that was never really a scandal to begin with?
I think we are the same here..I once saw a bag of groceries standing at a bus stop when i got off it and two hours later when i go back it was still there xD Nobody took it..and this is a country where we sleep with our doors unlocked
I saw some dramas where there is crime. One character set himself up to be the king of beggars, he was collecting money from homeless people and they had to pay him regularly. All organized by city district. In another drama there were hoodlums mostly late at night near clubs in Seoul but they all ran away when challenged. The crime rates in Korea and Japan are much lower than in other countries though.
yes you can..lots of people do that. usually the fans wait outside their entertainment companies and/or broadcast centres. it's easy to see them if you know they are promoting a song and just visit the broadcast centre they are performing at that day (:
My hometown is Caracas, Venezuela, so anywhere else is safe to me. Though the paranoia will never leave me, I'm always super cautious.
This is the exact video I need to show my mom! When I told her I wanted to go to Korea, she thought I was out of my mind! She told me its not safe at all, the thing going on with north Korea, and that I'd get kidnapped since I'm American. I think she may have this attitude since we live in a pretty ghetto neighborhood.
isn't it dangerous to leave your baby in the car due to overheating issues... ?
I have like no intention of moving to Korea, I can't even visit because I can't afford it. Honestly, I'm not even really interested in Korea, respectfully. I watch your videos because you guys are such funny, cool, down-to-earth personalities... and I'm now becoming interested in visiting one day thanks to you =)
i've never been to korea, but whenever I go to Taiwan, I always feel super safe! I think it's because of the amount of people that are still out at odd hours, so if anything bad happens, there's a crapload of witnesses (plus the high usage of phones, people can take pictures and video record in .00001 second). I feel less safe walking on my front lawn than I do when I'm trying to catch the train home in NYC at 11pm, just because of the amount of people still outside.
Interesting video! I come from a Scandinavian country that's considered to be really safe in general, but I live in the capital, and at night time I don't feel safe at all (depends onwhich part of the city I'm in, of course). There are quite a lot of rapes, mugging and violence, and then you have the robbing of houses and some gangs.
I've been to Korea twice and I still think Korea is safe. I remember going out at night with my sister in Apgujeong just the two of us, seeing elementary students going to school by themselves without feeling scared. and I remember seeing a drunken guy sleeping on the stair once and that was a bit scary for me. but Korea is totally safe in my opinion.
From my travels is Busan through Seoul and even when we got lost in Andong, I totally felt safe the entire time (though not terribly much when a friend was driving around rather too fast on the narrow Andong streets)
There're few things we Finns are particularly proud of, such as sauna, sisu and our traditional food and I'm sure Canadians have things that their proud of in their culture, just like every nation. What are Koreans most proud of in their culture/what are the things Koreans want to introduce to foreigners the most? Is it kimchi or is it something else?
I'm from Korea and i'm pretty sure that Korea is one of the safest countriest in the world.
But what really matters is where in Korea you live. There do exist some creepy places, thought there aren't many of them. Places like Ansan or Itaewon are loaded with threatening foreigners and even at daytime, it's still dangerous. As for where I live, there is absolutely no threat. Even strolling at 3 am is fine
From the asiancorrespondent:
The number of violent crimes in our country is now at least double the number in the United States and 12 times the number in Japan, a study has found.
Park Dong-gyun, chairman of the Korean Association for Public Security Administration said in a conference at the National Police Agency’s great hall that “in 2010 there were 609.2 violent crimes per 10,000 people in our country, significantly more than the figures of 252.3 in the United States and 50.4 in Japan.”
Lol. I'm from Mexico, and my brother went to Toronto 4 years ago, he said you can see people with their iPhones, iPods or something like that on the bus and they are not worried about someone stealing it from them.. Now you say you feel safe in Korea, OMG. I just can't imagine how it can be!
As I live in Canada, USA and Korea, i can say Korea is TOTALLY safe. young ppl just go around on the street even at 3a.m and nobody thinks that's dangerous. some of my friends(non-korean) even say korea would be the most safest country in the world..
yeah, it's definitely the mentality you brought from wherever dangerous place you came from. Because I'm Korean but live in New York and whenever I visit another country, even though it's safe at night somehow I feel like I'm not safe; yet I see little girls walking around alone. That tells me New York put that mentality of fear in me and I grew accustomed to it. Your story is about how you felt unsafe but did anything actually happen to you? probably not. it was all in your head.