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how to contact
I know this was 6 years ago but do you know how I could contact anyone from this league? I am in Bundang right now teaching English and am dying to play baseball again!

You saved me
Thanks.

Amateur Baseball in Korea
I will be teaching English in Korea and am interested in playing baseball somewhere when I arrive in the Seoul area. I played some college ball and would like to know more. Could you help me out?

Dakgalbi please!
Hello. I'm currently staying with relatives in bundang and looking for great places to eat! Would appreciate directions on the best dakgalbi ever and any other recs also greatly appreciated. Had dakgalbi in Los Angeles but no quail eggs. Was ok. Can't wait to try the real deal! Thanks!

I agree
I'm a middle school student in Korea, and I totally agree about what you said. Korean middle school students can solve calculus problems in a few minutes, but they have a hard time doing creative research projects.

HA
VERY FUNNY!!! Those buttons only work if you sit on the toilet

Well Done
Wisely said

base ball hat
what does the hat look like? Can you send me a picture. thanks

Glaring Incorrect information
You paint Korea as this idyllic, peaceful place, but it isn't at all. Every aspect of Korean life is somewhat 'gang-like' in nature. Abuse on weaker, younger people is not uncommon. You do/say something wrong, you get hit. Bullying is very common and very harsh in Korea. Power relations and hiearchies are more strict and harsh. On top of that, most people think the Korean police are incompetent and generally have no idea what they're doing. And behind close doors, they severely beat suspects into confessions of crimes. They don't confess out of guilt. They confess to stop the beatings and sometimes torture.

Clarity
Seems a bit late to comment on this article but I feel compelled to add to the discussion anyway. It is generally accepted that statistics indicate strict gun laws do NOT reduce crime. For every example (such as yours) of nations with strict gun laws and low crime there is an opposite example of a nation with high accessibility to guns and low crime. A good example here is Switzerland which requires a good portion of the populace to keep an assault rifle at home and be competent in its operation yet has about half the homicide rate of South Korea. Likewise, case studies of areas that end up passing stricter gun laws do not support the argument that harsh gun laws reduce crime. Crime has many, many factors that lead to its prevalence in a country such as culture, level of heterogeneity, stratification of economic classes, ability of the poor to survive comfortably, drug laws, medical accessibility, etc, etc. Gun laws is not a factor that has any large correlation to crime statistics. Furthermore, there are a few main issues I'd like to bring up at this time. First, the argument that having a gun does not dissuade criminals only works because of the tendency for the majority of the populace NOT to carry guns. If criminals EXPECTED to be met with firearms during every attempted mugging they'd rethink their career choice very quickly. Secondly, strict gun laws are nearly impossible to enforce in a country with as large a population and as extensive borders as the United States. If a criminal wants a gun there is little we can do to stop him from getting it off of the black market. Lastly, it seems like you are making a huge generalization of Korean culture. Yes, their culture is arguably less diverse than American culture given heterogeneous background of the U.S. as a nation of immigrants as well as having a large territory for different cultural groups to remain fairly isolated and thus increase the cultural diversity but Korea's culture still has diversity. Not every South Korean is a happy, gentle smiling lady or fellow just wishing to smile and wave at every passer-by. South Korea has it's own muggers, rapists, gangs, and professional criminal organizations just like every other country in the world. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

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