Immigration...........

[Anonymous]

Why would she lie about teaching in Korea?  Sheesh.

She probably did teach English in Korea. She exaggerated some of her experiences there though.

[RW]

That's great Romero..



I would imagine she would have a busy life..

you didn't miss much Fash.....she was a complete flake....she couldn't get enough forum attention so she posted her personal info and when the crazies tracked her down she was offended and called the cops.....part of the "clique" at VF.........claimed to have traveled extensively in Asia, particularly Korea but didn't know shit about the area, culture etc........ :ugeek:

Yeah, I remember I caught her in one fib about Korea. She claimed how widespread tattooing is in Korea and one of her students showed her their tattoo. It's considered a medical procedure in South Korea and they prosecute tattoo artists. The chances of a tattoo artist risking jail by tattooing a kid seems remote.

You might be interested in reading this: http://www.korea4expats.com/article-tattoos-Korea-society-attitude.html">http://www.korea4expats.com/article-tat ... itude.html">http://www.korea4expats.com/article-tattoos-Korea-society-attitude.html

[RW]

She doesn't seem that type Shen.  Sorry.



Regardless of Spart and Odi, Munday is wrong about Leo.

[Anonymous]

You might be interested in reading this: http://www.korea4expats.com/article-tattoos-Korea-society-attitude.html">http://www.korea4expats.com/article-tat ... itude.html">http://www.korea4expats.com/article-tattoos-Korea-society-attitude.html

You are making the same mistake Romero made. There are no laws about having tattoos, but who can do them is quite another matter.

Sitting in an underground tattoo parlor with his arms folded across his chest, 37-year-old tattooist Kang Un explains why things are so. There are no laws specifically about tattooing in South Korea, but medical laws state that only doctors can practice the act of penetrating someone's skin with a needle.



In other words, to be a tattooist in Korea, you must hold a doctor's license.http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/south-korea/090717/tattoos-underground">http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/sout ... nderground">http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/south-korea/090717/tattoos-underground

[Romero]

Tell her I miss her please Ro.  Miss you posting too.

I will, and thanks!

claimed to have traveled extensively in Asia, particularly Korea but didn't know shit about the area, culture etc........ :ugeek:

ghost never claimed to have travelled extensively in Asia. She has been to a few countries there and had simply talked about some of her experiences. She did live and work in South Korea for a while.

Yeah, I remember I caught her in one fib about Korea. She claimed how widespread tattooing is in Korea and one of her students showed her their tattoo. It's considered a medical procedure in South Korea and they prosecute tattoo artists. The chances of a tattoo artist risking jail by tattooing a kid seems remote.

She wasn't lying! It's still taboo, but we know for a fact that some Korean kids get tattoos. It's no shocking surprise that she saw just one single kid with one. The student knew ghost was cool with it so she was kinda excited to show her.

[RW]

It says that in the article but goes on to say they are popping up elsewhere and shutting them down isn't really enforced.

[Anonymous]

She wasn't lying! It's still taboo, but we know for a fact that some Korean kids get tattoos. It's no shocking surprise that she saw just one single kid with one. The student knew ghost was cool with it so she was kinda excited to show her.

It's still illegal, though that will probably change.

As a result, the tattoo industry lurks underground. Most parlors have unmarked fronts to avoid detection by police, who have raided the shops to confiscate tattoo machines and fine proprietors as much as $10,000.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/12/world/la-fg-korea-tattoos-20100912">http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/12 ... s-20100912">http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/12/world/la-fg-korea-tattoos-20100912

No profession tattoo artist is going to risk their livelihoods by tattooing a kid. If the student had one he/she got it abroad or a friend did it.

It says that in the article but goes on to say they are popping up elsewhere and shutting them down isn't really enforced.

Not much IS enforced in Korea until a complaint is made.

[RW]

So in other words what she claimed could be true.

[Anonymous]

So in other words what she claimed could be true.

It depends, if the student got it abroad or from an underground in Korea.

[Romero]

Ink Bomb Explodes in Seoul



Hard to believe, but just a couple of years ago, kids in Korea were still going to jail for tattooing and getting tattooed. But when things change in Korea, they do change quickly.



If you want to check out the state of the ink scene, this weekend features a two-day conference for the tattoo arts, going on at Platoon Kunsthalle in Gangnam. Here is what the organizers have to say:



Ink Bomb International Tattoo Convention is the biggest tattoo convention in Korea, bringing in artists from Japan and the U.S., as well many from the peninsula. Now in its second year, 2010′s event promises to be bigger and better than last year, having upgraded to a larger venue and with a huge roster of tattooists coming to participate.



From 1 pm until 9 pm on July 16th, and 1 pm until the party ends on the 17th, Platoon Kunsthalle in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu (near Dosan 4-geori) will be the place to be to meet tattooists, check out their portfolios, and even get ink done on-site!



http://www.koreagigguide.com/2010/07/13/ink-bomb-explodes-in-seoul/">//http://www.koreagigguide.com/2010/07/13/ink-bomb-explodes-in-seoul/

It's still kinda underground, but it is becoming quite popular.

[Anonymous]

Ink Bomb Explodes in Seoul



Hard to believe, but just a couple of years ago, kids in Korea were still going to jail for tattooing and getting tattooed. But when things change in Korea, they do change quickly.



If you want to check out the state of the ink scene, this weekend features a two-day conference for the tattoo arts, going on at Platoon Kunsthalle in Gangnam. Here is what the organizers have to say:



Ink Bomb International Tattoo Convention is the biggest tattoo convention in Korea, bringing in artists from Japan and the U.S., as well many from the peninsula. Now in its second year, 2010′s event promises to be bigger and better than last year, having upgraded to a larger venue and with a huge roster of tattooists coming to participate.



From 1 pm until 9 pm on July 16th, and 1 pm until the party ends on the 17th, Platoon Kunsthalle in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu (near Dosan 4-geori) will be the place to be to meet tattooists, check out their portfolios, and even get ink done on-site!



http://www.koreagigguide.com/2010/07/13/ink-bomb-explodes-in-seoul/">//http://www.koreagigguide.com/2010/07/13/ink-bomb-explodes-in-seoul/

It's still kinda underground, but it is becoming quite popular.

Marijuana is becoming popular too, but don't get caught with it in Korea. I believe the laws will lighten up about both in the future, but for now tattooing is a medical procedure and weed is the devil's cigarettes.

[Obvious Li]

Ink Bomb Explodes in Seoul



Hard to believe, but just a couple of years ago, kids in Korea were still going to jail for tattooing and getting tattooed. But when things change in Korea, they do change quickly.



If you want to check out the state of the ink scene, this weekend features a two-day conference for the tattoo arts, going on at Platoon Kunsthalle in Gangnam. Here is what the organizers have to say:



Ink Bomb International Tattoo Convention is the biggest tattoo convention in Korea, bringing in artists from Japan and the U.S., as well many from the peninsula. Now in its second year, 2010′s event promises to be bigger and better than last year, having upgraded to a larger venue and with a huge roster of tattooists coming to participate.



From 1 pm until 9 pm on July 16th, and 1 pm until the party ends on the 17th, Platoon Kunsthalle in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu (near Dosan 4-geori) will be the place to be to meet tattooists, check out their portfolios, and even get ink done on-site!



http://www.koreagigguide.com/2010/07/13/ink-bomb-explodes-in-seoul/">//http://www.koreagigguide.com/2010/07/13/ink-bomb-explodes-in-seoul/

It's still kinda underground, but it is becoming quite popular.

Marijuana is becoming popular too, but don't get caught with it in Korea. I believe the laws will lighten up about both in the future, but for now tattooing is a medical procedure and weed is the devil's cigarettes.

in all the years i lived there i only saw one homeless person..it was on the way to lunch and he was sleeping on the street...by the time lunch was over he was gone......no tattoos......no dope although it had to be around....no openly gay people although that has changed somewhat in the last few years

[Anonymous]

It's still kinda underground, but it is becoming quite popular.

Marijuana is becoming popular too, but don't get caught with it in Korea. I believe the laws will lighten up about both in the future, but for now tattooing is a medical procedure and weed is the devil's cigarettes.

in all the years i lived there i only saw one homeless person..it was on the way to lunch and he was sleeping on the street...by the time lunch was over he was gone......no tattoos......no dope although it had to be around....no openly gay people although that has changed somewhat in the last few years

Homelessness seems to be less of a problem in Taipei, Tainan and Kaoshiung too compared to Canadian cities.

[Anonymous]

in all the years i lived there i only saw one homeless person..it was on the way to lunch and he was sleeping on the street...by the time lunch was over he was gone......no tattoos......no dope although it had to be around....no openly gay people although that has changed somewhat in the last few years

Strangely, I saw a fair number of street people around the subways in Japan.

[Obvious Li]

in all the years i lived there i only saw one homeless person..it was on the way to lunch and he was sleeping on the street...by the time lunch was over he was gone......no tattoos......no dope although it had to be around....no openly gay people although that has changed somewhat in the last few years

Strangely, I saw a fair number of street people around the subways in Japan.

funny you should mention that....(this is a true story)...



i was on a three day nightclub crawl with some pals in Itaewon one time and about 3:00  A.M on day three i figured i better go home or the dragon was about to have one of her episodes, so off i go...once i am outside i realize i have no money left and i need to get a taxi home...so i go to the nearest subway because i know they have bank machines there......i go down a long set of stairs/escalators to the main floor which as you know is huge and full of small food stalls etc.......anyway as i am going down i realize it is dark as shit except for the small lights over the exits so i can barely see...when i get down there the entire floor is covered with bodies sleeping there...i guestimate hundreds....i could hardly walk around them to get to the bank machine and withdraw $200....i was a white man in a suit with a bank card and i could see many of them looking at me and guessed what they were thinking......when i got back to the stairs four (believe it or not) black guys blocked my way, pulled a knife and demanded my cash.....we had a bit of a go around and i ended up giving them my cash except for taxi money....that i told them would not fucking happen under any circumstances (yes i was a bit drunk).........in any case i tell this story merely to illustrate that there probably is an underground of homeless, alcoholic people that hide during the day but gather in places like subways at night to sleep etc.......the police in Korea would never allow them to be seen in public. All the time i was in Tokyo same story..i imagine they are there somewhere you just never see them.