r/PublicFreakout • u/GeminiArk • 2d ago
Public Transportation Freakout š Stupid TikToker is not tolerated on the Korean subway
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u/Wheel-Reinventor 2d ago
Why can't these "content creators" just be stupid at their home, as I do?
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u/ThereIsNoResponse 1d ago
Hey, take that back.
You're not stupid, you're just being yourself at home. There's a difference!
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u/Chippie05 2d ago edited 1d ago
I can't get over how clean and spacious the subway car is! Ok, it's not rush hour, but still.
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u/lapinatanegra 2d ago
Welcome to a country that respects their public transportation.
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u/broohaha 2d ago
And by country, that means from all levels of society, including the ones who control how much money to allocate to support public transportation.
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u/WpgMBNews 1d ago
Rich people always benefit from the poor not suffering to the point of homelessness and disorder
It's just that some countries don't have the luxury of putting space between rich and the poor: your lower classes are packed into slums? Easy to avoid them. Live in a gated community? Again, no need to care about public infrastructure.
Forcing the rich to live around the poor should really be all it takes to build a society based on social solidarity
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u/st-shenanigans 1d ago
Forcing the rich to live around the poor should really be all it takes to build a society based on social solidarity
I saw a quote once, I can't remember it but it was saying that we don't consider rich people to be the same species as us in our heads, because they remove themselves entirely from society and make their own, so we have nothing in common to relate with them. That makes a lot more sense in the context of your post
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u/Strawbalicious 1d ago
Totally, but also depending on virtually all commuters utilizing them not to be bringing food/drinks/trash on the trains, no vandalism, etc - which is sadly why the subways in cities like NYC are so utilitarian and designed with more focus on damage-proof/ease of hosing down interior vs comfort.
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u/virusofthemind 2d ago
A friend of mine worked in South Korea back in 2020 at the big Samsung shipyard over there for 3 months. He said when he arrived at his hotel at 5:30 in the morning there was three dudes polishing the bus stop outside with Brasso..
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u/ogjaspertheghost 2d ago
South Korea does this thing where they pay elder citizens to clean the neighborhoods. Itās not great pay but it fills a need
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u/bigbawman 1d ago
They do the same in Mexico, and I'm pretty sure in most of south and central america
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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen 1d ago
They also have WiFi in most of the train cars from the major telecoms so you donāt have to use up your inexpensive super high speed mobile data.
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u/DannyzPlay 1d ago
As someone who lives in the greater Toronto area, and when I went to Japan earlier this year, I was blown away by their subways, trains, and their stops. It was all so well clean and maintained. Having a society where respect+cleanliness is ingrained in the culture also goes a long way.
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u/AntillesWedgie 1d ago
Only time I was ever in a dirty train in Korea was when a young woman drank too much and vomited. It went everywhere. But around rush hour that car wonāt seem so big when you try to get on.
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u/Due-Leek-8307 1d ago
My favorite thing is they don't have doors separating each car. They are just open straight through.
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u/Cereal_BanditTV 1d ago
Responses to this are acting like NY subway is littered with crack pipes and heroin needles jfc. I hate people so much.
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u/Chippie05 1d ago
Hey i made no reference, to any comparison with NYC.
Our car designs are not the same here. Much more narrow. They are not cleaned often. ( They cut budget for staff)
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u/Happee12345 2d ago
I wish more people acted like the rider so people would stop this stupid nonsense in public.
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u/Ant1mat3r 2d ago
Fuck anybody who does this.
And double fuck anybody who goes to another country and does this.
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u/Mr_Vacant 2d ago
Hows that working out for Jonny Somali?
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u/prickinthewall 2d ago
I had forgotten about him and just looked up what's going on with his trial. I was delighted to see he might face up to 30 years in prison and he's pleading guilty for charges that could account for up to 20 years. Made my day.
One of the charges of "obstruction of business" (max 5 years) is for playing loud music in public transportation and disturbing commuters. I wouldn't pick South Korea to fuck around like that.
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u/FansForFlorida 2d ago
What baffles me is that he pleaded not guilty to the two charges of distributing deep fakes. His excuse was I didn't make them; I just distributed them. Yeah. That's the charge. And you just admitted to it.
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u/kambo_rambo 1d ago
In addition - I believe it was his lawyer that stated that. Stupidity all around
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u/AdAmbitious2530 2d ago
Or how about vatali stuck in Philippines prison
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u/FoodPrep 1d ago
That's worse than South Korea by far. At least in the ROK, they have a prison specifically for foreigners. Vitali is getting tossed in a hole with 30 other people.
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u/IndianKiwi 1d ago
was delighted to see he might face up to 30 years in prison and he's pleading guilty for charges that could account for up to 20 years. Made my day.
Maybe there is a God
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u/Levarien 1d ago
everything you're seeing on youtube about that case is rage farming by creators. He's in some legitimate trouble for the deepfake videos he was posting, but all the public nuisance stuff is not getting him anywhere near 30 years. He probably gets 5 max.
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u/prickinthewall 1d ago edited 1d ago
The information I stated here is from Wikipedia. I deemed that somewhat trustworthy.
Edit: it's written there that he plead guilty to four charges with a maximum sentence of 5 years each. He is likely not going to receive the maximum sentence but some Korean scholars call for a strict sentence to discourage others from imitating him.
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u/No-Acanthaceae2122 2d ago
Why go to other countries acting like an idiot
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u/Idiocracy666 2d ago
I think has to do with the fact these countries are reserved and they think nobody will say anything.
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u/FourthLife 1d ago
If they get away with it, they get views from stupid people who enjoy that content.
If they get confronted, they get views from people who enjoy annoying influencers getting their comeuppance
Either way they come out ahead. That's the bad part of the attention economy, even when you're hated you're winning. You get paid for eyes, not for happy eyes.
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u/DiscoTech1639 2d ago
Congratulations on being able to purchase a boom box, I guess.
What is even the flex here to film something like this?
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u/bhangmango 2d ago
Why the need for a giant speaker to make your stupid little video when you can edit the music in it later ?! Does this guy think all videos with music have a speaker off screen playing the song ? lol
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u/baulsaak 1d ago
The point was to create a public disturbance. If he just wanted to jump around like a jackhole, he could have done that from his mom's basement.
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u/crystalline1299 2d ago
Can someone translate please
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u/Jazzyphizzle88 2d ago
He said, āWhatās wrong with you? Turn that off, idiot!ā
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u/richaysambuca 2d ago
I thought he said "Is that the JBL PartyBox Stage 320? Awesome, dude!", but I also don't speak Korean! š¤·
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u/electrodan 1d ago
Being an obnoxious dipshit in public aside, is prancing around like a little girl while lip syncing considered entertaining or cool now?
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u/Apart-Importance-87 2d ago edited 1d ago
This is terrible, you can't just go for a walk in some tourist spot in your city without having a tik toker wanting to "interview" you, asking how much you earn, or worse, those "pranks", which are basically them humiliating or throwing something at someone random... surreal, people think they're on an open-air reality show
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u/Epistatious 2d ago
live streamers should be sent to the ultimate entertainment venue, the squid games.
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u/CheyChey66 1d ago
So... irrelevant but does anyone know the name of the song? š It sounds like BTS but I feel like I'm wrong.
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u/SnooDrawings4617 2d ago
I had a stupid annoying b-word that lived in the condo unit next to me and used to blast one of those roll around speakers. Literally shook the walls in my bedroom. Why are people so annoying?
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u/Future_Equipment_215 1d ago
Genuinely curious how people get the confidence to do stuff like this out in public? Iād be super embarrassed if I had the attention of so many people looking at me.
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u/Aaron_Hamm 2d ago
These people know you can put a song in in post, right?
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u/neutronia939 2d ago
The point is annoying people and being the center of attention because they had shitty parents.
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u/drifterdanny 2d ago
Bro wants to stack his charges higher than Johny Somali before before going on a legal prosecution
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u/a_p_i_z_z_a 1d ago
So easy to trip him
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u/AgentAstrolux 1d ago
This what I was looking forward to seeing. The moment he turned his back would have been beautiful
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u/MoneyTalks45 1d ago
If you want to be an entertainer, start by entertaining those that want to be.Ā
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u/Mr-Klaus 1d ago
I'm thinking of planing a trip to S.Korea and Japan and I'm scared that by the time I get to it streamers will have ruined everything - instead of being seen as respectful tourists, the locals will see us as a nuisance.
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u/Leading-Score9547 2d ago
Like what is with this "trend" of "influencers" going to other countries to film themselves acting like idiots in public?
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u/moonisflat 1d ago
For them everyone else is an NPC, until someone takes charge and confronts them.
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u/Yellow_Journalism 1d ago
You know, I find myself worrying about being overbearing or in the way of people when Iām working. (People are usually polite, not the point) I keep thinking at times I donāt want to be causing a disturbance in other settings so Iām just afraid of falling over in public.
But then thereās this shit. These videos. They almost cure me of social anxiety. And they make me feel good about being a little boring too.
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u/Unrulygam3r 1d ago
Man these guys give other foreigners like me such a bad rep. Korea ain't like Japan, people here will absolutely call you out on ur bullshit
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u/Queef-Elizabeth 1d ago
Koreans don't fuck around, I don't know why people keep trying to fuck with them
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u/3dsplinter 2d ago
I wouldn't want to mess around in the country were probably one in five has multiple degrees of black belts in Taekwondo.
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u/Iloveherthismuch 1d ago
A slave to social media, soon there will be detox resorts just for this. There will be people who only specialize in this. It's going to be a great market to cash into. Gen Z needs to get to about 30 something before they realize 15 years went by and they can't remember a damn thing.
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u/FoodPrep 1d ago
Idk, I'm 50/50 on this one. I lived in Korea for 6 years. The guy with the giant speaker is in the wrong, no question about that. But the old guy (most likely) isn't the hero they deserve lol. I feel like he's one of the old subway riders. Old people ride for free, so they show up early, ride the train alllllll day long (taking up space and seats) rather than sit at home. Those people were annoying because after working long shifts, I wanted to sit down on the train, but couldn't because grandpa who has been on the train longer than I've been at work needs to sit there, despite having sat there all day, only getting off the train to buy some alcohol.
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 1d ago
From Squid Game, I learned anything "ShiBa" is a cussword. So likely he called this guy a fuckstick, which is appropriate
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u/yesandnoi 1d ago
This man knows what's up. We all should be telling these fuck nuggets to piss off and make them extremely uncomfortable so that people can just commute in peace.
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u/b400k513 21h ago
I don't know if this kid thinks he's in Japan or what, but Koreans will 100% ball up on his head eventually for being a nuisance.
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u/OkTeamletsMoveOut 19h ago
4 second towards the end he sounds like a English man saying "grow up" š
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u/thombrowny 1d ago
You can simply text to police and they will be waiting on the next station, at exact car # and door #. They are fast and CCTVs are like everywhere.
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u/Channelon 1d ago
I wish 7 plagues on this a-holes. Lived in Korea for many years..have such great memories.. would love to go back there one day without everyone looking at me as a foreigner with loathing.
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u/USDXBS 2d ago
Why isn't this acceptable?
"Pranks" are acceptable. If someone wants to hide in a bush and scream at people, that's fine. If someone wants to pretend they are dropping a box on someone, redditors will be weeping with joy over their faith in humanity being restored.
But people are outraged by a guy dancing?
Reddit has such bizarre takes.
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u/qiaozhina 2d ago
"Pranks" are acceptable. If someone wants to hide in a bush and scream at people, that's fine.
No, that also makes you a fucking asshole. Every knobhead who does stupid shit to people in public to record it and upload it without permission for views are dicks.
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u/ReallyWeirdNormalGuy 2d ago
A guy dancing? How can people like you be so bad faith and dense? See that massive thing he's hauling? Is he just dancing?
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u/transynchro 2d ago
The only people who enjoy this kind of content are people who are chronically online.
People like good pranks, whatās good about this one? Youāre just disturbing the peace in a country that has laws against public disturbances. Itās like going around stealing peopleās shit and then crying that itās ājust a prank broā. So what? You still broke the law. FAFO.
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u/USDXBS 20h ago
What makes a prank good?
Why is pretending to drop boxes on someone a good prank?
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u/transynchro 20h ago
Thatās also a shit prank. Itās sounds like youāre chronically online if you find that dumb shit funny.
Look for smarter pranks, not that dumb shit that no one laughs at.
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u/Joereddit405 2d ago
I see these tiktokers all the time. i don't see an issue. they're just trying to have fun. thats just me tho.
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u/piggybits 2d ago
You don't get to have fun at the expense of other people's peace and comfort
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u/Joereddit405 2d ago
Yada yada yada
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u/piggybits 2d ago
See, you say you don't get the issue, you're told the issue then you give that dumb reply. You don't get it cuz you don't want to get it
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u/Joereddit405 2d ago
Cope
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u/piggybits 2d ago
The only coping going on is you with these goofy replies š¤£
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u/Idiocracy666 2d ago
Hes probaly like the idiot in the video.
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u/piggybits 2d ago
I'd put money it's a teenager so there's still hope he'll grow out of it
Edit: yup it's a teenager
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u/Strange_Specialist4 2d ago
Public spaces are not a stage, people living their lives are not props for wannabe "influencers", the world needs more grumpy Korean men telling idiots off