Almost Arrested in Korea. What Fun!

What a fun day.

So my building is full of Russian hookers(for real) and there are millions of men who drive home drunk everyday in Korea, but I get busted for hopping a fence at the subway station when my T-card fails to work. A T-card is a card the allows you to ride the subway for only a dollar, it saves you the trouble of having to buy a ticket each time you ride the subway. Tonight my T-card didn't set the machine off like usual, so I did what I've seen a million Koreans do in this exact situation. I jumped the gate.

Mom, you can stop reading any minute now. I don't want you to have a heart attack.

The subway security guards were on me like white on rice(it seemed like a place specific metaphor), and I found myself surrounded by three yelling, angry, middle aged men, which felt like overkill. It was a very "Paul Blart Mallcop" reaction. So I tried to explain myself calmly and pointed to my T-card, explaining that it didn't work. I repeated "Me an ham ni da", which is Korean for sorry. And I tried to see the humor in the situation. I figured that if I acted freaked out or upset they would assume that their was a reason for it. So in the spirit of having fun, I taught a security guard how to say " You broke the law and now you must pay" in English. Very Terminatoresque.

I was detained for two hours while they searched for a subway security guard who spoke English. When he finally arrived, I handed him 1000 won(a dollar Canadian), and explained the situation. He let me go at once and told me to "enjoy my stay in Korea".

It was a pretty fun experience.