A Couple Drinks After Hapkido

Wake up, wake up, wake up, it's the first of the month! Well...here in Korea I don't get paid until the 10th of the month, so I won't be cashing any cheques just quite yet.

Finally made a plan to go out with some people form Hapkido for a few beers after the class (it ends at 1030). Me, Simon (from England), the instructor, another Korean student and Sungku went to the local German brewhause for some grub and yummy draft beer. The German beerhause's usually have the best beer around and this one was no different.

Got a plate of friend chicken, a plate of fire chicken and a plate of smoked big feet for food. Yes, you read right, smoked pig feet. It came with the meat stripped off it and of course the bone with the ankle and foot to gnaw on if you so desire. I had a couple of bites, it tasted pretty much like smoked ham, but after all the chicken I was already pretty full. Things were goin well and everyone in the place was having fun.

Then the night turned around.

Some guy that was drinking in the place was cutoff by the woman who ran the Hause and just lost it. He went to the kitchen area (which wasn't sectioned off from the tables really) and started yellin' at her and swearin. She stayed calm and dealt with it fairly well. He kept stepping forward like he was gonna hit her, but she stood her ground and just kept saying leave.

He almost made it to the door, but then turned back around, started yellin and screamin again. The Hapkido instructor gave the cops a call and just stayed calm. The guy obviously hears him and looks at his and says stay out of this, you don;t wanna get hurt (or somethin of the such) and continues berating the poor woman.

'Course the whole time I'm thinking... this guy has no idea there are a table of Hapkido people who arn't too happy with his antics. Anyways, he and his shy buddy take off and so we think all is ok. Back they come in 1 minute with a couple bottles of Soju to show the lady up. He never really drank any..sat down..got up..yelled more. Then chucked one of them (full) against he wall by the kitchen. The women came down and lost it on him, and both there were kaiseky's and ship'pal's tossed all over the place between them (SOB and fuck to translate them). I thought we should have tossed him out of the place by then, but the instructor wouldn't let us get up. There was another table across from us with two middle aged couples and a 4 year old girl. I felt the worse for the little girl..poor thing has to witness that. Anyways, her dad and another little skinny guy has to get up and keep this drunk fuck from hitting the women. Finally, as always, the cops show up after everything has happened (even though the copshop was right across the street) and they take the guy outside and calm him down.

Supposedly if you get rowdy and crazy like that there is no drunk tank here in Korea. A $60 fine and he's on his way.

The women who ran the Hause was really ashamed and brought us a couple rounds of free beers, but it was us who felt more sorry for her.

So, off to the taxi and on our way home from the crazyness. Actually we just got into more. The taxi was flying through red lights and stop signs Harbin style and as we pull up to a red light with cars in front a blue truck with two guys pull and and start swearin at this guy as he passed them without his signal (that is why there were mad, Sungku translated). The driver says and points to pull over. So..we bust a right, pull over and the truck pulls in front. Out jump these two scrawny little things, taxi driver jumps out, rips off his shirt to show a whole back tattoo of a dragon and grabs these little guys.

No full punches thrown..but he taxi has both of these guys by the collar and is just swinging them around everywhere. The one guy gets on the cell to call up the buddies. The taxi driver just keeps walking around and throwing these guys on the ground, they get up, he gets them by the collar again.

Me and Sungku watch for a bit thinking they will end it at that, but after two minutes this is still goin on, out we go and into another cab.

Holy my. Not our night. Sungku was right rattled but I enjoyed the drunken displays and crazy ness a bit. Kinda reminded me of Harbin! We left unscathed so it's just another tally in the old Asian randomness nights.

Havin' a party at my place this Saturday, so hopefully more positive stories next week!

Colin