Seoul has one of the finest public transportation systems in the world. An extensive subway and bus system, which compared to French standards are pretty damn clean, except for the times that people puke on the subway. Seoul also has over 70,000 taxis in service on any given day. Let the complaining commence!
“Taxis are too expensive” – I’ve heard this one on more than one occasion and it baffles me everytime. For fucks sake, if you can’t afford 1900 won for a taxi ride, what the hell are you doing out so late?
“I can’t get a taxi between 12 and 2am” - Ya think? God bless the free market system. The last time I checked driving a taxi is a business for most drivers and only taking the best fares when everyone and their drunk friend is clamoring for a ride just makes good business sense.
“Taxi drivers are rude” - Could someone please show me a group of taxi drivers in a major city that are NOT rude? By all accounts Seoul is the third largest city in the WORLD. Do you really expect them to be cordial? If you do, perhaps you need to move back to Kansas.
Taxi drivers always try to rip me off - A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place. If you’re silly enough to get into a taxi and NOT know where/how you’re getting to your next destination do you really expect taxi drivers to do you a favor and take you the shortest possible route just because you’re a foreigner? Not only that, I can’t think of too many other places in the world where a taxi driver will take you exactly where you need to go in the shortest amount of time possible when you are clearly a foreigner and you cleary have no fucking clue how to get there. One last thought: Taxi drivers are equal oppurtunity assholes, they try to rip off the natives too, it just happens less cuz Koreans can..well you know..speak Korean.
Note: If you’re an adoptee you can always play the “I’m an adoptee” card which usually garners sympathy(in the form of “I’m so sorry”) and a better chance at not getting fucked over. If kyopos play the “I’m an adoptee” card they will be immediately struck by lightning and be banished to the 7th ring of Hell, also known as Indiana”
March 13, 2008 at 2:15 pm
i gotta admit, i do that “hey i’m an adoptee” thing when in sticky situations. sometimes i forget the effect of that sentence in regular situations, but for taxis… yeah… never forget that magic sentence.