The police on Jeju have launched a crackdown on Chinese tourists due to them committing 95% of petty crime by foreigners on Jeju island:
A female owner of a restaurant in Yeon-dong, Jeju, lies face-up on the ground (indicated by red circle) on Sept. 9 after she was assaulted by eight Chinese tourists, who refused to pay for their food after the owner told them not to bring in alcohol from outside the restaurant. [JEJU WESTERN DISTRICT POLICE PRECINCT]In downtown Jeju on Sunday night, booming sounds echoed down the streets as three drunken Chinese men pounded on a video arcade in front of a game room. A few passing women were so startled they let out shouts of surprise, but the men only kept on whooping loudly.
“After a Korean woman was murdered in a cathedral in Jeju,” said Park Soo-jung, a 32-year-old resident of Jeju, “seeing big Chinese men scares me.”
On Sept. 22 in Yeon-dong of Jeju, an area often crowded with Chinese visitors, police officers tried to prevent two Chinese tourists from jaywalking.
“Do not jaywalk!” the officers called out to them in Mandarin Chinese.
One of them, a 42-year-old Chinese man surnamed Ma, reportedly answered, “Why are you picking on us when everyone else is jaywalking?”
Ma was charged 20,000 won ($18.26) for breaking the law. He was just one of about 40 found jaywalking within two hours in downtown Jeju.
“After the cathedral incident, we’ve heightened the crackdown against crimes committed by Chinese tourists,” said Kim Chang-hyun, head of a local police team in Jeju. “Once the sun sets, I start worrying what kind of crimes committed by Chinese tourists I’ll be seeing that night.” [Joong Ang Ilbo]
Fine so chinese are not shining examples of tourists, I wonder though if they are being singled out.
Burma Bob
7 years ago
Last fall I met some Chinese friends in Cheju. They were kind of sophisticated world traveler types. They were aghast at how their fellow Chinese tourists behaved. They surmised that what they were seeing were Chinese of the lower classes out of the country for the first time. “We actually heard some of them at breakfast this morning saying they were surprised that there was free toilet paper in the public restrooms…so they took all of it with them.”
At the airport when I left I was shocked at the measures the Koreans had to take to get the Chinese to behave with some semblance of decorum, stand in lines in an orderly fashion, and above all, not just leave packaging from their duty free purchases thrown away just anywhere.
![A female owner of a restaurant in Yeon-dong, Jeju, lies face-up on the ground (indicated by red circle) on Sept. 9 after she was assaulted by eight Chinese tourists, who refused to pay for their food after the owner told them not to bring in alcohol from outside the restaurant. [JEJU WESTERN DISTRICT POLICE PRECINCT]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/jmnet/koreajoongangdaily/_data/photo/2016/10/04202501.jpg?resize=610%2C379)
Fine so chinese are not shining examples of tourists, I wonder though if they are being singled out.
Last fall I met some Chinese friends in Cheju. They were kind of sophisticated world traveler types. They were aghast at how their fellow Chinese tourists behaved. They surmised that what they were seeing were Chinese of the lower classes out of the country for the first time. “We actually heard some of them at breakfast this morning saying they were surprised that there was free toilet paper in the public restrooms…so they took all of it with them.”
At the airport when I left I was shocked at the measures the Koreans had to take to get the Chinese to behave with some semblance of decorum, stand in lines in an orderly fashion, and above all, not just leave packaging from their duty free purchases thrown away just anywhere.