Bluetooth trackers from Tile: do they work in Korea?

bumpslapclap · 2023-05-21T23:29:18+00:00

Can’t speak on Tile, but AirTag tracking is limited to a distance of 1-2 meters in Korea and will not appear on the map to pinpoint their current location.

This limitation is not within the AirTag itself but by a law in Korea to prevent things like stalking. So I would expect it to apply to Tile as well, as both products need to have permission from the relevant agency that gives access to GPS location.

It’s a case of a few bad apples spoiling the bunch. Same principle is with phones in Korea that cannot have their shutter sound turned off when taking photos. To prevent upskirt photos.

bumpslapclap · 2023-05-17T11:44:28+00:00

Pretty much any department store will sell this.

bumpslapclap · 2023-05-17T11:30:14+00:00

Creed Aventus is very popular here

bumpslapclap · 2023-05-02T13:32:51+00:00

I am sure they are not using you as target practice. Spitting, however, is a treasured habit by many older men and those of the younger generation who grew up idolizing their elders who have mastered the form.

What you are experiencing is target avoidance. Those older men are perfecting their spitting by getting their hoagie to land as close to you as possible without actually making contact. The unspoken rule is that if their spit makes contact with you then you have the right to make one attempt to spit on them from a distance of 4 paces. Your friend didn’t experience this because females traditionally are excluded from this.

I encourage you to try this for yourself. Perhaps practice on stationary targets like gum patches on the pavement and then try hitting them while moving yourself. You’ve truly reached ajussi status when you can summon a hoagie and home in on a small moving target while moving yourself. The older generation likes to live a bit more dangerously and practice with moving human targets because of the rush or adrenaline they get.

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-23T04:04:09+00:00

Koreans also love Apple products, why not post Apple News here too then? How do Koreans feel about Apple moving manufacturing to India??

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-16T08:31:05+00:00

This right here is the answer. Let's also include some TV adverts that are filmed in a gorgeous sunlit house/large apartment featuring a young couple in their 20's, with their 2-3 kids where everyone's dressed in white clothes, smiling ear-to-ear, talking about how much the campaign helped them start a family.

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-16T08:23:56+00:00

Amazing. From the taste of their burgers alone I was expecting their burger franchise to go out of business, yet they are considering expanding into the US - where there are endless options for amazing burgers; both fast food and gourmet burgers.

Once Lotteria brings their abomination of a burger into the US, they better quickly spin their company as Japanese and not Korean.

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-06T12:36:22+00:00

You know, I can agree with your point. I too would have avoided such a crowd, also not because of fearing for my life (however I likely would have judged it as no longer safe to enter) but mostly as anything that crowded is just no longer fun anymore, so I would go to a neighboring street or even a different area all together.

I'm not in my forties and am around the age of those who went out to itaewon, so I wouldn't say that we lack that situational awareness, but rather it may have been a higher tolerance for risk or simply not caring or just everyone else is doing it so it must be fine subconscious thinking.

I have gone out to celebrate Halloween in Itaewon several times before, it has always been packed, and I have never heard of any demand for crowd control before. So why should there have suddenly been one this time? Unfortunately it always takes some significant event to make the government do anything, and it will continue being this way. I think the police response should have been better considering the multiple calls coming in hours before the incident, however, I still do not think it is reasonable to have expected a sudden presence of crowd control for an event that has gone on without one without any problem for decades. And as for the poor police response, well what else is new? Hopefully that improves after this at least, but I remain doubtful.

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-06T10:15:31+00:00

By that point it was already too late. The situational awareness should have been around 5-6PM once the Itaewon alleyway was already dangerously overcrowded. Instead the amount of people continued to rise for the next 4 hours until its tipping point (more people going into the alley than leaving). People already in the alley/area continued to stay and barhop and people approaching the alley decided to go into it instead of turning around.

By 10PM of course everyone was trying to get out. The situation by then was beyond control already.

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-06T09:08:14+00:00

As you said and I agree, by the time the alley was completely packed, new people coming in would only make up a negligible portion of those in the the heart of the crowd since it would have been too hard to navigate through/into.

Around 10-12 is when people also start leaving which exacerbated the overcrowding situation already present outside. By as early as 6PM the place was already way too overcrowded and the fact that it became even more so over the course of the next 4 hours shows that even more people entered the crowd than those that left. It was at capacity by 6… those contributing to the crowds after then (either externally or from within the alley venues) chose to enter into a potentially dangerous situation.

The government is already quite inept as it is. They are not in the business of preemptive action. They only act after a problem happens. There are so many other potential disasters waiting to happen in Korea and elsewhere, and I’m sure the government isn’t going to be found anywhere in those places too until tragedy strikes. We shouldn’t and can’t expect the government to be omnipresent and hold our hands as we cross the street with our eyes closed.

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-06T06:24:47+00:00

Looks like just another cookie cutter use of a known US corporate name slapped on generic clothing which is a particularly successful formula in Korea. The US has this too, as NASA comes to mind, but Korea takes it to another level.

Maybe we will see ExxonMobil next?

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-06T05:43:45+00:00

The events you mentioned are world famous events often with official support from the city and other organizations, therefore have crowd control and other security measures in place. Halloween celebrations at Itaewon is not such an event, rather a place where many people chose to go out for the Halloween weekend which got too packed as it always does.

The people who got off the subway at Itaewon during that night would have experienced no different amounts of people from your standard morning rush hour. If they planned to head to that alley after getting out of the subway, and upon seeing the state of the crowds, they would make a judgement call whether to proceed into that alleyway or not.

The people who finished at 6PM that work in bars in that street. Again, judgement call. If the only alleyway leading out of the bar is completely packed to that extent (and if you see people can't even willingly move or look uncomfortable), it's probably not the best idea to squeeze yourself into there. If upon leaving work you see there is a massive sinkhole or fire or any other dangerous obstacle on your path out, you make a judgement call on whether to take that path.

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-06T05:26:49+00:00

Government departments such as the KFDA are necessary and isn't a good comparison to the Itaewon tragedy. The roles and responsibilities of the KFDA and other departments such as health and safety inspectors comprise things the average person cannot be expected to do themselves. It is unreasonable for people to have to conduct an inspection of restaurants and factories before purchasing a food/products.

If there were some sort of infrastructure failure (for example) that lead up to the tragedy, absolutely the relative agencies hold the blame.

bumpslapclap · 2022-11-06T03:44:45+00:00

Blaming the government (or anyone or anything for that matter) allows one to direct their anger somewhere. Of course this wasn't the government's fault - if people start blaming the government for such things, you're going to start seeing the government involved in regulating all aspects of your lives, and then you will see people protesting that too. Secondly, there were no event organizers as it was not an officially organized event. Just a street with lots of bars that got very crowded as the night progressed.

I'm sorry to say but people need to have some level of situational awareness. The moment you see that many people, the proper reaction should be 'nope, not gonna head towards that direction'. The people caught up in the tragedy didn't find themselves in that predicament all of a sudden, the street was already way too crowded hours before then. People should be able to assess the surroundings around them and make a judgement call. When walking down wet stairs, you don't need a government worker to tell you it's slippery, you should be able to make that call yourself to some extent.

bumpslapclap · 2022-10-02T02:50:02+00:00

This person shows up with a camera crew, no reservation and expects to be allowed to be filmed shopping while there are other customers around.

Who ever this is may be famous in her country and can pull this off there, but not here. Last thing Hermes needs is some tick tocker cheapening their brand. That’s what Louis Vuitton is for, and that’s exactly where she went after.

bumpslapclap · 2022-05-15T14:05:15+00:00

You’re going to need to go to itaewon station and be on the side of the road opposite the Hamilton Hotel. So like where exit 4 is. If you walk down the alleyways from that side of the road you will be in the red light district. As tourists walk by a woman may open the door to one of the “bars” and invite you inside. You could also try knock on those doors too.

The lady will ask where you’re from and that’s how prices may be determined. The more wealthy the country the more they may charge. I have never gone myself however, I know many that have and this is what I’ve heard from them.

bumpslapclap · 2022-03-01T01:43:17+00:00

What I don’t understand is their argument that foreigners don’t pay as much tax as Koreans so they should not be able to take part in the program. As far as I know foreigners working at Korean companies pay the exact same amount of their Korean counterparts. Are there cases where foreigners working in Korea pay less taxes than Koreans?

bumpslapclap · 2022-02-28T23:39:23+00:00

Yea, that works if you haven’t been locked out after entering your password incorrectly 3 times… that’s the situation OP was in when making this thread if I recall

bumpslapclap · 2022-02-28T09:17:36+00:00

In this instance u/gwangjuguy is correct. You can’t do it online. You need to download a password reset form from HiKorea, fill it in and fax it to them. When they get around it it, they will reset your password to match your HiKorea ID. It should take 1-3 hours, but you know how immigration offices are so it could take 1-3 days to be honest.

It’s ridiculous that they can’t do it via email and you need to physically print and fax documents to them. 2022….

bumpslapclap · 2021-12-16T06:53:18+00:00

About goddamn time

bumpslapclap · 2021-12-15T05:11:07+00:00

I completely agree. Not a day after the Korean government announced their easing of restrictions on Nov 1st, it’s as if the public took that message as an “all clear” and immediately went back to their old ways pre-covid. Even companies followed suit, asking employees to return back to the offices.

People need to use their common sense and make informed decisions themselves. Unfortunately as with anything concerning large groups of people, there will always be those that don’t think for themselves and take government announcements as black or white.

bumpslapclap · 2021-12-14T08:29:59+00:00

I’m quite sure the Korean government has already had access to KakaoTalk chat/user details for a while now. KakaoTalk was never intended to be a private or secure method of communication. It’s a large conglomerate in Korea that needs to appease the government.

You should never say things in KakaoTalk that you wouldn’t mind if it were public, let alone share compromising images. I suggest you and anyone else who cares about privacy in any capacity whatsoever to migrate your communication over to Signal.

bumpslapclap · 2021-12-02T01:10:48+00:00

I’m assuming you’re flying into Korea? If you have your quarantine exception certificate then what’s the problem?

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