Crime Watch

It was just a regular Saturday night in Itaewon, Seoul. We had our usual fill of beer and whiskey throughout the day, got hungry and decided to go to a Brazilian all you can eat meat and steak restaurant called Cocobananas or something to that effect. 

On our way out of the restaurant after an impressive feed of steak feeling reasonably respectable, we were stopped by a cameraman who says he's doing a piece on the nightlife in Itaewon and would like to interview us. We agreed that it would be a good idea to interview us, he seemed friendly and genuine enough. He starts off asking general questions like, How do you like Korea? How long have you been here blah blah.. Then he asked what the main differences are between Ireland and Korea. After giving fairly insightful answers to his previous questions, Andrew jokes that the only difference is that in Korea you can get alcohol 24 hours a day. The guy wrapped up the interview with some more general questions, and we were psyched that we were going to be on tv the next week.

So it's the following week and we're all gathered around the tv waiting for the show to come on. The news starts then they cut to a bulletin on foreigners in Korea. It was like an episode of crime watch except darker and more seedy. They had clips of foreigners vomiting and fighting in the streets. Then one clip of a guy throwing a young Korean girl over his shoulder whilst dragging another girl down an alley .... cut to us two eejits with big smiles, and of the almost 15 minute interview, they only show about a 7 second clip of Andrew saying, "The only difference is that in Korea you can get alcohol 24 hours a day, Stephen then begins a sentence with, "ha ha, yeah and als.." CUT to some guy lying in the street trying to stand up and failing miserably. 

Of the entire segment, we were the only people whose faces weren't blurred out!