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Korean Police portrayed as rubbish


Korean Police officers in these horror films are never professional, lazy, appear to be untrained and unfit to serve.

Their detectives however, appear to be hard working types.

I find this a real contrast from Western Horror where Police appear to be trained and follow proceedure yet are either completely ignorant to what is going on or caught off guard before they can act or react to the threat.

Has anyone else noticed this trend and is there a reason behind it?

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Probably because Korean police are as bent as a two bob not just like most third world countries - low wages = low performance , dishonesty etc ...sadly!

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In this case it seemed, to me, more that they were just small town rural police who were not prepared to deal with that kind of crime.

You see this in western stuff too. Twin Peaks for instance, or many episodes of The X-Files.

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