Phnom Penh - A Korean driver killed five members of one Cambodian family while speeding under the influence of alcohol, police said Monday.
Police said grandparents Yiet Tann, 44, Chrun Kimsry, 43, and their daughter Yeit Srey Sros, 24, died instantly when the unnamed Korean collided with their motorbike late Saturday, and Sros’ daughters Hun Phalnyta, four, and baby Hun Phalnyta died in hospital.
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‘We did find out he is Korean but he refuses to provide a name or cooperate with our investigation and he speaks no English,’ the traffic police official said.
Like Gord Sellar says:
Next time someone throws around the stereotype about how Westerners in Korea are drunkens sot who behave badly, remind them of that Korean guy who went drunk driving in Cambodia in July 2008, killed a family, and refused to tell his name to the cops (and anyway cannot speak English or Khmer). Ask them when was the last time a Westerner did that in Korea. Seriously, ask them.
And don’t accept the thing about the tank and the two schoolgirls on the country road back in 2002: the drivers weren’t drunk, two girls is not a whole family, and it was, after all, a mistake. The driver responsible was almost crying afterward, and clearly shaken up by it, by all eyewitness accounts I remember from the time.
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Koreans in Cambodia...
Ever been to Siem Reap? Just between the city and the airport there's a little stretch of Korea town. It's nothing but hotels and restaurants that speak nothing but Korean and cater to the Korean tour bus groups with Korean food. God forbid, you know, you go to another country and actually have to try new food or speak a different language.
If you ask the locals about Koreans, they will claim that they are the worst tourists in the world. They're rude. They scoff at Cambodian food. They never tip. They push and shove. They scream and shout obscenities.
And, apparently, they get shitfaced and plow into whole families and refuse to talk to the police.
I hope this guy sees the inside of a Cambodian prison for a long time.
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