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In South Korea, they don't have Lost & Founds at their bus stations.
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The bus drivers don't know where it is; the bus driver who drove you doesn't know where it is, but you called the bus station and spoke to a bus driver!; the ticket ladies are clueless, give you phone numbers that don't work *sigh*; the bus station manager is no where to be found; when you do find him, he seems to not understand why anyone would need to find their lost phone; you talk to his son on the phone, the only person who speaks English, and he assures you that they will call you back, but he never does...*deep breath*... After two weeks of rigamarole, you get your phone back after finding that it wasn't even at the bus station you traveled from, but at the "express" bus station! WHY ON EARTH WOULD THE BUS DRIVER RETURN A LOST PHONE TO ANOTHER BUS STATION? GRRRRRR.
Anyway, my trip to Haeinsa Temple was fun. Being an overcast day, it wasn't a good day for photography, but it was still a good day to lazily visit a temple and hike half a mountain. I hope you enjoyed the photos anyway, even though they're cloudy^
Monday, April 13, 2009
Haeinsa Temple, Daegu
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8 comments:
you were stupid to lose your only contact line in Korea and forgot those people who have tried to help you, unfortunately missing the right time.
please don't spread bad image about Korea like this way. At least they kept your phone, not threw it away. In other countries I don't think anybody kept it for you , but it might have been long gone.
True, someone might have stolen it in Canada or the United States, but that is not true all the time. It only happens sometimes. More than not, if the phone is given to the bus driver, the bus driver gives it to the lost and found. I was SHOCKED that they didnt have a lost and found and learned first-hand why they were implemented in Canada: to save time finding out which bus driver has the lost article.
Public transit?
Don't even start with that libertarian shit.
I'll take that as a yes.
In a competitive transit industry, your bus driver and the management above him would have a lot more motivation to make sure that phone landed in the proper hands (probably your service provider).
But why do they care when they're a monopoly? You're gonna take their buses anyway...
I don't know if it is private or not. Jamie seems to think it is private, but I'm not convinced. Either way, they should have a goddamn lost and found out of a respect for logic and other people.
Are there multiple bus systems that you can choose from?
No, there isnt. and the bus stations there are, suck, so it is probably public considering the ideology of South Korea. The train system is public, but it is also a high-tech marvel. Kudos on that.
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