Salaryman night on the town AND Pot Head teachers

Salaryman night on the town...
Adam and Joe go Tokyo...decide to interview drunken salarymen! It's a hoot!

Clip from BBC3 show Adam and Joe go Tokyo: episode 6. Adam explores Japan's drinking culture by going on a night out, Salaryman style, ending up in a capsule hotel.

Adam and Joe go Tokyo: Host Bar

Clip from BBC3 show Adam and Joe go Tokyo in which Adam and Joe try their hands at being hosts in a host bar, with predictable total lack of success.

Adam and Joe go Tokyo - Top 5 Japanese insults

Clip from BBC series Adam and Joe Go Tokyo, in which Adam and Joe look at the top 5 Japanese insults


Caught this on the Marmot's Hole a little earlier...interesting read.
Enlightening Foreigners, One Pothead English Teacher at a Time
Hey, pothead English teachers — don’t ever say Korean prosecutors don’t care about you.

MBC reports that with “foreign drug crimes” skyrocketing recently, the Incheon Prosecutor’s Office has held a program aimed at educating and enlightening foreigners about Korea’s drug laws.

Said Min Gyeong-cheol, an Incheon prosecutor, “During investigations, I could experience a lot that [foreigners] are smoking drugs like marijuana because they can’t sense the differences between Korea’s legal culture and the legal culture of their own countries. So in this case, punishments are important, too, but so is explaining sufficiently the differences in legal culture.”

The lecture was attended by some 100 foreigners. According to MBC, foreign English teachers showed much interest in the punishment laws for drug offenses, with which they were, reportedly, unaware. Said a Canadian English teacher, “In Canada, if we smoke marijuana, we just get fined, but in Korea, the punishment is much harsher, with jail sentences of up to five years.”

See that, prosecutors are enlightening Canukistanis already!

MBC concludes, “There are some 16,000 foreign English teachers in Korea. The number of foreign teachers is expected to increase even more in the future with the reinvigoration of English education, so in order to stop the spread of drugs, it appears the strengthening of immigration screening of foreigners and educating foreigners before hand about drugs will be needed even more.”

Oh, Yonhap ran this story, too. According to the Yonhap story, some 100 foreign English teachers were invited to the lecture, which dealt with, well, Korean drug law, criminal action procedures and the “evils of drugs.”

Incheon Prosecutors Office has no immediate plans to hold the lecture again, although they may if they feel it helpful.See original at the Marmot's Hole