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omonatheydidFor cheap, risky thrills, nothing beats a drag race.
Find a deserted stretch of road at least 400 meters (0.25 miles) long, like the highway to Incheon International Airport, round up a competitor, and drive at speeds of up to 200 kilometers an hour (124 miles an hour) to see who can get to the finish line first.
It turns out drag racing is incredibly popular in Korea, and not just for juvenile delinquents, as police found when they started a crackdown on the dangerous sport.
According to the Traffic Safety Department of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency yesterday, 146 illegal speed racers were caught for engaging in dangerous driving, which is prohibited by the Road Traffic Act, which was amended in 2009. The police issued arrest warrants to two racers and are investigating the rest.
“In the past, police officials could only issue speeding tickets to the drivers, but this time we were able to investigate them for the first time [under the new Road Traffic Act] for disturbing other traffic,” said a police spokesman.
The 146 drivers included such high-income professionals as a baseball player, a pro golfer and baseball player, a plastic surgeon and a lecturer at a national university. Also nabbed was a Marine, a civil servant, a housewife and a high school student. The cars they raced included a Hyundai Tuscani and Genesis, along with expensive foreign cars such as a Porsche Carrera S, a Ferrari 360, a BMW 335i, a Mazda RX7 and a Nissan GT-R.
The 146 racers have participated in 710 drag races from 2008 to December last year, police said, on Seoul’s Bukak Skyway; Namsan Sowongil; Incheon’s North Port; Oi Island in Siheung, Gyeonggi; and Galma Mountain in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, said the police.
The drivers also engaged in so-called drift races, which are done on steeply curved roads, such as on mountains.
The police said one of the drivers surnamed Bang, 28, runs a motorsports company and has been running an unregistered school that teaches drifting techniques to amateurs and holds competitions.
The two drivers were charged with “obstruction of traffic,” a felony that carries a penalty of revocation of driving licenses for two years.
Source: joongangdaily
Find a deserted stretch of road at least 400 meters (0.25 miles) long, like the highway to Incheon International Airport, round up a competitor, and drive at speeds of up to 200 kilometers an hour (124 miles an hour) to see who can get to the finish line first.
It turns out drag racing is incredibly popular in Korea, and not just for juvenile delinquents, as police found when they started a crackdown on the dangerous sport.
According to the Traffic Safety Department of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency yesterday, 146 illegal speed racers were caught for engaging in dangerous driving, which is prohibited by the Road Traffic Act, which was amended in 2009. The police issued arrest warrants to two racers and are investigating the rest.
“In the past, police officials could only issue speeding tickets to the drivers, but this time we were able to investigate them for the first time [under the new Road Traffic Act] for disturbing other traffic,” said a police spokesman.
The 146 drivers included such high-income professionals as a baseball player, a pro golfer and baseball player, a plastic surgeon and a lecturer at a national university. Also nabbed was a Marine, a civil servant, a housewife and a high school student. The cars they raced included a Hyundai Tuscani and Genesis, along with expensive foreign cars such as a Porsche Carrera S, a Ferrari 360, a BMW 335i, a Mazda RX7 and a Nissan GT-R.
The 146 racers have participated in 710 drag races from 2008 to December last year, police said, on Seoul’s Bukak Skyway; Namsan Sowongil; Incheon’s North Port; Oi Island in Siheung, Gyeonggi; and Galma Mountain in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, said the police.
The drivers also engaged in so-called drift races, which are done on steeply curved roads, such as on mountains.
The police said one of the drivers surnamed Bang, 28, runs a motorsports company and has been running an unregistered school that teaches drifting techniques to amateurs and holds competitions.
The two drivers were charged with “obstruction of traffic,” a felony that carries a penalty of revocation of driving licenses for two years.
Source: joongangdaily
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Date: 2011-01-25 03:18 am (UTC)Well they had to do something with all those cars that sit in the background of MVs. Who the drivers are is kind of interesting though, different from here.
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Date: 2011-01-25 03:52 am (UTC)The first person I thought of was Bang Cheol Yong.. LOLZ that would be so cool.
GT-R > everything else.
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Date: 2011-01-25 04:08 am (UTC)this is teh AWESOMENESS.
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Date: 2011-01-25 05:44 am (UTC)RuPaul ruined me.
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Date: 2011-01-25 06:25 am (UTC)haha fuck yeah
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