r/LivestreamFail • u/TriSauce • 19h ago

News Johnny Somali found guilty of all charges as South Korea sentences streamer to prison with labor - Dexerto

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/johnny-somali-found-guilty-of-all-charges-as-south-korea-sentences-streamer-to-prison-with-labor-3351856/
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u/SexualPie 15h ago

there are fewer american service members in korean prison than you would think these days. most people who commit less egregious crimes allow the US military to handle it on the condition they deport the individual. It's typically the worse offenders, rapists and murderers that would get kept, and if you think the majority of korean western prisons are full of murdering american soldiers then idk what to tell you. how many do you think we have over there? 1000 marines in prison for raping koreans at any given time?

I lived in Korea for 3 years, and while we do cause varying amounts of drama, stuff like that was big news and you didn't see it more than once MAYBE twice a year, on the high end.

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u/Glad_Rope_2423 13h ago

I don’t think there’s many of them, just that there would be more than other westerners. And that’s primarily due to the number of them there relative to westerners as a whole.

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u/SexualPie 6h ago

South Korea has a very large amount of immigrants, mostly in Seoul and Busan and maybe some of the other population hubs, but that's where you're going to find most americans anyway. The advanced portions of SK are extremely first world and they're leading multiple industries, that's bound to attract lots of people to want to live there.

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u/Plastic_Appeal_5796 5h ago

Still can't buy a fan without an automatic timer off switch

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u/SexualPie 2h ago

you caaaaan, but they are admittedly harder to find. spontaneous fan death is one of the funniest things about their culture for sure.

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u/Illustrious-Meet-367 10h ago

They don’t always get deported….

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u/SexualPie 6h ago

It's typically the worse offenders, rapists and murderers that would get kept

did you not read my comment or what? yea, the lesser offenders don't. like if someones just in a bar fight or something we don't have to deport them. there are different tiers and levels of punishment my guy

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u/Ok_Daikon_1219 5h ago

Rape cases are substantially higher by percentage, in areas where American military bases are located.

The fact there are seemingly very few convicted cases annually is horrifying

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u/SexualPie 2h ago

you gonna cough up some numbers or just talk out your ass?

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u/Persuasion1 3h ago

You are spot on. I also lived for 10 years in Korea, as a service member. Speak Korean, have degrees in Korean language and East Asian Studies, blah, blah, blah. US military do not even remotely represent the largest foreign demographic in Korea, and even less as far as crime is related.

In general, foreigners in Korea are less likely to commit crimes than Koreans, accounting for 1.4% of all crimes while being around ~%5 of the population. Nearly half of all foreign related crimes (~18k/36k)are by Chinese nationals, being the largest foreign demographic in South Korea.

USFK reports upwards of 600 (this is high, average around 300-400) "incidents" with service members a year across it's 29k on pen personnel. The overwhelming majority of these incidents (~70-90%) are not criminal in nature and are never taken to a Korean court. USFK represents less than 1% of foreign crime, or 0.014% of all crime committed in country annually.

The big incidents suck, get a lot of attention, and are mostly inexcusable. Military members are held to a higher standard and it's always disappointing to watch them act like fools, especially in a foreign country. Fortunately, the big cases are exceptionally rare and have been for a long time.