Fight, fight!

Last night turned out to be rather interesting.

After hanging around at Tombstone, Matt, Anne, Kristina and myself decided to head over to Xion (a Korean soju and hof bar with a wicked atmosphere). Actually, it was Kristina's idea. The rest of us just went along with it. My biggest ambition was just to get some sleep.

After sitting down at our table, I announced that I wanted nothing to eat or drink. Anne ordered water and Matt ordered a Bud. Kristina decided that every place in Korea, not owned by foreigners, required that we order food to go along with our drinks. While this is often true in the RoK, it's not true of every single place. It didn't seem to be the case here anyway. Well, Kristina decided to order food anyway (I found out later that this place did require you to order food. The waiters just didn't know how to explain that to us). When we told her that none of us wanted food, she got quite pissed off. She tried to explain away the "insult of not ordering food" to the waiter by calling me a liar in Korean (I appreciated that...). Anyway, that set the tone for the rest of the night. Matt and myself were busy teasing Kristina's hot temper, while Anne just stayed cool and chilled out. Somehow my defending of Matt's "rude British behavior" makes me a copycat of him. At least he can keep his cool... or so I thought.

About this time, the girls decided that they were going to leave. Probably a good idea. They didn't go anywhere though. As they were getting up, a very intoxicated Korean girl decided that it would be a wise move to sit between Matt and I. In a way it was nice, because she was very attractive. She started rambling on in broken English about this and that. I decided that I'd had enough of everything and left the bar.

On my way home, I ended up at Tombstone(no surprise). I spend all of five minutes there. As I was leaving down the stairwell, Lisa (one of the owners and gf of one of the Canadian owners) called my name. I spend a few minutes talking to her; telling her that the music was repetative and that there should be more variety. Maybe I should've been DJing that night... She asked if the bad music was why I was leaving. I said no, I just wanted to go home before daylight today. She said that she understood that. After some more chit-chatting, my happy friend gave me a nice friendly hug and told me to she'd see me tomorrow. I learned a cool new handshake.

As I was leaving, I saw Matt and the girls leaving Xion... with a group of Koreans yelling a lot. One of the Koreans was really pissed off and yelling at Matt. I guess he was the intoxicated Korean girl's boyfriend. I heard later that Matt kept telling the guy to let the girl sit with him(was that a good idea???), and the boyfriend got up and started yelling and slobbering in Matt's face. Matt pushed him and he fell across the table. When I saw them, Matt was trying to escape to Tombstone. The Korean guy kept getting in his face. During this time, his friends (and now crying girlfriend) were trying to get him to leave Matt alone. Matt was at his wits end. After a couple of punches, the Korean guy was on the ground... with Matt's hair in his hand. Both men were on the road. The Korean had Matt's hair in a deathgrip, while Matt was trying to get away. The other Korean managed to get his prying hands off after a few minutes. I escorted Matt into the bar enteranceway, while the girls decided to high-tail it away. Coincidingly, Blair, another drunken forienger, walked onto the scene. After seeing part of what happened, he came to the conclusion that these Koreans were racist pigs. The angry and jealous Korean guy roared at Blair. Blair roared back. The two animals were doing some sort of a drunken war dance, not unlike what you might see two lions or apes doing on the Discovery Channel. One started pushing and swinging at the other, and I decided that this was a good time to get Blair the hell out of there. Somehow I convinced him to walk home, and somehow the angry Korean's friends convinced him (well, dragged him away kicking and screaming) to leave the scene. I thanked one of the Korean guys for being a good guy by shaking his hand and giving him some funny gesturs about drinking too much, which he returned in like manner.

Who's fault was it? Was it the girl, who apparently had a boyfriend, that decided it was a good plan to sit with us? Was it Matt, who had insisted that this guy's girl sit with him? Was it the jealous boyfriends fault for getting mad at Matt for wanting his "girlfriend" to sit with him?

Probably a combination of the three.

Since there's been some strange happenings going on at the girls apatment, we figured that it would be a good idea to find the girls and make sure that they made it home okay. We eventually caught up with them, only to be yelled at by Kristina. She was insulted that we were offering our watchful male eyes. She told Matt that "he owed her, for "embassassing" her" at the bar. She would not tolerate us playing the role of the gentlemen.

I'm really not sure what to think.