what scum bag taxi drivers here??? Not only do 99.9% of taxi drivers take you exactly where you ask in your, usually, poorly spoken and drunken Korean, but will run the red and often round down the change to make things easier...
Well I would imagine 100% of cabs in Korea would take you where you wanted to go.
Run the red lights? Awesome! Nothing better than defeating the purpose of getting home using a designated driver when I could do a better job plastered behind that wheel.
And my post had nothing to do with speaking drunken Korean (although honestly--how hard is it to say the general station of where you live then say 왼쪽,오른쪽,직진 repeatedly).
I remember my first trip to Itaewon the group I was with insisted the driver do not use the highway. I of course was too wasted to care and thought nothing of it. I later learned on my own it was for good reason--the difference was at least 10,000 won the drivers were overcharging foreigners who didn't specify taking the highway. Because you're essentially talking the difference between a straight line and a circuitous "S" overlapping the straight line. And that's just Itaewon, they've pulled the same thing in Hondae, Jamsil, and other parts of Seoul.
Korean cab drivers are no different than any other cab drivers I've experienced. They'll rip you off unless you tell them not to. Nothing new.
