More on Liability in Auto Accidents
by Brendon Carr
Today’s Korea Times has a short piece reporting another odd traffic-accident judgment, yet another reason why I don’t drive in Korea and you shouldn’t either. But now according to the piece in the paper you have to also be careful who you ride with:
The Seoul High Court has ruled that if a drowsy driver is the major cause of a car accident, then the people in the car also will be held accountable, saying it is the responsibility of the passengers to prevent the driver from falling asleep.
The rules here concerning liability are different enough that it’s not worth it to get behind the wheel of a car. Or in the passenger seat either, it seems.
Tip of the hat to the Lost Nomad blog, where I saw his entry on the same topic—good comments over there too.
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Not too difficult to understand when you consider that this is a group of people who were still exterminating entire families—out beyond first cousins—in cases of criminal offenses (certainly those involving “politics") as little as about a hundred years ago. The collectivist mentality persists—and at this point may be all that links the ROKS and NORKS. Long live “We’ve”.