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Serious_Fun
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 Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:04 am Post subject: Expats in Asia - |
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Yes...this forum is a bit slow recently...the post about General Asia was a dud (I take full responsibility for that   )...so I'll try again:
I found this article entitled "Expats in Asia" on Slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/id/2152088/entry/0/
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| Busan's expat-teacher scene is not, after all, populated with Ivy League grads and cosmopolitan elites. Academically inclined Asia enthusiasts generally end up in China or Japan; trust-funded New Age backpackers head for Thailand or India; educated Koreaphiles typically gravitate toward Seoul. So, for the most part, the Busan expatriate scene comprises people who think that the $24,000 a year they can earn teaching English is great money. This was certainly the case when I arrived from Kansas�and the expats I met here were people like me: graduates of no-name colleges who grew up in places like Randle, Wash., or Moncton, New Brunswick. Some of us had debts to pay off; others were rebounding from bad marriages or dead-end careers. Few of us were trained as educators or independently interested in Korean culture. |
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saint57
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| Before this gets bumped to the Korean forum, I'll say that I spent just over a year in Busan and the Busan expats were no worse or better than the expats in any other city. If I had to go back (which I would never do), I'd go back to Busan rather than Seoul. There were a few expats I wanted to punch in the head, but the same goes for some of the expats I met in China. I'm sure a lot of people think I'm one of those idiot expats. |
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Serious_Fun
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| saint57 wrote: |
Before this gets bumped to the Korean forum, I'll say that I spent just over a year in Busan and the Busan expats were no worse or better than the expats in any other city.
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I posted it here out of laziness...I am not registered for the Korea forums.
The author of the piece seems a bit jaded...his article was a bit negative towards the TEFLers...  |
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