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[Newbie]

Seems like the powers-that-be in this country do a lot of Dave's surfing. Here's my case:

1) posters complain about pushing/line jumping etc. KTX and Arirang start showing "good manner" promotions telling Koreans to wait in line

2) poster, justifiably, mock that yellow haired Sunkist freak: The last 5 times I've seen that commerical he's been cut out.

3) posters complain about TV lingerie models all being foreigners (that goes back a good 5 years): Now, one can easily see Koreans doing it.

4) posters complain about Hyori getting biatch slapped into the car commercial: it's yanked.

5) posters, again 5 years ago, complain about kids pointing and saying "meegook, meegook" cuz not everyone is American: Now, all kids point and say "waygookin, waygookin"

Any more?

Yes, yes. Of course I realize this all doesn't mean that Dave's is actually changing Korea. But that it does, in fact, mean that there are actually some like minded Korean folk out there trying to get their country up to speed

[yingwenlaoshi]

Dave's says, "Double yingwenlaoshi's salary."

[Ozabout7or8]

Newbie, you have unlocked, or uncovered, one of the hidden potential uses/outcomes of all the discussions on this board.

We all know that the posters of Dave's don't numerically represent any more than half or a quarter of all teachers staying in Korea, however the latest thing in the West, is companies latching onto the Web 2.0 concept of having online communications with their customers in an authentic context.

In this regard, Korea Inc should be (and I hope is) looking at the opinions on this board as constructive critizism worth it's weight in gold.

How much is it worth? Probably $millions to them to be able to see authentic comment on ways to improve their product, from a real live audience who are passionate and honest in their comments.

Dave could be a multi-millionaire....

[JongnoGuru]

This just in over Dave's ESL Cafe Wire Service:

Unconfirmed reports claim the ESL Boom in Korea has officially gone bust, being replaced by the C(hinese)SL Boom. Sources in Shanghai and Beijing say the ESL Boom there is also losing steam, dwindling down to a sort of "ppphutt" sound, known locally as the "ESL Fart".

Meanwhile back on the ROK, tens of thousands of suddenly jobless teachers are making their way overland to the country's two major international ports of Busan and Incheon, hoping to book passage to Cayenne in French Guiana aboard Portagee trampers sailing under the Liberian 'flag of convenience'.

Upon hearing the news, a defiant Paris vowed to halt the impending linguistic attack on its Latin American possession, threatening to send a flotilla of gunboats to force the invaders away from the coast and over to the soon-to-be-recommissioned penal colony on Devil's Island.

In financial news...

Guru's stocks soar their daily limit two weeks running!
Guru's tenants recontract at the new rate without much squealing!
Guru finds world's biggest diamond in desk drawer!


Now to the weather. Guru sez: Warm, hazy skies over much of the Republic, with increasing chance of mugginess in the late afternoon. Or rather, "increasing chance of me getting mugged by an angry mob of ESLers in the late afternoon".

[Yu_Bum_suk]

It's probably a case of just about every westerner Mr Kim, Park, & Lee know complaining about those things and somebody finally deciding that they need not make Koreans look quite so foolish, as much as they may love looking so.

[in_seoul_2003]

It wouldn't surprise me that 'influential' people (not presidents but more like people who make it their life passion to lobby) frequent the board. I remember when all foreign instructors had to go through that Korean culture seminar in Youido. One of the Korean guest speakers, and a university prof, I beleive, admitted that he fought with forieigners on a Korean ESL cafe all the time. He didn't specify which one.

Likewise when you have organizations like VANK that are very anal and illusory about the Korean image why wouldn't they frequent a board about Korea for foreigners in Korea?

[YoshaMazov]

I always found it strange that every Fubu store in Korea only has ads with white people

[Newbie]

#6. posters complain about whitey not being seen on TV with Korean girls... just yesterday I saw a music video in which the K-girl's love interest was a white dude. Of course, he ended up getting drunk, burning down his trailer and dying. But hey, it's a start!