Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Scotticus]

[Cynical Optimist]

I like the idea of making fun of this kid's own physical flaws, but I'm going to try to take the high road so that if the *beep* hits the fan, the kid has no excuse and nothing bad he can say about me.

Next time he's just going to get kicked out of class for a long time -- let his parents know they're wasting their money because his behavior is so bad that he can't stay in the class and I won't teach him. Hopefully his parents will give him the "discipline he deserves" after that.

At my old hogwan, when kids said mapahgee, they were doing it in a happy, playful way. I didn't mind that too much. But this kid is just trying to bust my balls. I always try to give kids plenty of opportunity to improve their behavior before I just kick them out of class. This kid is now out of opportunities. The next little thing he does, out he goes. I know he doesn't care about that too much -- many of these trouble kids like getting kicked out because they don't have to study. I guess the key is letting the parents know that he's getting kicked out and missing class time.

Parents rarely show up inside the hogwans I've worked at, at the same time that their kids are there. Usually they come in real fast, pay, and walk out. So no, I've never had to (or really felt the need to) scold a kid in front of parents before.

Spliff, if I got a toupee, it would be the most ridiculous thing -- seriously, I'm only missing about that first 1"-2" of hair, with a little thinning beyond that.

[Ryst Helmut]

[The_Conservative]

[poet13]

"But this kid is just trying to bust my balls. I always try to give kids plenty of opportunity to improve their behavior before I just kick them out of class. This kid is now out of opportunities. The next little thing he does, out he goes."

Don't punish that boy. Punish everyone else. Wall sits, pushups, hands up, holding books with outstretched arms, take away a privilege or a game. Peer preessure in this country is enormously powerful, more powerful than in the west (imo). The other students will take care of your "problem".

[Rapacious Mr. Batstove]

Laughin' at my hairline.....that's a paddlin'

[cassette]

I get it too but its more lighthearted teasing than full on disrespect. I also get Ma-Doo-Gi (grasshopper) cause my name is Matthew and there really similar right?

[Alyallen]

[Young FRANKenstein]

[cdninkorea]

Isn't it wrong to punish innocent people? Making the whole classs do wall situps or whatever in the hope that they will be your pawns and punish the target student doesn't seem very ethical.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Now he's bald.

[ruffie]

It seems to have died down for me - we have some new teachers and they are the point of interest right now. What I don't like is the kids trying to touch my head..for one thing, it is extremely rude in Korean culture to touch someone's head, and secondly, their dirty grubby hands give me head zits. They even try this in front of Korean teachers, at which point I loudly ask the kid "Do you touch Mr. so and so's (Kim, Park, Cho whatever) head? No? Then don't EVER touch the WEEGOOKIN'S head! The kids get it, plus I have the added pleasure of shaming the Korean teachers.

If you aren't bald or have a receding hairline, then you can't really understand the feelings this taunt gives you. It's not so much that they are making fun of your baldness - you get that everywhere - some people think it's a sad thing, some think it's sexy. The real annoyance of the situation is that it throws everything bad about korea in your face. Their lack of respect for foreigners, their pathological vanity, their instinctual need to torture and humiliate anyone who is different, the fact that they are all sheep who find that pathetic little comic and his silly routine still hilariously funny day after day, month after month, year after year. Now when I hear the taunt, It just increases my pity for a people who are, for all intents and purposes, doomed to always be backward, laughed at, even despised. Through their own making.

Korea itself is essentially like that poor comic who does the routine. Repeating the same crap over and over, to an audience made up of only themselves, killing themselves laughing at a joke that nobody else gets, or will ever get.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[yingwenlaoshi]

You guys should work for CDI.

[Juregen]