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WHy are you teaching in Korea?
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Why are you teaching in Korea?
To gain experience
16%
 16%  [ 8 ]
Couldn't find a good enough job at home
12%
 12%  [ 6 ]
To make money
30%
 30%  [ 15 ]
Other reason (please state)
40%
 40%  [ 20 ]
Total Votes : 49

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da_moler



Joined: 11 Nov 2006

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:37 am    Post subject: WHy are you teaching in Korea? Reply with quote

Thought this could be interesting.. be honest!
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jessie-b



Joined: 17 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about all of the above?
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Atavistic



Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

To get away from Bush.

I am a certified teacher with an M. Ed. I can find a job at home.
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reactionary



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is that your only reason, Atavistic? Are you going back when he is no longer president?

I don't really understand why you would come to Korea only because of a temporary president. In what way did he affect you personally, besides his annoying face on the television screen at night (which you still get here)?

Baffling.
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spliff



Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Atavistic wrote:
To get away from Bush.


That's a clever way to put it...girl trouble, eh? Wink
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uberscheisse



Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

too much BS tax in canada that rarely gets used practically

no job that will pay me what my time is worth

too many douchebags convinced that canada some kind of cultural panacea. and then they follow me here and get all butthurt about how i think gord downie is not the second coming of yeats.
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reactionary



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

reminds me of my coworker. he was irritated at all the canadians with flag tattoos and the motto "i am canadian" - i guess ripped from some beer commercial. good to know that stupid nationalism isn't reserved for americans and koreans
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Next up on the list of hot topics that "might be interesting": What country do you come from?
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wanted to live in Korea.
I did not want to live in the US.
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shaunew



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Calgary

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

First came here for travel, just got out of the Canadian military did traveling there liked it, so wanted to do some more but in an area that was more safe.
Second time my my wife did not like Canada could not get a good job so we came back so she can make alot of money again.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My reason for coming in the first place,
my reason for signing on for a second year
and my reason for still being here after nearly five years
are totally different
and NONE represented on the poll options!
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spliff



Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldn't be so proud if I came from a country where it's considered a good opportunity to go to Korea and teach English... Shocked
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uberscheisse



Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

spliff wrote:
I wouldn't be so proud if I came from a country where it's considered a good opportunity to go to Korea and teach English... Shocked


indeed - but then again... you were born where you were born. it's not your doing - so why be proud of it?

being proud of where you are from is stupid. it wasn't your idea. you didn't have to work to be born there.
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VanIslander wrote:
My reason for coming in the first place,
my reason for signing on for a second year
and my reason for still being here after nearly five years
are totally different
and NONE represented on the poll options!


Word.
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twg



Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

uberscheisse wrote:
spliff wrote:
I wouldn't be so proud if I came from a country where it's considered a good opportunity to go to Korea and teach English... Shocked


indeed - but then again... you were born where you were born. it's not your doing - so why be proud of it?

being proud of where you are from is stupid. it wasn't your idea. you didn't have to work to be born there.

But if those two cousins didn't have the freedoms they did, he wouldn't have been born.
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