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Why are you teaching in Korea? |
To gain experience |
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Couldn't find a good enough job at home |
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To make money |
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30% |
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Other reason (please state) |
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da_moler
Joined: 11 Nov 2006
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:37 am Post subject: WHy are you teaching in Korea? |
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Thought this could be interesting.. be honest! |
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jessie-b

Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:48 am Post subject: |
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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.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Atavistic wrote: |
To get away from Bush. |
That's a clever way to put it...girl trouble, eh?  |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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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!
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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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...  |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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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...  |
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.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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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...
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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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...  |
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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