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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Whiner, did you have to interview for the job in the U.K? |
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| Remember seeing a posting for a job in NK elsewhere through the British Counsel. They wanted to interview the candidates in the UK. Maybe this didn't apply to you. |
Same job. I get my interviews sometime late this month.
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| They also have a casino for foreigeners in Pyongyang. |
Yeah. I don't gamble and heard those tables are less than reliable anyway. |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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Hey, you say you have your interivews later this month.
Then, how do you know you go this job, then?
If they don't like you after the interview, then you don't go - is that right? |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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If you do want to learn any Mongolian, I'll give you Nina's number. I know one word: "Say-no" means "Hello".
You got her number too, Derrek? The waitress at Polly's? Niiiice. After all that, we have something in common....Maybe too much. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a very interesting account of a British English teacher's year spent teaching in North Korea:
A Year in Pyongyang |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
Here's a very interesting account of a British English teacher's year spent teaching in North Korea:
A Year in Pyongyang |
I'm only half-way through the account linked by Dogbert but I'm already fascinated. It's a great read.
He's a pretty good writer and seems impartial (even though he admits arriving as a socialist).
As one who leans to the left but has a capitalist bent I find this article to be highly revealing.
Read it!! |
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RR
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| I hope so because the Korean War should take its rightful place alongside the war in Vietnam as a permanent symbol and reminder of the hideous excesses of post-war US foreign policy and the dangers of irresponsible militarism. Also it is impossible to understand why North Korea has developed as it has over the past thirty-five years without a true appreciation of the holocaust that swept the country between 1950 and 1953. |
Ahem...
1) Who started the Korean War? Not the US.
2) Who brought on this holocaust? The US, or the North Koreans and their 1,000,000 Chinese?
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| In the twenty years after the war it achieved what was by all accounts a miraculous economic recovery. The towns and cities were rebuilt. The countryside was revived. Industries were restored and expanded. The transport network was repaired. By the early seventies the DPRK had a very healthy economy by the standards of developing countries. It had achieved remarkable success, not only in terms of living standards but in creating an economy that was independent and to an extent immunised against the effects of first world recessions, unlike many developing countries, including quite prosperous ones, whose economies still depended on a few primary commodities to pay for imported goods, and whose industries were substantially owned by first world capital. |
If you were looking for a good example of tired 1970's style leftest appologizing for brutul and corrupted regiemes that call themselves "communist"... well, there ya' go....
Yawn...
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RR
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Oh, and don't forget this little beauty:
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| The other ingredients for the economic miracle were discipline, organisation, frugal living and hard toil, which were guaranteed not by terror but by outstanding totalitarian organisation and ideological motivation supplied by the Workers' Party of Korea, under the apparently highly autocratic leadership of Kim Il Sung. |
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Medic
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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Whiner well done. I'm assuming your interviews will be by telephone, and that they are just a formality.
Seems as though you did all the hustling for the job over the telephone. Is that right? |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| What's the food - grocery shopping situation going to be like? |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
If you do want to learn any Mongolian, I'll give you Nina's number. I know one word: "Say-no" means "Hello".
You got her number too, Derrek? The waitress at Polly's? Niiiice. After all that, we have something in common....Maybe too much. |
Nina was literally the first foreigner I met in Korea almost a year and a half ago. My first night out in Itaewon -- there she was in Geckos (she wasn't working at Pollys yet -- she quit, by the way). We dated for a few weeks, she spoke almost no English, and of course, it crashed. But some five months later, she called me out of the blue and spoke English. We went out numerous times after that. I was shocked she learned so much so fast. We became sort of like brother/sister after that. We went out numerous times after that, and she seemed to contact me a lot in-between her boyfriends. She's still a friend, but she hasn't answered my calls for a few weeks. We went out to Limelight together after her last night at Pollys, and she told me she has a new guy these days. I imagine I'll here from her again if/when that goes under.
By the way, Great Wall knows her too, and I think he about fell over when she told him why we broke up *laugh*. He'll have to PM that one -- hahhaaha! |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| As for the stamp, I do not know if I will get a stamp before or after I leave here. I do know that as an almost certainty I will have to go to N.K. via China. |
I recall reading elsewhere that instead of a stamp in the passport there is a stamped paper clipped to it and it is removed when you leave North Korea. Can't remember where I read it though. |
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Cthulhu
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| She's gone, eh? Lost her number. oh well. I don't live in Seoul anymore. Rock on. She had nice eyes. |
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ratslash
Joined: 08 May 2003
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sounds quality and good luck gwow. how much they paying you?!?!  |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| The poor women will be throwing themselves at you out there whiner, I wonder if Kim Jong allows his country's gals to marry foreigners? |
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