Site Search:
 
Speak Korean Now!
Teach English Abroad and Get Paid to see the World!
Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index Korean Job Discussion Forums
"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!"
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

Please Teach Me English
Goto page 1, 2, 3  Next
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Hotel Cheonan



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: Gwangju

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:02 pm    Post subject: Please Teach Me English Reply with quote

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2003/10/29/200310290040.asp

Just read about this new movie on the Korea Herald website. Wonder why it took so long for a movie like this to come out? Wonder what the female Aussie teachers will think?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
ulsanchris



Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll be sure to watch it when it comes out on dvd
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Joe Thanks



Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Dudleyville

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Please Teach Me English Reply with quote

Hotel Cheonan wrote:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2003/10/29/200310290040.asp

Just read about this new movie on the Korea Herald website. Wonder why it took so long for a movie like this to come out? Wonder what the female Aussie teachers will think?



The adopted sister angle. Yawn. Gratuitous. If only they'd pay attention to the real problem facing adoptees in Korea.

The rest sound sweet, but I will remain suspicious until I see it, namely because Korean cinema's writers and directors tend to portray foreigners as if they never really know any, personally.

Cheers,

Joe
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Hotel Cheonan



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: Gwangju

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder if this will be shown entirely in Korean, or have subtitles?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
katydid



Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't wait for this to come out on DVD. I would love to gather a bunch of us together, pile into a DVD Room and see it for ourselves. I'm looking forward to how they portray the hagwan/conversation environement. They already threw in the "zoo/Jew" joke in the article.
Just one question about the plot. WHY is the Australian girl in love with a pizza delivery guy? I'm not being classist, it's just that whenever I talk to a pizza delivery guy, the conversation obviously isn't much. Does the Australian teacher know much Korean?
And with the Korean guy in "love" with his teacher, you can guess where this movie's plot will go, especially with the "nerdy" Korean girl student in the mix. She'll just take off her glasses and va va va voom. Rolling Eyes
The day we see a Korean guy end up with a Western girl in a movie is the day the sun will turn black.
Anyways, if you're lucky enough to see the movie in the theaters, drop a review in here. I'm very intrigued to see what others think.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Yahoo Messenger
Joe Thanks



Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Dudleyville

PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another Korean film with a brief hagwon bit is HAPPY END.

Cheers,

Joe
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
posco's trumpet



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Beneath the Underdog

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



Last edited by posco's trumpet on Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:32 am; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail
Gord



Joined: 25 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

katydid wrote:
Just one question about the plot. WHY is the Australian girl in love with a pizza delivery guy? I'm not being classist, it's just that whenever I talk to a pizza delivery guy, the conversation obviously isn't much. Does the Australian teacher know much Korean?


As a former pizza delivery guy, I can vouch that they get a lot of attention. They face dangerous traffic and keep their promise to arrive, they bring a gift, and then they depart with a promise to return again when called.

Same with carpet cleaners. All the women.

I wish I could say I was kidding.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website
Mashimaro



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gord wrote:

Same with carpet cleaners. All the women.
I wish I could say I was kidding.

Don't forget the pool cleaners.. or is that just in porn Smile
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Ryst Helmut



Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

TAKE THAT! Cathy heads off with a Chooncheong dialect boy! That's me, BOO--Ya!

Ok, other than that, I am sure to stage protests in front of this female cracker's house for everything she did/did not do in the film.

Then slit the directors gonads....no way in hakwon could they come close.


Shoosh,

ryst
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Chonbuk



Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Vancouver

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two questions for the women who read this board:

--do you usually go to work with 'peeping cleavage'?
--do you ever consider if your "honeyed words and tanned *beep* are conspiring to create the ultimate ethno-linguistic-sexual fantasy" in your male students?


Hi-

I never never go to school with cleavage showing. I'm in a college, and it wouldn't be acceptable. The boys- young men- are the least of my worries actually, it is the ladies, who notice every stitch of clothing that I wear and that are my harshest critics.

My male students are smartasses, they think that by writing a lousy report and than by adding the sentence- Teacher you are pretty will get them an A. I had to laugh at that.

Actually the problem is more with Korean older men, especially colleagues, and supervisors they stare embarassingly so. Cleavage isn't needed- they always stare.

That movie looks funny. I can't wait to see it.

wonder what the other ladies have experienced.

cheers.

Chonbuk
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Hotel Cheonan



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: Gwangju

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well after all this is a movie, so I guess the potrayal of the teacher wouldn't be realistic. I wonder if she gets mistaken for a Russian hooker in the movie?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
oldfort



Joined: 09 Oct 2003

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
and Cathy pines away for a pizza deliveryman with a sexy Chungcheong Province accent.


Is this the sexiest Korean accent out there? really?

just curious Confused
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Ryst Helmut



Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oldfort wrote:
Quote:
and Cathy pines away for a pizza deliveryman with a sexy Chungcheong Province accent.


Is this the sexiest Korean accent out there? really?

just curious Confused


You bet, and I's has gots it down!!

Actually, Koreans (especially females) find it humourous...as how would a cracker know this dialect? They say it's so cute, and ask me to say 'X.'

Yeah, they could be mocking me, but these are friends who never really heard me talk in Korean....so shocked when it comes out.

Oh, one person absolutely hates the dialect...one of my Korean teachers. I teach the other students how to speak this dialect....and it drives the professor batty....my others find it fun, and talk like it sometimes.

Shooshoo Wink

Ryst
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Zyzyfer



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Teach me Choongchong.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours
Goto page 1, 2, 3  Next
Page 1 of 3

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling.
Contact Dave's ESL Cafe
Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved.

Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group

TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe
TEFL Courses, TESOL Course, English Teaching Jobs - TEFL International