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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:20 am Post subject: Weird Korea University survey |
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Lots of Korean students get send out to do surveys of foreigners as part of some university class. Usually it's "how much do you like korea? very much? very very much? or more than your own mother?" I don't mind doing them. The kids need to get bodies. I usually play the awe struck tourist vs the grizzled ESL teacher. "Oh I love Korea! Everyone is sooo friendly!"
One day I was in Insadong and these Kodae students had one that was kind of bizarre. What was weird, nearly every option seemed kind of insulting to Koreans. I kind of maybe some quick "scans" with my digital camera:
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Mr Crowley
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| They need to have the answer , all of the above, on the list. |
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ldh2222
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| If anything's weird, it's more like, "Weird KU Foreign Professor's Survey". |
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Cliffhanger
Joined: 07 Sep 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| Mr Crowley wrote: |
| They need to have the answer , all of the above, on the list. |
I agree. This survey assumes Koreans all behave in the same exact way. The way I (don't) interact with Koreans on the street is different for everyone. Also assumes I go around smiling and saying hi to every Korean I see or expect the same from them.
 Weird survey.
I like #7 answer 1. *check* |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| I'm just amazed at how good the english is. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| blackjack wrote: |
| I'm just amazed at how good the english is. |
Yeah that kind of impressed me. The bit about monkeys had me wondering if some English instructor helped them write it. |
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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: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| The questions aren't "weird" given this is a high context culture built a lot on indirect communication and nonverbal cues. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Cliffhanger wrote: |
| Mr Crowley wrote: |
| They need to have the answer , all of the above, on the list. |
I agree. This survey assumes Koreans all behave in the same exact way. The way I (don't) interact with Koreans on the street is different for everyone. Also assumes I go around smiling and saying hi to every Korean I see or expect the same from them.
Weird survey.
I like #7 answer 1. *check* |
Koreans like to think they act the same way. I don't mean that in a derrogatory sense. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm guessing that was written completely by one of their native speakers. |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Location: Your computer screen
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I would like to see the results. |
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