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KoreanAmbition
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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject: Have you been in Korea for around 10 years??? |
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Have you been in South Korea for near 10 years ?
What has kept you there?
Was the reason the same as when you went there?
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faster
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: Re: Have you been in Korea for around 10 years??? |
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| KoreanAmbition wrote: |
Have you been in South Korea for near 10 years ????
What have kept you there?
Was the reason the same as when you went there? |
1. Twice that
2. Many things
3. Nope |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Have you been in South Korea for near 10 years ????
What have kept you there?
Was the reason the same as when you went there? |
I've been here for about 12 years.
I came for adventure/change and found it, most of the time.
I think so. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Have you been in Korea for around 10 years??? |
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| KoreanAmbition wrote: |
Have you been in South Korea for near 10 years ????
What have kept you there?
Was the reason the same as when you went there? |
yes
many things
no, they evolved over time |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject: Re: Have you been in Korea for around 10 years??? |
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| KoreanAmbition wrote: |
Have you been in South Korea for near 10 years ????
What have kept you there?
Was the reason the same as when you went there? |
1. Over 12 years.
2. First, because I hadn't learned the language well enough. Second, it was easy to find a job.
3. I stay now because it's basically home. |
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Biblethumper
Joined: 15 Dec 2007
Location: Busan, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Have you been in Korea for around 10 years??? |
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| KoreanAmbition wrote: |
Have you been in South Korea for near 10 years ????
What have kept you there?
Was the reason the same as when you went there? |
1. Eight years
2. A love of teaching; and a good church
3. Nay, I came for a year's vacation at first. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: Have you been in Korea for around 10 years??? |
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| KoreanAmbition wrote: |
| Have you been in South Korea for near 10 years ???? |
8 years. Is that close enough?
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| What have kept you there? |
Several reasons.
Number one:
I had trouble finding jobs in the United States.
I am what is known on this board as a "loser."
Number two:
I like kids, I'm a bachelor, and you know what that means in the United States.
Even with the Peter Jackson scare, sexual abuse hysteria here is nothing compared with what it is in the United States.
I was amazed the first time a met a parent and a child on the sidewalk and the parent ducked the child's head and said, "인사하지." In the United States, stranger equals danger.
Number three:
I've gotten involved in learning the language and learning the culture, and I'm hooked.
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| Was the reason the same as when you went there? |
Yes and no.
I came over here for reason number one, quickly acquired reasn number two, and eventually acquired reason number three. |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: Re: Have you been in Korea for around 10 years??? |
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| tomato wrote: |
| ...known on this board as a "loser." |
Surely you mean "looser"!  |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| faster wrote: |
| Are English your native languages? |
Same question  |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| skconqueror wrote: |
| faster wrote: |
| Are English your native languages? |
Same question |
Don't be embarrassed. Lots of people can't recognize jokes on the internet. |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| faster wrote: |
| skconqueror wrote: |
| faster wrote: |
| Are English your native languages? |
Same question |
Don't be embarrassed. Lots of people can't recognize jokes on the internet. |
Though, I am pretty good at recognizing stupidity, masked as humor  |
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Mi Yum mi
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
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1) I'll be here 10 years at the end of this summer.
2) Wife, kids(new), good job, easy money, great hours and great vacation.
3) Hell no. Came here for a year cause I was bored. Was having a good time so I stayed another year. This evil K-girl got her claws into me and kept me around for a while. Then she popped out twins. Guess I'm here til the little ones are old enough to go to high school. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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1. Over 11 years
2. Like it here. (Mostly)
3. They have changed, and will continue to do so. |
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