Korean Job Discussion Forums

[bogey666]

here are my nominations

1) first week one of the young female teachers in the teachers room had a big bag beneath her desk that was labeled.. "COOL HO"

I was laughing the entire day, every time I looked over.

2) one of my 3rd graders in HS, this would mean they're 20 yrs old today was wearing pinkish socks with teddy bears on them. (and displaying them proudly by having his feet plopped up on another chair with no shoes on)

for a patriarchial/traditional/male dominated society Korean boys (and youth culture) are some of the most effeminate creatures in certain ways I've ever seen.

3) we all know the girls constantly check themselves out in any mirror, even bringing one to class to make sure a hair isn't out of place, but today I caught a boy checking out his hair and "fixing it", using the bright/shiny side of a CD

4) accompanied my Kotex to one of her normal English classes (the classes given by Korean teachers) to "help out". These classes consist of memorizing really stupid situational conversation. (problem is situations are almost never precisely defined like in their books/scenarios)

today's memorization.(for some test supposedly) started like this:

I'm getting married to Candy.
Candy? Candy Brown?

that's when I stopped her and said... NOBODY has a first name that's Candy. Only strippers with stage names. Then I asked her if she knew what a stripper is.. when still joshing her about it later.. she said she knows.. but asked me how I knew.. I told her I'm a man of the world and know many things hahahahahaha

I probably should have allowed them to continue with Candy (they changed it to Sandy, per my suggestion) just so I could laugh my ass off for the rest of the day.

p.s. today was the first time I made a kid do pushups. Definitely deserved. Felt good too Some of the male teachers at our school get very creative with punishments. My fave is making them crawl around the halls completely squatted.

[DongtanTony]

No joke...and I'm talking like back in my elementary and middle school days...but I went to school with a Candy Brown...no joke.

The funniest thing I've ever seen...

Last year in Gumi, one of the Korean teachers at our hagwon was doing an anatomy lesson during one of the "parts of the body" units.

The back-story on her was that she had lived in London for some time...and back then still had a British boyfriend.

Well...during her anatomy lesson...and who knows why these specific parts of the female anatomy were being discussed to a group of 10 year olds in the first place....

But....no joke....I glance in her class from across the hall...big windows and all....and I see a pair of Lara Croft sized boobs drawn on her board with "t*tt*es" in big bold letters labeled next to them.

In my amazement...I peer in a little closer...next to the boobs was a nice round rump with a pucker drawn in the center...if anyone has ever read Vonnegut's,Breakfast of Champions, you see where I'm going with this.........oh yes, it was an a****le for sure.

I had to go get my girlfriend to join in the amusement...needless to say...after some explanation...and confusion because she genuinely thought that these were proper names for these parts of the human anatomy...the Korean teacher was incredibly embarrassed.

Kind of made me wonder...what the hell kind of English was her boyfriend teaching her anyways?

edit-----because the program will let me write boobs...but not their more popular name that begins with the letter "T"

[captain kirk]

This is just from yesterday.

Grade 4's. I give one student the nickname 'mouse face', joking around (he always looks like a mouse). Then ask the class, 'Who has a RAT face?'.
EVERY student, ALL the students, in swing arm unison point directly at ME.
Aw thanks guys.

[KYC]

why are all the kids calling Thomas "Tomahto" I don't find it funny....

[Gamecock]

Last year's fire drill...80 kids in stocking feet SPRINTING down the hall in as chaotic fashion as possible, with half of them sliding past the stairwell in their stocking feet and another half dozen or so falling down the stairs...resulting in one broken arm.

[bogey666]

[captain kirk]

This was pretty funny today.

Grade 6. There's a pretty girl who dresses herself up, and acts like, a doll all the time. Shiny Prince Valiant hairdoo, demure, far out to lunch in 'kewtie'. After class she gives me this great drawing she did, in pencil, of a 'cutie girl head', like a comic character. This boy suddenly crushes it, throws it on the floor, stamps on it. She thinks it's hilarious mostly, this destruction.

[Cerriowen]

I went to school with a girl named Candy Turner.

It's short for "Candice."

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Whistleblower]

The funniest thing that I experienced in my first hagwon was this:

I was teaching and finished explaining rules for a role play. A student mentioned "Teacher" and I said, "yeah" expecting a question and received a less than expected, "Puck you!" The student even put his middle finger up.

I was so surprised by this outburst from what was a very good student and requested that he leave the room. I decided to leave the classroom for a short while and ended up laughing by myself.

Ofcourse, the Korean management were a joke and saying that the kids were joking and betting who would actually say, "Puck you!" with a capital "P". They wouldn't blame the kids but the actual movies that they watch on TV.

[captain kirk]

Passed by a grade 6 homeroom and a couple of girls excitedly told me about how a student just puked. I said great, very exciting, everybody should puke! And looked in to see the homeroom teacher moping up the puddle of puke tryinig not to ralph himself. I asked around and this is apparently, puking in class, a fairly rare event. Lucky I passed by!

[MrMr]

The funniest thing I've "heard".

A couple of years ago, in my late fifties I was teaching a group of 10 year old girls. The text had a picture of a wedding party. I asked one little girl if she liked the wedding dress and she said that she did.
I told her that some day I might see her in her wedding dress.
She looked at me and said in a quite serious voice, " Teacher, I married, you dead". Man I cracked up..."out of the mouths of babes'

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Fishead soup]

A young attractive science teacher was wearing a t shirt that says'

Pick up girl. In big letters. She's ultra friendly and speaks English too.

[mehamrick]

My schools dietician wore a shirt the other day that said "pleasure orgy" on it.