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garykasparov
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:05 am Post subject: GEPIK teachers act poorly |
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Evidently a bunch of male teachers got very drunk during orientation and spilled beer and whiskey all over their room and someone barfed all over their room- especially on the curtains. Dain Bae made a big deal about keeping it quiet and helped them clean their rooms and do the laundry. She kept telling them "I'll lose my job if anyone finds out teachers were drunk."
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| Korean teachers get drunk at work quite often. The fridges are stocked with libations. Keep in mind, this is while they are working. Free time is free time. |
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ryouga013
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| Korean teachers get drunk at work quite often. The fridges are stocked with libations. Keep in mind, this is while they are working. Free time is free time. |
Nah, it's one of the many glorious double standards in Korea
My Boss: You can't keep alcohol in the teacher's room. You have to keep it in my office or the refrigerator. If someone sees it they will think you're an alcoholic. But, if it's a Korean teacher they see, even if they are in the middle of drinking it, they'll think, well, maybe he's just having bad day.
Western person: alcoholic for preparing for after-work festivities
Korean: bad day and simply needs to start the after work festivities early to "make it through the day" |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Yes, there's a double standard--all over the world.
At my duty station in Spain, oh... 20-odd years ago, the Spanish civilian employees would carry a liter of beer to work with them in their lunches. And they were driving the trucks that fuel aircraft.
One of the American military guys used to take the LUBE TRUCK (govt issue) to the club for a liquid lunch. If he wasn't back in... say an hour or two, we'd have to go looking to peel him off the sidewalk. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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Imagine that... a bunch of GEPIKers getting drunk!  |
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Cornfed
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Getting drunk together is an important part of social bonding, both in the West and in Korea. The idea that this is some kind of mystically awful crime is very silly. So it is possible to get a bit too much of a good thing on occasions. So what? These things happen. |
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RJjr
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Cornfed wrote: |
| Getting drunk together is an important part of social bonding, both in the West and in Korea. The idea that this is some kind of mystically awful crime is very silly. So it is possible to get a bit too much of a good thing on occasions. So what? These things happen. |
Maybe we take drinking and education overboard in the West. The OPs post reminds me of when the agriculture students of my high school went to a soil judging contest in another town. Everybody got drunk. One dude was plowing his girlfriend right there on the balcony. Others threw their furniture into the river below. One room of students took apart their beds and reassembled them and the rest of their hotel room to scale in the hotel's parking lot! Beer, whiskey, piss, and vomit everywhere. Where was the teacher/chaperone in all of this, you might ask... A couple of the farmboys/football players used their dresser as a medieval battering ram and knocked a hole in their wall, entered the adjacent room through the hole they created, and caught the teacher naked in bed with a prostitute.
Yes, my high school got permanently banned from that hotel and had to pay a bill of thousands of dollars for damages. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: GEPIK teachers act poorly |
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| garykasparov wrote: |
| Evidently a bunch of male teachers got very drunk during orientation and spilled beer and whiskey all over their room and someone barfed all over their room- especially on the curtains. Dain Bae made a big deal about keeping it quiet and helped them clean their rooms and do the laundry. She kept telling them "I'll lose my job if anyone finds out teachers were drunk." |
Happens every single time. At least it stayed in the rooms this time. During my GEPIK orientation, people passed out on the grass by the main entrance, and someone sprayed a fire extinguisher in the hallways. I'm pretty sure bunch of furniture was broken too. |
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Radhagrrl
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| This is why I refused to stay at the hotel during orientation. I don't need this nonsense at a professional event. |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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She must think esl teachers are a bunch of bulimic boys--can't hold their liquor.
And this would be their first encounter with an ajumma? |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Radhagrrl wrote: |
| I don't need this nonsense at a professional event. |
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Cornfed
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Kikomom wrote: |
She must think esl teachers are a bunch of bulimic boys--can't hold their liquor.
And this would be their first encounter with an ajumma? |
If you mean Dain Bae then given that she lived in NZ for several years this probably seems like par for the course or getting off lightly to her. Also, she's a bit younger and prettier than someone you'd describe as an ajumma. |
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marlow
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| And Gyeonggi wants non-grads to work in their schools? |
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brento1138
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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LOL... trust me... drinking TONS is NOT a problem during work orientations in Korean culture. I just went on a school trip with my elementary co-workers. The men drank Jack Daniels for breakfast.
Throw up was all over the place... |
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wanamin
Joined: 14 Apr 2008
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The OP forgot to mention, that at the same location, at the same time, there was a group of Korean execs from Citibank.
They got themselves sh*t faced, found this GEPIK girl who had never been outside her home country, got her drunk, and then one of them proceeded to have his way with her on the couch in the lobby.
(don't get me wrong, it was 100% consensual).
In the morning, the girl was yelled at by the GEPIK staff, as they considered it to be her fault.
I could only imagine what would have happened if a male Gepik teacher was caught with one of the Korean females attending another training session. It would have been a much bigger deal, I'm sure.
Everyone, Korean or not, gets sh*t faced at these 'training' sessions at the Hyundai training center.
The scandal is that people only make a big deal about it when its foreigners getting drunk.
ALSO:
At the convenience store in the hotel, the staff was instructed NOT to sell alcohol to GEPIK members. But all the other (Korean) groups had no such restrictions placed on them. |
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