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Is there a place in Korea that ISNT Beautiful?
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GoldMember



Joined: 24 Oct 2006

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:52 pm    Post subject: Is there a place in Korea that ISNT Beautiful? Reply with quote

Typical Job Ad.
Teach in Beautiful (insert name of place).
So far I've seen ads for Beautiful!, Ulsan (if you can see it through the smog), Yeonsu, Incheon (Beautiful factories), Busan (whats town planning?), Seoul, Daegu, even Pohang, and the list just goes on and on.

If any recruiter is reading this. Stop using the word beautiful to describe places that are dumps. We are not as stupid as you think we are. We do know these places are not beautiful and are in fact dumps.

Definition of beautiful: This job sucks and has no good features so we have to lie about what a wonderful cultural experience you'll have and what a 'beautiful' place you'll have the honor of living in.
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Jack Meiov



Joined: 13 May 2008

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

funny.
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drunkenfud



Joined: 08 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And is there a food in Korea that ISN'T "healthy"?
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Straphanger



Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

drunkenfud wrote:
And is there a food in Korea that ISN'T "healthy"?

Y'all gotta get out of the city once in a while... I had a PharmD (old school Korean yak-sa) tell me "No umm... it is the... sul... umm.. Do not eat with a spoon here. You eat with chopsticks. Kimchi is ok - but just a little bit. Too much salt. Kimchi Chiggae... is.." and he did the X thing with his arms.
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about "experience the real China" or wherever? You mean live in a hicktown and come to hate going out in public dealing with people who think you are from Mars? It's kind of like selling crap and calling it roses.
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losing_touch



Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Location: Ulsan - I think!

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Is there a place in Korea that ISNT Beautiful? Reply with quote

GoldMember wrote:
Typical Job Ad.
Teach in Beautiful (insert name of place).
So far I've seen ads for Beautiful!, Ulsan (if you can see it through the smog), Yeonsu, Incheon (Beautiful factories), Busan (whats town planning?), Seoul, Daegu, even Pohang, and the list just goes on and on.

If any recruiter is reading this. Stop using the word beautiful to describe places that are dumps. We are not as stupid as you think we are. We do know these places are not beautiful and are in fact dumps.

Definition of beautiful: This job sucks and has no good features so we have to lie about what a wonderful cultural experience you'll have and what a 'beautiful' place you'll have the honor of living in.


Actually, my area of Ulsan is quite charming. There is no smog. It is vibrant. I wouldn't call it beautiful, but it does have an appeal to it.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a job ad for Linfen, China which boasts of flowers and it being a "scenic" place.

No mention that Linfen was deemed the most polluted city in the world in 2006 and that its air is black with coal.
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Kimchi Cha Cha



Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: was Suncheon, now Brisbane

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is there a place in Korea that ISNT Beautiful?

Dave's ESL Korean forum - and I'm sure most patriotic Koreans would agree. Wink
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Crockpot2001



Joined: 01 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Straphanger wrote:
drunkenfud wrote:
And is there a food in Korea that ISN'T "healthy"?

Y'all gotta get out of the city once in a while... I had a PharmD (old school Korean yak-sa) tell me "No umm... it is the... sul... umm.. Do not eat with a spoon here. You eat with chopsticks. Kimchi is ok - but just a little bit. Too much salt. Kimchi Chiggae... is.." and he did the X thing with his arms.


In the good Count's voice: ONE! count them, ONE! good doctor in Korea, Ah-ah-aaaaaah!

That story brings a tear to my eye.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I find a lot of beauty in Korea, but most of it is unintended and hidden from plain view.
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kunsan. Ugliest city in the country. Me and an ex-girlfriend went on a roadtrip there thinking "coastal city, ocean, beaches" and instead got "dilapidated cinder block nightmare". We didn't even get to the coast before we got out of that hell hole. We shouldn't have even left the piss-covered floor, cement closet they call a bus terminal.
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Mr-Dokdo



Joined: 16 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why should they stop? It seems to work.
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ChinaBoy



Joined: 17 Feb 2007

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any school that advertises the city more than the school is no place you want to work.
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ryoga013



Joined: 23 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Crockpot2001 wrote:
Straphanger wrote:
drunkenfud wrote:
And is there a food in Korea that ISN'T "healthy"?

Y'all gotta get out of the city once in a while... I had a PharmD (old school Korean yak-sa) tell me "No umm... it is the... sul... umm.. Do not eat with a spoon here. You eat with chopsticks. Kimchi is ok - but just a little bit. Too much salt. Kimchi Chiggae... is.." and he did the X thing with his arms.


In the good Count's voice: ONE! count them, ONE! good doctor in Korea, Ah-ah-aaaaaah!

That story brings a tear to my eye.

TWO! Blah-ah-ah

My doctor told me what I already knew, Koreans eat way too much salt. A thing of ramen is about 97% of your sodium. That's one meal down...
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sojourner1



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug

PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A buddhist temple high up in the mountains is beautiful, but modern development in the valleys is uglyer than how ass smells. What are they going to do in 20 years when this cheap quality modern development begins to crumble and they have a big flagulating turd on their hands? Oh boy....
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