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[Real Reality]

73.4% of Koreans Feel 'Blue' at Workplaces
Korea Times (March 7, 2009)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/03/113_40862.html

Misery Runs High Among Koreans
By Seo Ji-eun, JoongAng Daily (June 24, 2008)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2891100

[Bibbitybop]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25lz7gchaw

[buymybook]

Da Ba Dee by SpongeBob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNUPnGkDPrg&feature=related

I was thinking about showing both versions to some of my students this coming week until another actress hung herself...
http://news.nate.com/view/20090307n06698?mid=e0100

"Blue (Da Ba De Da Ba Die)"

Yo listen up here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees
Is just blue like him inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him and hisself
And everybody around
Cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

I have a blue house with a blue window.
Blue is the colour of all that I wear.
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too.
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue.
Blue are the people here that walk around,
Blue like my corvette, it's standing outside.
Blue are the words I say and what I think.
Blue are the feelings that live inside me.

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

I have a blue house with a blue window.
Blue is the colour of all that I wear.
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too.
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue.
Blue are the people here that walk around,
Blue like my corvette, it's standing outside.
Blue are the words I say and what I think.
Blue are the feelings that live inside me.

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

Inside and outside blue his house
With the blue little window and a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him and hisself
And everybody around cause he aint got
Nobody to listen to

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

I'm blue (if I was green I would die)

[Sleepy in Seoul]

I feel red at my work... Oh, that's right; I SEE red.

[semi-fly]

Isn't it kind of expected though? How many people are actually happy with their jobs? If they polled posters on Dave's I'm sure it would show that over 50% feel that they are unmotivated, frustrated, peeved, etc. with their current position (and or their employer).

[Big Mac]

I think one of the reasons Koreans are unhappy with their work is because they spend too much useless time at work. They don't leave enough time to live their own lives.

If Koreans learned how to be efficient and get their work done in a more reasonable time period, they wouldn't have to spend all the useless hours at work that they claim to spend working.

That's why things like seat warming at public schools seem so ridiculous to us. We are used to getting our work done and getting out so we can play. Koreans are used to doing very little work over long time periods so they can appear to be working very hard.

[BS.Dos.]

Only 73%? I thought it would have been higher.

I got speaking to one of my CTs yesterday who told me that our school's teachers (17 in total) are deeply pissed-off at the moment. My HS is a (semi) private academic HS and the principal is relentless in her quest to raise both the standards and social standing of the school.

Her latest idea is to get the teachers to come into school on Sundays and leave on Saturdays at 1pm. That's right. She want's, nay, demands, that the teachers sleep at school for the entire week so that they can be on duty pretty much whenever she demands it. As you can imagine, and Korea being the 'cant say no' culture that it is, this latest idea went down like a fart in an elevator.

There's other shit going down atm as well and next week should prove to be interesting to say the least.

[VanIslander]

Love teaching

Feel sorry for anyone who doesn't: a sign they should be doing something else

[cdninkorea]

I'm with VanIslander: I may not enjoy every minute of work, but I do genuinely like my job.

That said, from what people (students) have told me about office culture in Korea, it sounds awful.

[ChinaBoy]