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Kuros
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
| Where do you come from "Mr-Dokdo"? |
Hyphen-nation |
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seoulsucker
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Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:02 am Post subject: |
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I was at Hongdae station last night and noticed that they have covered up the "how" with a "what" sticker.  |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
| I was at Hongdae station last night and noticed that they have covered up the "how" with a "what" sticker. |
My gf saw that today too and took a picture. She'll send it to me tomorrow when she gets on the computer. |
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harlowethrombey
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Location: Seoul
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told my coworkers about it (they're korean) and they just shook their head and said 'oh, yes we've heard about that.'
In a related story, knew a guy who knew a guy who went to vegas and in one of the hotels they had a sign in Chinese but one of the kanji was upside down. This guy could read chinese so he told the management and they comped his room for the night. Again, that's what happens when you dont put in the bare minimum effort to doublecheck a sign in a different language. |
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jajdude
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| I think mistakes like this are so common in Korea and other countries because English is used as a decoration, even when it is used in advertising a business that sells English. I guess it just looks cute and doesn't have to make any sense. |
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LonelyAssasin
Joined: 07 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:19 am Post subject: Re: Shame on you, Wall Street English |
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On the way to work this morning on the subway (Line 1) I look up and see this ad for Wall Street English.
It's a mock picture of Koreans in a boardroom with this girl with stick pointing to a chart and saying to her boss who is sitting at a table:"How do you think about this project, Mr.Lee.", or something to this effect. The boss is sort of cowering because he's embarrassed he can't speak English, and says:" Umm, yes. Yes. Yes."
How do you think about....!!!
This is an English language school and they can't get their one sentence on an advertisement right.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting awefully tired of my native language being bastardized more often then not.
Shame on you, Wall Street English. |
be thankful koreans don't speak english flutently. If they did, where else can you get a job and get paid as much? |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:47 am Post subject: Re: Shame on you, Wall Street English |
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| LonelyAssasin wrote: |
| Jane wrote: |
On the way to work this morning on the subway (Line 1) I look up and see this ad for Wall Street English.
It's a mock picture of Koreans in a boardroom with this girl with stick pointing to a chart and saying to her boss who is sitting at a table:"How do you think about this project, Mr.Lee.", or something to this effect. The boss is sort of cowering because he's embarrassed he can't speak English, and says:" Umm, yes. Yes. Yes."
How do you think about....!!!
This is an English language school and they can't get their one sentence on an advertisement right.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting awefully tired of my native language being bastardized more often then not.
Shame on you, Wall Street English. |
be thankful koreans don't speak english flutently. If they did, where else can you get a job and get paid as much? |
Jobs in our home countries more often than not pay more than jobs in Korea. It's the preferential tax status (which is a government incentive policy, not a wage) puts it over the top in some cases. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:32 am Post subject: Re: Shame on you, Wall Street English |
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| LonelyAssasin wrote: |
| Jane wrote: |
On the way to work this morning on the subway (Line 1) I look up and see this ad for Wall Street English.
It's a mock picture of Koreans in a boardroom with this girl with stick pointing to a chart and saying to her boss who is sitting at a table:"How do you think about this project, Mr.Lee.", or something to this effect. The boss is sort of cowering because he's embarrassed he can't speak English, and says:" Umm, yes. Yes. Yes."
How do you think about....!!!
This is an English language school and they can't get their one sentence on an advertisement right.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting awefully tired of my native language being bastardized more often then not.
Shame on you, Wall Street English. |
be thankful koreans don't speak english flutently. If they did, where else can you get a job and get paid as much? |
If you can teach Koreans to speak flutently you should get a trombonus. |
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Otherside
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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Mithrades, I loved your blog post on this^^.
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Unfortunately for the ad, since she doesn't even know the correct usage of what and how it's possible she completely garbled her presentation and Mr. Jung (who actually speaks fluent English) is just flabbergasted that she would ask a question after babbling on incomprehensibly for the past ten minutes or so
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: Re: Shame on you, Wall Street English |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| LonelyAssasin wrote: |
| Jane wrote: |
On the way to work this morning on the subway (Line 1) I look up and see this ad for Wall Street English.
It's a mock picture of Koreans in a boardroom with this girl with stick pointing to a chart and saying to her boss who is sitting at a table:"How do you think about this project, Mr.Lee.", or something to this effect. The boss is sort of cowering because he's embarrassed he can't speak English, and says:" Umm, yes. Yes. Yes."
How do you think about....!!!
This is an English language school and they can't get their one sentence on an advertisement right.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting awefully tired of my native language being bastardized more often then not.
Shame on you, Wall Street English. |
be thankful koreans don't speak english flutently. If they did, where else can you get a job and get paid as much? |
Jobs in our home countries more often than not pay more than jobs in Korea. It's the preferential tax status (which is a government incentive policy, not a wage) puts it over the top in some cases. |
Free housing, lack of need for a car certainly save well over $1,500+ a month easily. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Shame on you, Wall Street English |
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| Ukon wrote: |
| Free housing, lack of need for a car certainly save well over $1,500+ a month easily. |
Housing is part of the pay, it's not free.
The lack of a need for a car has nothing to do with the wages, which was the only thing I was referring to. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| Otherside wrote: |
Mithrades, I loved your blog post on this^^.
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Unfortunately for the ad, since she doesn't even know the correct usage of what and how it's possible she completely garbled her presentation and Mr. Jung (who actually speaks fluent English) is just flabbergasted that she would ask a question after babbling on incomprehensibly for the past ten minutes or so
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오땡큐~
Finally got the new picture. Here's what it looks like:
http://mithridates.blogspot.com/2009/03/mr-jung-hower-what-do-you-think-about.html |
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CA-NA-DA-ABC
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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| what a joke. |
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