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bundangbabo
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 Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject: Last day at school! |
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Nice morning this morning and I thought this was going to be a pleasant day... everything was going rosy until I heard my co-teacher referring to me as 'Hughzee' (which means arsewipe in Korean - this is how these wonderful, mature people - teachers no less - behave) on the phone to admin. I was sat right next to her - Koreans of this ilk think we foreigners are really so stupid as that we have no idea what they are saying in front of us.
I told her as calmly as possible that my name is Hughes - I asked her to repeat my surname - which she pronounced perfectly - I gave her a round of applause also - I told her I would rather be preferred to be labelled as 'waygookin' than 'hughzee' she apologized. I just shook my head and went back to listening to 80s hits on youtube.
It has put things in perspective about working with these complete and utter wankers - I never will look in the mirror again and think 'could I have done more - what did I do wrong?' It is they who have the attitude problem and not I. How patient have I been in not smacking anyone in the mouth for the past 12 months! I know not every Korean school is like this so I am 0-2 down in regards where I have been working - third time lucky maybe?
Anyway - the school will be named and shamed next week folks - stay tuned because if you are coming here to work - you'll want to know what their crappy attitudes to the NET is. |
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fromtheuk
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| How patient have I been in not smacking anyone in the mouth for the past 12 months! I know not every Korean school is like this so I am 0-2 down in regards where I have been working - third time lucky maybe? |
You have summed up how I felt at my last school. Most of the teachers were awful right until the end. I still said farewell to the P and VP, to be diplomatic they were impressed with that, my last co-teacher who was okay was shocked.  |
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Otherside
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hughzee really means asswipe? Your name is Hughes?
Eish, tough break 
Anyways man, better luck for round 3, hope it's an improvement on the previous 2.
You off to China now right? Or you gonna go home for a bit? |
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bundangbabo
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hughzee really means asswipe? Your name is Hughes?
Eish, tough break
Anyways man, better luck for round 3, hope it's an improvement on the previous 2.
You off to China now right? Or you gonna go home for a bit? |
Cheers mate! Much appreciated!
I have followed every rule as regards trying to intergrate and got nowhere - Must admit though it seems to be this school that are playing up rather than the general rule - my mates are happy enough in their public school.
Flying back to England and then off to China in September and then comeback here because I like living here and I like to teach - maybe round 3 here will be a better experience than the last two crapholes I have worked in - all the best! |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I really need to learn some Korean swear words or slang. |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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She probably said Hugh 'Shi' instead of Hugh 'SonSaingNim'.
Both are honorific and not even BanMal.
 Too obvious, mmm? |
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xCustomx
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:36 am Post subject: |
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She probably said Hugh 'Shi' instead of Hugh 'SonSaingNim'.
Both are honorific and not even BanMal.
Too obvious, mmm? |
I have NEVER heard a Korean teacher refer to another teacher as Name+씨. Only the lowly secretary (i say lowly because she pretty much just sits on her ass all day looking at cyworld) is referred to as 씨.
I think the OP is overreacting though. My name is pronunced wrong all the time, but I don't care. And instead of complaining about this on Daves, why don't you tell them in KOREAN that you understand what they're saying and don't appreciate it. |
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Ruraljuror
Joined: 08 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| I have NEVER heard a Korean teacher refer to another teacher as Name+씨. Only the lowly secretary (i say lowly because she pretty much just sits on her ass all day looking at cyworld) is referred to as 씨. |
I can second this. Good luck in China OP...your school sucked. The fact that you lasted 12 months proves you are some of saint.
BTW, how did you happen to learn this Korean slang? I thought I was pretty well versed in it, but I've never heard it before. |
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xCustomx
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| BTW, how did you happen to learn this Korean slang? I thought I was pretty well versed in it, but I've never heard it before. |
I'm gonna guess he's referring to Huggies, as in the baby diaper |
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NightSky
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:28 am Post subject: |
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no.
hyuji, 휴지, means toilet paper or tissue.
Hughes is a hard name for a Korean to pronounce properly. they would naturally koreanize it into "hyu-jeh" or "hyu-ji', or, less likely, to say "hyu-suh" although that is closer to the proper pronunciation (hyooz).
you don't know this yet? ask them to read "zoo" without modelling it first, they will say "jew", but if you say it properly then they can usually manage to say it properly too.
this is about as rational as if you told your Western boss something about the Korean guy in your office, Mr. Park, and he then got all upset because you didn't say "Bak" properly and thought you were calling him a garage, and went off on you saying "Bak, Bak, my name is Bak not Park." |
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Ruraljuror
Joined: 08 Dec 2007
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no.
hyuji, 휴지, means toilet paper or tissue.
Hughes is a hard name for a Korean to pronounce properly. they would naturally koreanize it into "hyu-jeh" or "hyu-ji', or, less likely, to say "hyu-suh" although that is closer to the proper pronunciation (hyooz).
you don't know this yet? ask them to read "zoo" without modelling it first, they will say "jew", but if you say it properly then they can usually manage to say it properly too.
this is about as rational as if you told your Western boss something about the Korean guy in your office, Mr. Park, and he then got all upset because you didn't say "Bak" properly and thought you were calling him a garage, and went off on you saying "Bak, Bak, my name is Bak not Park." |
Haha...he's definitely right here. I never made the connection between "Hughes" and "Hyuji", but I'm fairly certain that they probably didn't mean any disrespect whatsoever. They were probably saying "Hyu Shi", like how they pronounce "Bush" as "Buh Shi". It's terriblly unfortunate this happenened to you...kind of like how a Korean named "Suk-Mi" travelling to a Western country is going to be in for a rough time, but I don't think they meant any disrespect.
If you come back to Korea, you will be dealing with this issue again. And you might even have to deal with it in China, as many Korean words are Chinese in origin. |
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bundangbabo
Joined: 01 Jun 2008
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