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[bundangbabo]

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.

[fromtheuk]

[Otherside]

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?

[bundangbabo]

[PatrickBateman]

I really need to learn some Korean swear words or slang.

[nobbyken]

She probably said Hugh 'Shi' instead of Hugh 'SonSaingNim'.
Both are honorific and not even BanMal.


Too obvious, mmm?

[xCustomx]

[Ruraljuror]

[xCustomx]

[NightSky]

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."

[Ruraljuror]

[bundangbabo]

To cut a long story short - the previous co-teacher told me what and how I was being to referred to and spelt out what the name meant - she said it was some of the students who were calling me this but then I cottoned on to hearing the staff call me or refer to me as 'hughzee' now they all know my christian name and politely asked them to call me Carlos (my first name - because I am going public - I don't give a shit!) which of course wasn't going to happen.

The more Korean I knew - the more I knew I was being disrespected - every other teacher would be referred to as 'saengsenim Kim' or whatever - I would be referred to as 'Hughzee' even though I asked them to call me by my first name.

One day during the winter break - the VP came up to me around lunchtime and shrilled 'Hughzeeeeee Bibimbap?" as if I was an effing retard and the shit my friends hit the fan. You can search through my posting history for the story.

[bundangbabo]

[tenchu77491]

I have always been called by my first name. I have never been called by my family name. I didn't even tell them what to call me... I just figured it's because my family name is like impossible for them to say.. therefore they just went with my first name since it's easier.

[bundangbabo]