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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
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 Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: Korean physical ed |
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This is not mean to be a Korea bash
But in the PE classes I've seen they seem to mainly just run around chanting things....
I'd like to see more competative sports and games and more effort going into them...
Even when they play soccer or something there seems little in the way of real effort or competition (no doubt due to cultural infulences of confucianism / don't show off, don't embarrass or show up someone else..)
They barely seem to break a sweat, they are just trotting behind the pe teacher, who blows a whistle and then they chant something...
Man we used to bust our arses off in pe class....
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poeticjustice
Joined: 28 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Koreans don't break a sweat because they don't sweat, period.
I played soccer with my co-workers on a hot afternoon towards the beginning of July. After twenty minutes or so, I was completely drenched in sweat and I'm in good shape. It was just so incredibly humid.
Everyone else was so amazed by it. I was the only person sweating! Or at least, the only person sweating that much.
Maybe this is unrelated but it explains why they don't "break a sweat." |
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steveinincheon
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: in The Shadows of Gyeyangsan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Ummm,
I hike a lot and come summer I see many Koreans drenched in sweat out on the hiking trails. |
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Pwillig
Joined: 26 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| steveinincheon wrote: |
Ummm,
I hike a lot and come summer I see many Koreans drenched in sweat out on the hiking trails. |
Yea, the PE teacher's seat is next to mine. Whenever he comes in he's drenched and smelling like old garlic.
Edit: I don't smell much better after working out or running either. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| steveinincheon wrote: |
Ummm,
I hike a lot and come summer I see many Koreans drenched in sweat out on the hiking trails. |
We ARE TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL PE CLASSES - NOT HIKING
Lord, oh lord oh lord........ |
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ekul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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This thread is retarded, I see plenty of competitive sports going on at school. In fact at sports day it's kinda crazy how competitive the kids get. Each lunch time there is a huge game of football. Right now I can see prolly 100 kids doing a mix of football, badminton and jump rope. I see one class after their PE session and they are all sweating buckets and moaning at me to turn on the AC.
PE at my school was rubbish, playing rounders, doing cross country and once in a blue moon attempting to play rugby. Yay. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| ekul wrote: |
This thread is retarded, I see plenty of competitive sports going on at school. In fact at sports day it's kinda crazy how competitive the kids get. Each lunch time there is a huge game of football. Right now I can see prolly 100 kids doing a mix of football, badminton and jump rope. I see one class after their PE session and they are all sweating buckets and moaning at me to turn on the AC.
PE at my school was rubbish, playing rounders, doing cross country and once in a blue moon attempting to play rugby. Yay. |
Well becaue I make an observation about what I'm seeing outside my classroom window all day means I have mental retardation?
Classic Dave's reasoning. Love it. |
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ytuque
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| ekul wrote: |
This thread is retarded, I see plenty of competitive sports going on at school. In fact at sports day it's kinda crazy how competitive the kids get. Each lunch time there is a huge game of football. Right now I can see prolly 100 kids doing a mix of football, badminton and jump rope. I see one class after their PE session and they are all sweating buckets and moaning at me to turn on the AC.
PE at my school was rubbish, playing rounders, doing cross country and once in a blue moon attempting to play rugby. Yay. |
Young Koreans are so physically unfit that it makes me sad to watch the kids who live in my apartment complex playing. |
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ekul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote: |
| ekul wrote: |
This thread is retarded, I see plenty of competitive sports going on at school. In fact at sports day it's kinda crazy how competitive the kids get. Each lunch time there is a huge game of football. Right now I can see prolly 100 kids doing a mix of football, badminton and jump rope. I see one class after their PE session and they are all sweating buckets and moaning at me to turn on the AC.
PE at my school was rubbish, playing rounders, doing cross country and once in a blue moon attempting to play rugby. Yay. |
Well becaue I make an observation about what I'm seeing outside my classroom window all day means I have mental retardation?
Classic Dave's reasoning. Love it. |
First you introduce your post with the old "I don't mean to offend you but xxx" that's a real classic there. Then obviously you're going to bash Korea, based on looking out your window.
Then some other genius comes and says Koreans don't sweat?! Then someone says they do and get's bashed for it because it wasn't when they were doing PE?
Yup this thread does have mental retardation. Anyway I said the thread was retarded not you. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| ytuque wrote: |
| ekul wrote: |
This thread is retarded, I see plenty of competitive sports going on at school. In fact at sports day it's kinda crazy how competitive the kids get. Each lunch time there is a huge game of football. Right now I can see prolly 100 kids doing a mix of football, badminton and jump rope. I see one class after their PE session and they are all sweating buckets and moaning at me to turn on the AC.
PE at my school was rubbish, playing rounders, doing cross country and once in a blue moon attempting to play rugby. Yay. |
Young Koreans are so physically unfit that it makes me sad to watch the kids who live in my apartment complex playing. |
Why do you hate Korea! (wait for it...)
I know, that's my experience too....
Ekul - cross country is excellent. hmmm... going for a 5km run (we used to do this age 11 and onwards, (I'm 33 now) or trotting in the playground chanting....
Rugby, a very challenging sport or a half hearted 5-a side on a pitch about 10 sqr metres....
We also used to play FULL PITCH foottie, shinty, field hockey, full court sized basketball, cricket....
It was much better than what I see at the publlic schoools I've worked at here. Don't know what the quality of pe is like in UK now though and I'd criticise it equally if it were shiite...
come on pal, wise up will you....? |
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ekul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I did the cross country runs, can't say I loved them but I know they're good for you. I've played Rugby since I was 8 which is why I resented being forced to play it with a bunch of no-hopers at school. However just because I took part in PE doesn't mean everyone did. I'm not as old as you but even 15 years ago there were always the lazy kids who would walk the course or sit down and make daisy chains instead of running down the wing.
At my school the PE teachers are bastards, they're funny, but cross them and they will thump you. They're not just PE teachers here but disciplinarians. PE could be better in most schools I think, the focus just isn't on it any more in most parts of the world. Yet to say all these Korean kids are unfit is a total misnomer, some are very energetic and have good stamina, you notice this during the sports days. Korean kids play outside and are more active than kids in the UK based on how many you see out and about playing. Considering Korea has an severe ageing population you'd never know it if you just looked at the amount of kids running around. |
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Rusty Shackleford
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| The students at my school just seem to play soccer all day for PE. The main PE teacher last year had them pretty well organised. Defenders defending. Midfielders passing. etc I used to enjoy watching them. They seem to be just bees buzzing around the hive these days. |
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greasypeanut
Joined: 28 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| ytuque wrote: |
| ekul wrote: |
This thread is retarded, I see plenty of competitive sports going on at school. In fact at sports day it's kinda crazy how competitive the kids get. Each lunch time there is a huge game of football. Right now I can see prolly 100 kids doing a mix of football, badminton and jump rope. I see one class after their PE session and they are all sweating buckets and moaning at me to turn on the AC.
PE at my school was rubbish, playing rounders, doing cross country and once in a blue moon attempting to play rugby. Yay. |
Young Koreans are so physically unfit that it makes me sad to watch the kids who live in my apartment complex playing. |
ahh so its just the young ones? thats not so bad. in america, EVERYONE, young or old is unfit. and if u decide to say that the korean adults are unfit also, at least they arent 20-40 pounds overweight at the same time. my pe classes consisted of the same things the op said of his schools pe classes. |
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eIn07912
Joined: 06 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Koreans don't break a sweat because they don't sweat, period. |
That's stupid. Of course they sweat. I teach 4th graders and they come in soaking wet from playing outside at break time, stink like hell too. I always make them go wash their faces. I see adults sweat at my gym and when climbing or hiking.
I would like to see more PE classes though. Perhaps more for the education that comes with it, rather than exercise. Learning to be apart of a team, working together to accomplish a goal is something I don't think they get here. That's probably one reason why we see their legislator having knock down drag out fights over passing bills and such. Plus, kids have to learn that in life, you're going to lose every now and then. You can't always be a winner. You will fail tests, you will lose games, you will not always perform your best ability. It's not the end of the world, it's just part of life.
Kids simply don't learn how to lose and learn from it, that's why when they fail at a test or a job they're so eager to throw themselves off the first bridge or building they see. |
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andrewchon
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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