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rt · Joined: 27 May 2009

Many of us have had gyopo friends/colleagues. But recently I had one in a graduate level university class. She exhibited both superiority and inferiority complexes, at the same time (understandable, but problematic). Anyone else experience this before?

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

No complexes but plenty of kyopos.

Joe666 · Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Location: Jesus it's hot down here!

teacha · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: South Korea

I had a gypo in one of my middle school classes who was born and raised in the US and couldn't speak ANY Korean!

Xuanzang · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang

I have a boy in my 5th grade class who was sent back to learn more Korean. I think he's just gotten an extended vacation by being here.

andrewchon · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:28 pm Post subject:

I have several gyopo students.
One boy I didn't know him in Oz but he lived in a place I went often. Then again, why would I, in Oz, pay attention to a ten year old kid that I don't know?
He knows that he speaks English very well. His friends have have managed to 'shame' him into thinking his shortage of Korean makes him their 'English' slave. He translates every thing I say for other students during the lesson. So, I don't have an annoying, meddling co-t, but an annoying meddling student.
He is afraid to speak English, because he thinks he's 'showing off'.

They've done the same to couple of students with Japanese-mothers, as well.
These two don't speak or read Japanese with me. They're ashamed because they are half-Japanese. Other students speak their 'rubbish Japanese' all the time. They don't speak a peep.
Have they been 'bullied' and are denying themselves their advantage in the wider world? I'd say so.

youtuber · Joined: 13 Sep 2009

I had some American kids mixed in with a bunch of Korean kids at an English camp.

And man were they annoying. They wanted to totally dominate every class.

Goku · Joined: 10 Dec 2008

Those kids get ragged on hardcore.

DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP · Joined: 28 May 2009 Location: Electron cloud

I had an adorable girl around 13 0r 14 in one of my hakwan adult classes 3 years back.

She was born here and her Mum is a famous Korean singer (older generation.) They moved to the US when she was about 6 and she went through schooling there.

When she came back she had a lot of probs.

1. As she didn't have or the Min of Ed couldn't find / had lost (more likely) her proffs / certs of previous Korean school attendance she had to re-start a few grades back (even though she was fluent in both Korean and English.)

2. Some kids at the Korean school treated her as an outsider and seemd both jealous of her and acted superior at the same time.

3. She hagted the way korean teachers treat the studetns.

Luckilly she was a really cool girl and made a lot of friends from various places in Korea anyway and I'm sure due to her personality and her Mum's status, she'll do fine in life.

linky123 · Joined: 12 Feb 2009

I had a middle school student who lived in the states since she was 6 years old. Her English was superb. I had to give her 'special' assignments and homework. I had her read 'To Kill the Mocking Bird', later, she was reading Hardy and Kafka. She wrote essay that put some teachers to shame. I had to teach her as if she was a regular 9th grader in the states.