Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Medic]

I have seen university year books, and noticed how toouched up they were. The students look a lot different from when i have seen them on the street. Have gotten to know some of them , so I was able to put a face to a picture i had seen

[Mr. Pink]

I got 4 yearbooks from the highschool I work at. It is always amazing how many faces change.

[just because]

I saw my girlfriends graduating year book.
I couldn't believe how big it was. There were so many photos and it was amazing how many people I knew just around town by looking at that yearbook.

[Real Reality]

How many foreign professors have their pictures placed in the yearbooks on the official pages with the department (or with the Korean professors)? How many foreign professors are welcome to stay four years at one university?

Ah memories.
Remember this wonderful article excerpt.

Permanent foreign professors number only a handful compared to the legions of Korean professors at foreign universities, but they do most of the heavy lifting in terms of course loads, devoting themselves almost exclusively to teaching. Nevertheless, foreign professors tend to be treated as hired hands, without academic standing, and lacking the possibility of career advancement or tenure. They must submit to yearly contracts (compensated at a rate only 60 percent of their Korean peers) while walled off from the permanent Korean faculty who benefit from travel, research funding, sabbaticals, etc. Moreover, when hundreds of Korean scholars enjoy such perks at American and other foreign universities, something is obviously amiss.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200206/14/200206142349223599900090109011.html

[ajstew]

I was very surprised when I saw the graduating yearbook from the university where I teach. I was impressed at it's quality and size and the fact the students have 2 pictures of themselves and often a number of others that had been taken from events.

At the same time, I couldn't help but think.... "So this is what the students were thinking about and working on all year... when their heads certainly weren't focused on learning English."

[Real Reality]

ajstew,

Worth repeating:
"So this is what the students were thinking about and working on all year... when their heads certainly weren't focused on learning English."

Medic can you answer:
How many foreign professors have their pictures placed in the yearbooks on the official pages with the department (or with the Korean professors)? How many foreign professors are welcome to stay four years at one university?

[Medic]

I have seen my friends who were teachers at universities get their photos in the yearbooks. If students they knew as freshmen were graduating then they got their mug shots in the year book