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Lost500
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 Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:17 am Post subject: Article about dislike of foreign teachers in Korea. |
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I could not see any thread about this elsewhere, rather concerning & I thought people should be aware. Feedback??
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=333
The actual article is on the right, 'Foreigners Fear........'
I cannot post direct link. |
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| I suspect that article was actually written in 2006 as a response to the English Spectrum controversy. |
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CentralCali
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:52 am Post subject: |
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Here is a direct link to the article. To do that, right click on the article, select Properties, and then copy and paste from Address (URL).
Konglishman: Perhaps these bits in the article was the give-away for your supspicion:
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| This contrasts deeply with the stated aim of the Roh administration to become the "hub" of North East Asia � a link between China and the Pacific Rim. |
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Konglishman
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:56 am Post subject: |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
Here is a direct link to the article. To do that, right click on the article, select Properties, and then copy and paste from Address (URL).
Konglishman: Perhaps this bit in the article was the give-away for your supspicion:
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| This contrasts deeply with the stated aim of the Roh administration to become the "hub" of North East Asia � a link between China and the Pacific Rim. |
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Yes, that and the reference to an English teacher website causing controversy due to a party. |
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plato's republic
Joined: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Ancient Greece
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:04 am Post subject: |
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Ah yes. The infamous Conor Purcell. Wasn't there a thread about him on these boards a couple years back or so? I suspect he's working for a red-top British tabloid by now...  |
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Flex Bulkchest
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Location: currently?...I don't know it's a room, with a computer....
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:54 am Post subject: |
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or you know....in jail in Thailand! His life took an interesting turn.
what a guy... |
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plato's republic
Joined: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Ancient Greece
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| How did he end up at the Bangkok Hilton? |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Flex Bulkchest wrote: |
or you know....in jail in Thailand! His life took an interesting turn.
what a guy... |
Wow, seriously? I actually emailed Conor before coming to Korea. His articles were salacious but way more interesting than anything else being written at the time. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Flex Bulkchest wrote: |
or you know....in jail in Thailand! His life took an interesting turn.
what a guy... |
Dressed in orange prison-issue shirt and shorts, barefoot and shackled in leg-irons, a furious Mr Purcell was led in to Pathumwan Municipal Court in Bangkok yesterday, protesting that he was being unlawfully held.
Visibly angry at his detention, Mr Purcell, 29, a former soldier, refused to stand when told and then yelled at the judge that he would not accept the court's right to try him. ''Nobody in this country has authority over me,'' he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-launches-tirade-in-thai-court-20100527-whrn.html |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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This article looks old. (S)Limelight closed about 3 years ago didn't it and then became the Hard Rock cafe which also closed didn't it? The guy who wrote it is Irish judging from his bio so not the Australian in trouble in Bangkok.
The writer's one of these guys who loves to have a go at drunks, whores, sleaze merchants, etc... while of course being someone of clean living, upright character who has never taken illegal substances, been drunk and offensive in public or tried to cop off with someone he shouldn't have done in a nght club.
Some of his writing isn't up top much either. 'Urine coloured jewellery'? You mean gold jewellery? 'Cartoonish waitresses?' |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Junior wrote: |
| Flex Bulkchest wrote: |
or you know....in jail in Thailand! His life took an interesting turn.
what a guy... |
Dressed in orange prison-issue shirt and shorts, barefoot and shackled in leg-irons, a furious Mr Purcell was led in to Pathumwan Municipal Court in Bangkok yesterday, protesting that he was being unlawfully held.
Visibly angry at his detention, Mr Purcell, 29, a former soldier, refused to stand when told and then yelled at the judge that he would not accept the court's right to try him. ''Nobody in this country has authority over me,'' he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-launches-tirade-in-thai-court-20100527-whrn.html |
Actually I just read Conor Purcell's blog. That's not him. That's some Aussie who has the same name. Conor is Irish and he's working for a paper in Saudi Arabia. |
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jdog2050
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| edwardcatflap wrote: |
This article looks old. (S)Limelight closed about 3 years ago didn't it and then became the Hard Rock cafe which also closed didn't it? The guy who wrote it is Irish judging from his bio so not the Australian in trouble in Bangkok.
The writer's one of these guys who loves to have a go at drunks, whores, sleaze merchants, etc... while of course being someone of clean living, upright character who has never taken illegal substances, been drunk and offensive in public or tried to cop off with someone he shouldn't have done in a nght club.
Some of his writing isn't up top much either. 'Urine coloured jewellery'? You mean gold jewellery? 'Cartoonish waitresses?' |
Eh; I think he was just getting some stories in while saving some money. It looks like he works for a real paper these days. I first contacted Connor because he'd done an interview with a red-light district prostitute and I was wondering how he'd done that. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:13 am Post subject: |
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| The guy who wrote the article went to university in Ireland and doesn't look anything like the Australian guy in Bangkok |
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jvalmer
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| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| Both guys seem like douchebags. |
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