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[Stan Rogers]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/08/117_72262.html

[balzor]

[ThingsComeAround]

As though the locals have any right to complain

When asked to goto staff dinners and drink with the chief/principal, is it now okay to tell him "No, I can't, I may end up drunk tomorrow morning"??

Ugh.

[Italy37612]

Yea, because Koreans never do that.

[Spike]

I don't buy the cough syrup/aspirin excuse (what right-minded person would). He probably was a little hungover, his own fault for not getting himself right before going on air. Maybe we found reading the news very mundane in the first place and figured drinking the night before wouldn't be an issue.

[Radius]

[Quack Addict]

The construction workers pound soju and take a 1 hour lunch snoozes across from my apartment. Where is the outrage?

[Hotwire]

At least 2 Korean teachers are drunk daily at my elementary school.

They both drive to and from work drunk and can barely stand without swaying by lunchtime.

Korea really needs to look to it's own in so many areas before it looks at others with a critical eye...

[Stan Rogers]

I knew a guy who got fired for being drunk on his first day of work at the hogwon. I can't say he was a co-worker because he never actually worked.

He arrived in the country drunk on a Friday. His roomate said he drank constantly till Monday morning. He showed up to work 3hrs late stinking of booze.

I was standing outside talking to a co-worker, and saw the new guy get out of a taxi. He staggered over to the front door of the hogwon. He fell flat on his face and passed out in front of the building with the owner standing right there.

Me and my co-worker nearly pissed ourselves laughing. Needless to say he got fired on the spot.

[conrad2]

The Koreans in the article need to be slapped- hard. "I felt ridiculed." Really? A drunk guy reading the news makes you feel ridiculed? "I was so disappointed." Well seeing as you are Korean and considering the role alcohol plays in Korean society, you must have felt constantly disappointed from the moment of your birth until the present time. This disappointment will continue unti the momentl you draw your last breath.

[CentralCali]

[Spike]

The thing is, if this guy was a regular attraction on the station, then he's completely open to ridicule. He messed up. Any of us could do the job he took for granted.

[engrishprease]

[jvalmer]

I've been drunk at school a few times, but only on those 'event' days when we teach no classes. First time I found it strange that they were pouring the booze with students walking around. Even the mothers were pouring drinks into our cups. Back home this would have made the 6 o'clock news in a negative way.

[Man on Street]

The problem is not that he was there drunk, but that he didn't use the opportunity to ad lib and make it funny. Like "Last night I was drunk. How many bottles can you drink?"

I tell you, conversation prompts like that fill seats in adult classes and I see no reason for that to work on the radio as well.