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[Globutron]

The OP didn't even CLAIM it to be Korean kids... let alone that it's a Korean thing.

[sulperman]

Probably 90% of my posts on daves are jumping on people for whining.... but I can totally relate to this. I sit by the door. The bastards in my small office sit on the other side, but I am right by the door. When they have a 10 minute conversation with somebody in the office from one foot behind me holding the door open the whole time my body may be freezing but my blood is boiling....

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[AsiaESLbound]

I noticed this too, but used to always closing the door behind everyone, and wonder why anyone including kids would let the freezing cold in when we are all cold and want to be warm. Things we refer to as being common courtesy in consideration of others aren't observed over here. Vastly different culture. Why move out the way and close the door so others can be comfortable? It's quicker and easier to just be first and not close the door without thinking about the small stuff like being considerate of others around you. Herd mentality leaves the door open to the cold windy barnyard.

[JeffersonDarcy2010]

[jrwhite82]

[Globutron]

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

I suppose ventilation is important-- nothing is worse than going from the fresh air outside onto a crowded bus where you're breathing other people's CO2... but then, buses don't seem to fit into that logic in Korea, even though it's a smaller, more crowded space than a classroom. I have to crack the window open sometimes, to avoid suffocating.

But then every day I get to school and the doors in the front and the back of the school have all been left wide open, effectively creating a wind tunnel on the first floor. I have no idea why they feel the need to do this when it's -6C out... especially since it isn't even a room where people are working-- all of the office doors are closed, so if it's ventilation, no one is benefitting from it. It's just this horrible cold space that I have to walk through in order to get to class.

[methdxman]

[methdxman]

[Globutron]

[loveless]

yea, it gets cold with the doors open but it really chills out with the windows open!

[oldfatfarang]

If you want to embarrass Koreans into closing doors, just ask them: "Were you born with a tail." That can be effective.

I sit next to 2 doors (one into a freezing corridor). There's a hellova draft and the K teachers/students kept leaving the fricking door open. I was literally sitting in a cold draft, wearing a ski coat, scarf and russian hat, and they still didn't get it - even when I kept getting up to close the dam door after they left it open.

Snap! I asked a teacher what the problem with shutting the door was, and everyone got embarrassed, and my co-teacher quickly explained that I was in a draft - so no more problems from him.

But the old adjoshi mafia still leaves the door open sometimes. Never mind, only 32 days till enternal sun and heat.

good luck.

[chellovek]

I managed to train the people in the office to shut the door, so it can be done. It took a few months of getting up and going to shut the door when somebody left it ajar, but now everyone shuts the door properly.