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sing81
Joined: 09 Apr 2011
Location: USA
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 Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:40 pm Post subject: Does a mood disorder make you unfit to teach in Korea? |
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| Does a mood disorder make you unfit to teach in Korea? |
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shostahoosier
Joined: 14 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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no - in Korea it makes you a typical ESL teacher.  |
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sing81
Joined: 09 Apr 2011
Location: USA
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| What if you have a penchant for gambling and a slight case of gout in your right knee? Will that make you unfit to teach? |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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If you have a speach impediment, can you teach English in Korea?
Many questions arise...
How about if you have Tourette Syndrome. Or a penchant for garlic sandwiches? |
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Greenman
Joined: 08 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Sing mate, you sound amazing! 
STD's, depression, gout, mood disorders and a penchant for gambling?!
You'll fit right in! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:39 pm Post subject: Re: Does a mood disorder make you unfit to teach in Korea? |
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| sing81 wrote: |
| Does a mood disorder make you unfit to teach in Korea? |
If you admit to having it, yes.
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| Greenman wrote: |
Sing mate, you sound amazing!
STD's, depression, gout, mood disorders and a penchant for gambling?!
You'll fit right in! |
Agreed.
Seriously Sing81, If your physical and mental health is really in this kind of condition (mood disorders, anti-depressants, gambling addiction, gout, STDs...) you really should think twice (maybe 3 or 4 times) about coming here. You are leaving behind all your family and friends. Coming here by yourself. Then the way medicine is practiced here is much different than back home. Not to mention the language.
Good luck and get well soon. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Think of the health self-assessment form from Immigration as a sort of IQ test. If you are dumb enough to check "yes" in any of the boxes, you are too dumb to teach EFL in Korea. |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:48 am Post subject: |
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Mood Disorders
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Anti-Depressants
Depression
These are pretty heavy posts. Anyways, life abroad - especially Korea - can be pretty unforgiving if you have depression issues. Combine that with alcohol and it's a recipe for a tragedy. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| Only if you let everybody know about it. |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Think of the health self-assessment form from Immigration as a sort of IQ test. If you are dumb enough to check "yes" in any of the boxes, you are too dumb to teach EFL in Korea. |
This is literally the best possible explanation to any question that varies of "If I have X disease/disorder, can I teach in Korea?", seriously. It cannot be summed up more perfectly than this. |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| Gorf wrote: |
| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Think of the health self-assessment form from Immigration as a sort of IQ test. If you are dumb enough to check "yes" in any of the boxes, you are too dumb to teach EFL in Korea. |
This is literally the best possible explanation to any question that varies of "If I have X disease/disorder, can I teach in Korea?", seriously. It cannot be summed up more perfectly than this. |
i actually laughed out loud after reading Son Deureo's post.
I'm curios what people feel they have to gain by telling Immigration they have mental health issues? |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| Karma maybe, or something else that doesn't exist. People need to realize that this society is about saving face, your own most of all. Admitting faults is career suicide. |
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marsavalanche
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
Location: where pretty lies perish
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Think of the health self-assessment form from Immigration as a sort of IQ test. If you are dumb enough to check "yes" in any of the boxes, you are too dumb to teach EFL in Korea. |
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Carbon
Joined: 28 Jan 2011
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A clear indication that this clown is a troll is that they never check back in the thread. Think of the seriousness of the questions they have asked; make-or-break stuff, but do you see them engaging anyone? Nope. Gone. They wind you up and sit back and watch the show.
There is some fun watching people spend time they will never get back actually answering totally ridiculous questions, and even more when they keep asking and the questions keep getting weirder and weirder, yet still the replies pour in.
Gullible bunch. |
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