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Did anyone get Chuseok gifts?
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swinewho



Joined: 17 Aug 2009
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:29 pm    Post subject: Did anyone get Chuseok gifts? Reply with quote
I just got 40,000 worth of vouchers.

NICE! Very Happy Looking forward to the 4 day weekend - shame it's not 5 like some schols are getting but I cant complain really!
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Harpeau



Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am not aware of anyone getting 5 days off. Everyone that I know is getting 4 days off.
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joeteacher



Joined: 11 Jul 2007
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Got about 15kgs of that Korean tea fruity mix stuff. Choseok gifts always remind me of this:

Stacy: Well, don't you want to open your present?
Wayne Campbell: If it's a severed head I'm going to be very upset
Stacy: Open it.
Wayne Campbell: What is it?
Stacy: It's a gun rack.
Wayne Campbell: A gun rack... a gun rack. I don't even own *a* gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?
Stacy: You don't like it? Fine. You know Wayne, if you're not careful, you're going to lose me.
Wayne Campbell: I lost you 2 months ago. We broke up. Are you mental? Get the net!



It's the thought that counts though. My boss is pretty nice to include me.
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Leon



Joined: 31 May 2010
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Harpeau wrote:
I am not aware of anyone getting 5 days off. Everyone that I know is getting 4 days off.


I have 5 days. All I got were some grapes from the parents and some of the rice cakes with the sweet stuff in the middle. They're pretty good, so it's better than nothing.
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northway



Joined: 05 Jul 2010
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
40,000 won? Chump change. I got 200,000 in gift certificates this time around, which is actually a bit low.
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swinewho



Joined: 17 Aug 2009
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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40,000 won? Chump change. I got 200,000 in gift certificates this time around, which is actually a bit low


I guess it's because you're a better person that me!
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travelnguy



Joined: 27 Sep 2007
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I get five days off. As for gifts, nothing. I did get many apologies as the Chuseok tissue boxes were being handed out. Apparently, my name did not get put on the list so they didn't have enough. Not sure I'll be able to sleep tonight.
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weso1



Joined: 26 Aug 2010
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scored a set of some awesome glass lock jars. Pretty cool. Be sure to look for them on the "buy/sell" page in a few months though. Too heavy to ship back and forth. haha.
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fortysixyou



Joined: 08 Jun 2006
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I got a big box of NOTHING.

Not that I mind terribly. Last year it was a spam box set, the year before a shampoo/conditioner box set, the year before wine, and the year before canned tuna.

My K-GF got a 50,000 won Homeplus gift card.

It's no big deal, but we big-noses tend to be overlooked on holidays here. Chuseok, Solnal, and especially Teacher's Day in my experience.
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tatertot



Joined: 21 Oct 2008
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I didn't get anything this year (currently unemployed, woohoo!Very Happy), but at my first academy I got a huge box of laver. All the Korean and foreign teachers got one, but all the foreign teachers were like, "What am I supposed to do with this?"
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TheUrbanMyth



Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Harpeau wrote:
I am not aware of anyone getting 5 days off. Everyone that I know is getting 4 days off.




Five days here...but that's because my school's "founding day" is on the Wednesday.

No Chusok gifts though...oh well spam and tuna aren't among my favorite things to eat regardless.
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
fortysixyou wrote:
I got a big box of NOTHING.

Not that I mind terribly. Last year it was a spam box set, the year before a shampoo/conditioner box set, the year before wine, and the yea