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byrddogs · Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Location: Shanghai

So, the holiday is right around the corner and it's time to receive gifts. I work at a Korean school in China these days, and we got our Chuseok gift from school today. It was one of those toiletries gift sets (lots of smelly soap, weird toothpaste, and shampoo/conditioner). I'm thankful, as I'll just pass this on to the wife. My Korean teacher colleagues were a bit disappointed, since they got this instead of the usual bonus that they were used to back in-country there. The best gift for me is the 9 days paid time off. Thanks Korea and China for having this wonderful time to celebrate.

What did you guys get, if anything yet?

rowdie3 · Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Location: Itaewon, Seoul

We get a choice between soap/shampoo set, wine set, tuna set, and vitamins. Went with the shampoo this year. Love Chuseok gift sets!!

deizio · Joined: 15 Jun 2007

Everyone at my company got some vouchers that you have to spend at outdoor markets, something to do with helping small businesses. Haven't tried them yet but it includes hundreds of places including all of Namdaemun so not just limited to fish and flowers. Apparently some stall holders will swap these things for cash for a commission but I'll try to stay in the spirit and spread them around.

Bottle of wine for everyone too. The third "gift" is that you can take Tuesday off without going through the vacation request procedure, but they will still charge you a day. I booked the whole week off months ago so kinda moot for me.

Hugo85 · Joined: 27 Aug 2010

Tuna/spam set.. as a student it was cool

oppa637 · Joined: 05 Dec 2011

Got 100k won for online shopping. I bought a Polaroid camera with it.

Flashcard_Queen · Joined: 17 Apr 2012

So far, a box with about 20 packages of laver for making kimbap. I've made my own in the past, and will again at some point, but when it costs so little to buy at the local kimbap shops, it seems like a waste of time to make myself; cutting up all the veggies, frying egg, cooking rice on the stove, since I don't own a rice cooker.

I'll be giving a lot of it to my sister-in-law.

Still, it's the thought that counts.

Porksta · Joined: 05 May 2011

Got a 50000 Shinsegae gift certificate from my boss. That's it.

andrewchon · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:23 pm Post subject:

I got a slice of red bean rice cake. Teachers got together and played tee-ball. We ate un-roasted peanuts, boiled pig feets, heavily marinated fowl flesh of some kind (fairly sure it wasn't chicken), AND crickets marinated in soy-sauce.

HANGRY · Joined: 04 Feb 2011

Socks.

I must have been a bad boy this year.

waynehead · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Location: Jongno

Cooking oil set. I don't think I've bought canola/olive oil in the last coupla years, we always get the same gift on holidays.

Who's Your Daddy? · Joined: 30 May 2010 Location: Victoria, Canada.

I have a full time public school job. I've worked for the district for 6 years and never got a present. Well actually, one year they gave me a present, but then they called my cell after I'd left and asked me to return it, because it was for a Korean teacher.

I also work part-time at a hogwon. They have always given me a holiday present.