Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Who's Your Daddy?]

SR, and others, have invested far too much time on this site. If you do a search of some topic say in 2005, you'll see all sorts of poster, 90% of them have left the country, and whatever they said then it doesn't matter now. In 10 years, if SR is not still here posting, all the work he did will be forgotten. It doesn't matter. Really, do you remember topics of last year? Probably not. It doesn't matter.

I only post on this site because I'm deskwarming. (When I wasn't a public school teacher, I'd never even signed up.)

[Steelrails]

We're teaching English in Korea. 90% of whatever we do will be forgotten. It's called deskwarming time. What else to do but argue with some boobs while listening to Opie & Anthony or Dvorak or the replay of the Tigers-Royals game.

I'll freely admit that I obssess over this site while I'm at work, but give an alcoholic partier some credit, I have a fricking life after 5PM.

[nicwr2002]

Discovering that these messages are generic doesn't denounce the fact that it could be targeted at someone and others. Let's say someone received these messages only after posting something negative and someone else received the messages for no apparent reason. Does that mean that both sets of messages were just completely random? The one sent to the person that didn't post could been a random message, but the other one could be targeted and appear to be random.

Wouldn't it make more sense to scatter these messages to random people instead of targeting them to certain people. By sending them randomly, it decreases the likely-hood of people taking it seriously. They will just think that, "Well, other people have received the same message so it's no big deal." Like I said before, I don't think it's very difficult for someone just to copy that message and send it out to people they don't like while also sending it to random accounts.

Now, I've seen these other posts about threatening messages before, so I know they are generic bot messages that appear on other sites. If it had been just me that received a message, then I would have chalked it up to random. However, two people have received messages after posting in the same thread. Both of the posters received those messages after saying something negative about someone or saying something positive about Japan.

[Steelrails]

So is A) Someone lurking Dave's for the second a negative post about Korea comes up and instantly hitting their accounts with this spam bot message (the account of which will be deleted), but making sure to spred everything around so as to maintain concealment while simultaneously dilluting the impact of the message to the point where one dismisses it. or B) This is all coincidental and the two accounts that received the message are part of the latest wave that have hit Dave's.

You certainly raise a possibility that is not impossible. But I think it just as likely could have been coincidence. In each of the previous attacks, basher posters have assumed its been Korea haters, but the messages show themselves to be completely random. I'll take the history over the years of these attacks vs. 2 hits this past week.

[le-paul]

just in case anyone wants to compare what was sent...

the FIRST one said,

"die of aids f@@kwit'.


the second said,


Isn't the internet great... etc

both were sent by mp5434rok

if you do a search on google 'i typed in die of aids etc spam bot', nothing will come up. Does look like a person did it.

[Gorf]

Yeah that's some Korean nationalist. I've gotten them a few times too.

I agree with the whole "my bubble" versus "out of my bubble" idea. It's the same reason that the inside of Korean buildings look nice, but the outsides look like crap.

At home people are happy to keep their spaces clean and tidy, but they lack a sense of community (Confucianism, city living, overpopulation, nature and nurture) and the whole rapid change of the economy.

[Moondoggy]

[Moondoggy]

[Koharski]

Moondoggy is gone now.

Koharski

[atwood]

[Steelrails]

[le-paul]

[transmogrifier]

I think I'll miss his smile the most.

[Zyzyfer]

[supershi2012]

Um, getting back to the topic at hand...

My friends and I were in Seoul train station waiting for the train home. We were sitting in a corner with our bags. Not far from our corner was a platform that Koreans were sitting on. As the day wore on (we were there for a while), there was a steady collection of bottles, cups, and plastic wrappers. Now my friends and I bought stuff from the CU, but kept the plastic bag to toss our stuff. One of the security guards come over to us and tells us to get up (at this point we've been there for about 5 hours). He then looks at the trash and looks at us. He asks us if we had a bag. I give him the bag full of our trash and he proceeds to clean up.

There are trash cans on the first floor of the station. I'm sure some of the people had to pass them on the way out/to the tracks.

I also wonder how often does a foreigner get chewed out for something like littering...