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| If the authorities offered it, would you turn in tourist teachers for 3,000,000 won a pop? |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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 Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| cabeza wrote: |
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Nah, digging in the heels on this one. One side is claiming they haven't the foggiest clue between a Chevy, a BMW, and a Ferrari. I'm saying that they're full of crap. I have to call shenanigans on that. |
Stop talking about freakin Chevys. No one outside of North America knows anything about them.
And no one is saying that. In fact several people have all said that Ferraris are the exception and they are a universal symbol of "quality" in cars. The Harvard of cars if you will. And you could throw BMW, Mercs and a few others up there.
Just as we would all accept that most people would have heard of :
1 Harvard University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 University of Cambridge
4 University of Oxford
5 University of California, Berkeley
6 Stanford University
7 Princeton University
8 University of California, Los Angeles
9 University of Tokyo
10 Yale University
Seeing as there are more universities in the world than car companies we can't assign a car for each university. But lets say the top tier are Ferraris.
Then we have the BMWs, Porsches and Mercs:
11 California Institute of Technology
12 University of Michigan
13 Columbia University
14 University of Chicago
14 Imperial College London
16 University of Toronto
17 Cornell University
18 University of Pennsylvania
19 Johns Hopkins University
20 University College London
Beyond Columbia and Cornell I will guarantee that the average Korean mother wouldnt have any idea about them. My girlfirend is a teacher and i can promise you she hasnt heard of most of them.
I had no idea that Michigan had a good university. Or Toronto. I've heard of these places but if someone told me to place them on a list from 1 -100, I couldn't.
They are all obviously world class universities. But if I was trying to upsell myself to one of the mothers who I see each morning walking her kids to school, she is not going to be any more impressed with Imperial College of London on my CV than she would be with Universoty of British Colunbia (31) or University of Sydney (49) or Boston University (82).
Just as most Koreans wouldn't know if they should be anymore impressed if was driving a Lexus, a Chevy or a new Hyundai Equus. I sure as hell wouldnt know either. |
Luckily, us Canadians don't get all hung up about universities. You other nationalities have fun with that. |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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No, I wouldn't turn anyone in. Oddly enough, though, I wouldn't feel bad if someone here working illegally were caught, fined and deported. And that's happened to some people I've known over the years. If you don't know the risks involved in living and working illegally in a country, you're a tool. The people who I know who got pinched knew the deal and lived with the concequences.
A while ago, though, there were fewer choices. These days, people can apply for and receive 'investor visas' if they want to open a business. |
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goat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| cabeza wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
Nah, digging in the heels on this one. One side is claiming they haven't the foggiest clue between a Chevy, a BMW, and a Ferrari. I'm saying that they're full of crap. I have to call shenanigans on that. |
Stop talking about freakin Chevys. No one outside of North America knows anything about them.
And no one is saying that. In fact several people have all said that Ferraris are the exception and they are a universal symbol of "quality" in cars. The Harvard of cars if you will. And you could throw BMW, Mercs and a few others up there.
Just as we would all accept that most people would have heard of :
1 Harvard University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 University of Cambridge
4 University of Oxford
5 University of California, Berkeley
6 Stanford University
7 Princeton University
8 University of California, Los Angeles
9 University of Tokyo
10 Yale University
Seeing as there are more universities in the world than car companies we can't assign a car for each university. But lets say the top tier are Ferraris.
Then we have the BMWs, Porsches and Mercs:
11 California Institute of Technology
12 University of Michigan
13 Columbia University
14 University of Chicago
14 Imperial College London
16 University of Toronto
17 Cornell University
18 University of Pennsylvania
19 Johns Hopkins University
20 University College London
Beyond Columbia and Cornell I will guarantee that the average Korean mother wouldnt have any idea about them. My girlfirend is a teacher and i can promise you she hasnt heard of most of them.
I had no idea that Michigan had a good university. Or Toronto. I've heard of these places but if someone told me to place them on a list from 1 -100, I couldn't.
They are all obviously world class universities. But if I was trying to upsell myself to one of the mothers who I see each morning walking her kids to school, she is not going to be any more impressed with Imperial College of London on my CV than she would be with Universoty of British Colunbia (31) or University of Sydney (49) or Boston University (82).
Just as most Koreans wouldn't know if they should be anymore impressed if was driving a Lexus, a Chevy or a new Hyundai Equus. I sure as hell wouldnt know either. |
Luckily, us Canadians don't get all hung up about universities. You other nationalities have fun with that. |
Us other nationalities need a university degree to work here. Not everyone is fortunate enough to come here and work on a tourist visa, a.k.a. high school diploma degree. |
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coralreefer_1
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:12 am Post subject: |
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Doesnt matter really. If one were to actually turn someone in hoping to get a reward, the authorities will just say something to the effect of "this person has already been reported to us"...which nullifies any reward one might have gotten.
Whether that is true or not I cannot say, but I do remember a discussion here a few years ago where a newspaper article was written about mothers complaining that they didnt/couldnt get misc. rewards for reporting illegal teachers because every mother who did was told the above line by the authorities. |
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