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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| There used to be a thread on Dave's called the "Freakiest Waygook Contest".... but it got deleted. So sad. So many entertaining stories in that thread, lost forever. |
Assuming that they moved it to the mod forums, but a necessary evil when you've got posters on here trying to settle online argument scores by posting personal info. That's probably the only reason they'd take it out. My favorite story was by Pyongshin Shanja where he tells of the Scottish ex-heroin addict and the dead cat at the club with the devout Korean Christian couple and the subsequent funeral for the dead cat. That was a worthy freaky weaguk story.
TLDR version: Crazy foreigner finds a dead cat on the street outside club, proceeds to swing dead cat around and attacks bouncers with cat corpse, accuses patrons of killing his cat. devout Christians hold a funeral for the cat and say prayers to appease the crazy foreigner. |
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Cave Dweller
Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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That reminds me of the story of the guy who wanted to teach the kids the word 'bruise.' He had a bruise on his leg, so he figured he'd show it to them. It was above his knee, so he figured he'd take down his pants and show them.
At least he wasn't going commando. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Nah, never worked with any pedo types....we had one who was a creep as in he would just always hit on the female co-teachers....he would also randomly excuse himself from meetings because, "I have to fart." He would then open the door, stand outside and reenter.
He eventually got fired. |
Pathetic. These losers are working in korea for a reason, they are complete and utter outcasts and rejects back home (I am not as I married a Korean from home and now live here), I do not *need* to be here. |
This is a pretty amazing post for the first page of a thread. How is marrying a Korean from home and moving to Korea to teach English any different than moving to Korea to teach English and marrying a Korean girl? Both of you are married to Korean girls, both of you are teaching English. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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Since the economic crash, most of the new teachers are 20 somethings. Economic migrants basically. Paying off loans and waiting for things to improve back home.
I can only imagine the creepy factor pre 2007. Must have been x10 haha. Now, I can't imagine these types even get interviews, let alone jobs. |
The Huffington Post had an article on the economy, and the article started that we will probably never see a full economic recovery like the one we had prior to 2009. It's a new world. Those young people are going to be waiting a long time if they expect things to drastically improve.
Staying in South Korea a long time can actually hurt your chances back home. If you do plan to come back home and work, I would only stay in Korea for 1-3 years max. Get back home and do anything to put yourself in a better position. |
Well as long as the government keeps doing the same things they've been doing the past 6 years. The economy boomed during the late 80's and through the 90's except for a very brief recession in between. It was post 2000 when the fed and politicians started doing stupid things, both Bush and Obama.
It doesn't have to be this way, but folks need to choose differently and vote differently. Folks felt the same way in the 1970's saying better days would never return and they did. Just have to make the right choices going forward and quit spending and printing money. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| bmaw01 wrote: |
| basic69isokay wrote: |
Since the economic crash, most of the new teachers are 20 somethings. Economic migrants basically. Paying off loans and waiting for things to improve back home.
I can only imagine the creepy factor pre 2007. Must have been x10 haha. Now, I can't imagine these types even get interviews, let alone jobs. |
The Huffington Post had an article on the economy, and the article started that we will probably never see a full economic recovery like the one we had prior to 2009. It's a new world. Those young people are going to be waiting a long time if they expect things to drastically improve.
Staying in South Korea a long time can actually hurt your chances back home. If you do plan to come back home and work, I would only stay in Korea for 1-3 years max. Get back home and do anything to put yourself in a better position. |
Well as long as the government keeps doing the same things they've been doing the past 6 years. The economy boomed during the late 80's and through the 90's except for a very brief recession in between. It was post 2000 when the fed and politicians started doing stupid things, both Bush and Obama.
It doesn't have to be this way, but folks need to choose differently and vote differently. Folks felt the same way in the 1970's saying better days would never return and they did. Just have to make the right choices going forward and quit spending and printing money. |
It's not the 70s anymore (plateau phase), it's the decline phase of the lifecycle. It won't suddenly "bounce back". Americans need to get real and start accepting things, the way the Japanese have done. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| bmaw01 wrote: |
| basic69isokay wrote: |
Since the economic crash, most of the new teachers are 20 somethings. Economic migrants basically. Paying off loans and waiting for things to improve back home.
I can only imagine the creepy factor pre 2007. Must have been x10 haha. Now, I can't imagine these types even get interviews, let alone jobs. |
The Huffington Post had an article on the economy, and the article started that we will probably never see a full economic recovery like the one we had prior to 2009. It's a new world. Those young people are going to be waiting a long time if they expect things to drastically improve.
Staying in South Korea a long time can actually hurt your chances back home. If you do plan to come back home and work, I would only stay in Korea for 1-3 years max. Get back home and do anything to put yourself in a better position. |
Well as long as the government keeps doing the same things they've been doing the past 6 years. The economy boomed during the late 80's and through the 90's except for a very brief recession in between. It was post 2000 when the fed and politicians started doing stupid things, both Bush and Obama.
It doesn't have to be this way, but folks need to choose differently and vote differently. Folks felt the same way in the 1970's saying better days would never return and they did. Just have to make the right choices going forward and quit spending and printing money. |
It's not the 70s anymore (plateau phase), it's the decline phase of the lifecycle. It won't suddenly "bounce back". Americans need to get real and start accepting things, the way the Japanese have done. |
The Japanese economy is crap because they have indecisive governments that lack the courage and conviction to act. Their bureacracy is famously stifling and has been for years. Did they reduce this after their bubble burst? Did they make the economy more competitive? Did they encourage entrepreneurialism? No, they kept the economy bloated and catered to all kinds of groups thereby discouraging growth and killing incentives for it. Many western countries are going in the same direction now. Why? Because people are either too dumb or too lazy to look elsewhere to see what happens when things don't change.
Can things recover? Yes, if people want it to and choose accordingly. Wil things stay the same? Yes, if people want it to and choose accordingly.
These same feelings were expressed in the 1970's. It's over, it'll never boom again, yadda, yadda, yadda. It did because folks finally wisened up and chose different choices. The baby boomers grew up. The boom from the late 80's to early 2000's was real. Post 2000 was the federal reserve getting involved mroe in the economy creating a bubble and the party of fiscal responsibility saying dumb things like "deficits don't matter" circa 2004ish. Abandoning one's beliefs post 2001 doesn't mean the things done prior were a failure.
Of course post 2008, the lunacy has merely accelerated. Most politicians lack the courage to act and it's the common people who suffer. They pander to the interest groups, the lobbiest, big labor, tree huggers, religion, etc and ignore the common man and woman. At any rate people will do what people will do. Let's hope folks do wake up and that the economy does recover.
Life in the 1970's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGd_9Tahzw |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Don't worry, people have been declaring the end of the American economy since the 60s, just like posters here have been declaring the end of English teaching in Korea since the 90s.
No but for serious this time guys! It really is the end this time, like seriously guys! |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| The Japanese economy is crap because they have indecisive governments that lack the courage and conviction to act. Their bureacracy is famously stifling and has been for years. Did they reduce this after their bubble burst? Did they make the economy more competitive? Did they encourage entrepreneurialism? No, they kept the economy bloated and catered to all kinds of groups thereby discouraging growth and killing incentives for it. |
Driving toward a cliff, and putting your foot on the gas, gets you to the cliff sooner. |
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Cave Dweller
Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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True.
What's your excuse?
| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| The Japanese economy is crap because they have indecisive governments that lack the courage and conviction to act. Their bureacracy is famously stifling and has been for years. Did they reduce this after their bubble burst? Did they make the economy more competitive? Did they encourage entrepreneurialism? No, they kept the economy bloated and catered to all kinds of groups thereby discouraging growth and killing incentives for it. |
Driving toward a cliff, and putting your foot on the gas, gets you to the cliff sooner. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Cave Dweller wrote: |
True.
What's your excuse? |
Doesn't make sense. |
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GENO123
Joined: 28 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:11 am Post subject: |
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Don't worry, people have been declaring the end of the American economy since the 60s, just like posters here have been declaring the end of English teaching in Korea since the 90s.
No but for serious this time guys! It really is the end this time, like seriously guys! |
EFL in Korea went down the drain a while ago. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: Creepy Coworkers? |
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Have you ever worked with a creepy coworker? There tends to be a lot of creepy teachers in South Korea.
Just a quick story.
I worked with a teacher who loved to bounce his students on his knee. The kids were also calling him uncle, and the drapes were always closed when he was teaching kindergarten. His classroom was dark as well. He would talk baby gibberish with his children. 
When we would go out he would tell Korean women that he thought they were pretty (yebbuda). He never got any numbers.  |
Sitting on his knee or his crotch? If it's the knee bouncing up and down, kids love that sh!t. If it's sitting on the crotch; that's pedo. I bounced kids on the knee in a room full of other kids and adults. They giggled and tee heed the morning away. Nothing wrong with it, but the darkened room, well, that's another can of worms. |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Sitting on his knee or his crotch? If it's the knee bouncing up and down, kids love that sh!t. If it's sitting on the crotch; that's pedo. I bounced kids on the knee in a room full of other kids and adults. |
So you're an exhibitionist!
What's next outdoor 'knee bouncing?'  |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: Creepy Coworkers? |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| bmaw01 wrote: |
Have you ever worked with a creepy coworker? There tends to be a lot of creepy teachers in South Korea.
Just a quick story.
I worked with a teacher who loved to bounce his students on his knee. The kids were also calling him uncle, and the drapes were always closed when he was teaching kindergarten. His classroom was dark as well. He would talk baby gibberish with his children.
When we would go out he would tell Korean women that he thought they were pretty (yebbuda). He never got any numbers. |
Sitting on his knee or his crotch? If it's the knee bouncing up and down, kids love that sh!t. If it's sitting on the crotch; that's pedo. I bounced kids on the knee in a room full of other kids and adults. They giggled and tee heed the morning away. Nothing wrong with it, but the darkened room, well, that's another can of worms. |
I think there's also a difference between whether the teacher is saying "Come here, kiddos!" or if the students are trying to sit in his lap. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:06 am Post subject: |
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Nah, never worked with any pedo types....we had one who was a creep as in he would just always hit on the female co-teachers....he would also randomly excuse himself from meetings because, "I have to fart." He would then open the door, stand outside and reenter.
He eventually got fired. |
It could have been worse. At least he left the room.  |
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