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[Cave Dweller]

I am opening a hagwon as soon as I can get the plans in place.

It is marketed towards grandmothers. It is an elevator hagwon. My marketing tactic is 'Now you too will know how to use this mysterious machine that we call an elevator'.

Here is a rundown of the curriculum:

Week 1: Approaching an elevator: Learning to look at the arrow as approaching the elevator. Learning not to get into a down elevator and look dumbfounded as you had planned to go up. Also to notice that some elevators do not service all floors of a building.

Week 2: Learning to press the right button. Learning that if you want to go up, you press up. If the elevator is above you, do not press down to 'bring it down.' Also, learn not to press the desired floor button multiple times and be dumbfounded as you turned it off with multiple presses.

Week 3: Elevator etiquette: A practical exercise!! We go to a real life place and learn first hand how to ride an elevator. Learn not to push, not to spit, how to know which floor you are on at all times. You have to look at a display. I know it's hard but hey, we all have to learn to use our eyes and ears at some point in our lives.

[atwood]

That might have had a chance as humor if you hadn't gone cruel with the grandmother reference. Plenty of kids have trouble with elevators here.

[Cave Dweller]

I have never seen kids being unreasonably confused in an elevator. Just unreasonably annoying and rude. They could benefit from week 3 curriculum. The grandmothers need all 3 weeks.

[atwood]

[Cave Dweller]

Not confused at all.

[Chaparrastique]

Its amazing how many Koreans walk up to an elevator and wait ages without actually pressing the button to call it.

[Cave Dweller]

That is included in week 2's curriculum.

I have also seen it. Bystander effect, me thinks.

[Hokie21]

Week 4 How to form a line.

Week 5 How to stay in a line.

[EZE]

I nearly always take the stairs, so I don't have many encounters with them on elevators. But the one time I took the elevator was post-surgery at a hospital and two grannies trying to beat each other on the elevator both ran into me simultaneously. I know it seems counterintuitive, but never take an elevator in Korea if you've just had surgery. That's when it's most important to take the stairs.

[Cave Dweller]

Covered in week 3 in the etiquette section.

But if my business succeeds, what will ESL cafe posters make fun of?

[SeoulNate]

Never have understood why so many people in Korea press both the up and the down arrow when they want to ride it one way or the other... I see it happen every single day w/o fail.

[Cave Dweller]

Week 2 Day 2 curriculum.

[le-paul]

its not half as annoying as when people get to the top of an escalator and then stand still as if theyre still riding it.

Someone has to be employed to prevent the enormous clusterfuck of people doing this in most supermarkets

[Cave Dweller]

My shopping cart in the back of the heels usually works to prevent this.

How about people (usually grandmothers) that are afraid of escalators? They stand at the top timing their foot touching it, as if barely grazing the wrong part will cause their foot to be sucked in.

[Troglodyte]

Here's an instructional video that you can use in your courses.

http://youtu.be/WkkT2tII_GI