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ghostrider
Joined: 27 Jun 2011
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I think I may have misremembered something. His French Canadian friend was the one who was deported and later committed suicide:
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I had an acquaintance here who was from Quebec, mother tongue French and went to a French university. His degree and transcripts were written in English. His English was perfect. Eminently more understandable than any British, Aussie, Kiwi or South African I have ever met (no offence - just sayin')
Anyway, someone found out and ratted him out. What a despicable act. A call was made, immi found out, he was fired and deported.
He's dead now, he hung himself. That was what started my dear late friend Yu_Bumsuk's tumble. They were very close friends here in Korea.
This place can get to you and sometimes you can't see it coming. |
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goat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Fuzzy_Dunlop
Joined: 18 Jun 2014
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| goat wrote: |
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Your issue is...? |
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goat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I knew YBS rather well. When I see rumors flying it hits me a little emotionally. That's my issue. |
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Fuzzy_Dunlop
Joined: 18 Jun 2014
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:49 am Post subject: |
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| goat wrote: |
| I knew YBS rather well. When I see rumors flying it hits me a little emotionally. That's my issue. |
I thought you were being snarky (which, to be fair, is a safe bet on this forum). My apologies. Sorry about your friend. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:51 am Post subject: |
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| I remember him well from years on Dave's and Waygook.org. Strange timing of this news, if true: I was just reading something of his here. |
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Oldtimer
Joined: 17 Mar 2016
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 2:50 am Post subject: |
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I received a private message from Harpeau, passing on the following from another friend of YBS's (called Derek). He said:
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Last I talked to him was a year ago, chuseok. We usually got together every year at that time, when he came to Seoul, but he didn't contact me this past year. I would very much like to hear what happened to Stephen, but cannot write on Dave's. I have no id there
You can mention that his good friend was Cruisemonkey on Dave's, but I only met him once. |
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johnny_russian
Joined: 24 Dec 2012
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| Oldtimer wrote: |
I received a private message from Harpeau, passing on the following from another friend of YBS's (called Derek). He said:
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Last I talked to him was a year ago, chuseok. We usually got together every year at that time, when he came to Seoul, but he didn't contact me this past year. I would very much like to hear what happened to Stephen, but cannot write on Dave's. I have no id there
You can mention that his good friend was Cruisemonkey on Dave's, but I only met him once. |
I can only assume Cruisemonkey is the gentleman who took his own life, mentioned above by Ghostrider. I never met Cruisemonkey, but YBS mentioned him a lot and always in a good way - they were good friends. Cruisemonkey's Dave's profile
Sad situation. |
i really don't think it's cruisemonkey. there is a guy on that other ESL site who posts under that name. his profile says he last logged in on 1 April 2016, so a few days ago.
according to his posts on that other site, he's teaching at a uni in China and has been for the last 5 or 6 years. |
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Oldtimer
Joined: 17 Mar 2016
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 5:56 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you for clarifying. Sincere apologies to Cruisemonkey. |
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swashbuckler
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you for clarifying. Sincere apologies to Cruisemonkey. |
PM sent. And exactly how long do you plan on keeping this cryptic thread going if nobody on here can actually confirm his death? |
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Oldtimer
Joined: 17 Mar 2016
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| Hopefully someone will show up with an explanation as to what happened. Doesn't look like it, though. I suspect the only people who know are family members. So it shall remain a mystery. |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 2:07 am Post subject: |
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Oldtimer~ PM sent.
He has been confirmed dead, I am sad to say.
One thought would be to have a memorial/wake/toast to his memory. |
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Oldtimer
Joined: 17 Mar 2016
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you once again, Harpeau. The cause of death remains unknown, but it is now all but certain that YBS has indeed passed away. |
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swashbuckler
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 6:18 am Post subject: |
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Oldtimer~ PM sent.
He has been confirmed dead, I am sad to say.
One thought would be to have a memorial/wake/toast to his memory. |
I don't understand. If you can somehow confirm that Stephen (I am using his real name out of respect) has already passed away with 100% certainty, then what is preventing you from getting the how/why/when/where? |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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This just in from his school, to my friend:
"Dear _____
I can confirm that Stephen's death was ruled as sudden death, not suicide, due to cardiac factors.
I am unable to provide details of Stephens family to you but will pass on your email address to them.
Regards
Mary Nixon
Principal
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I, myself want to offer my condolences to those that new him.
Harpeau |
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