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[peppergirl]

Definitely not illegal but you won't catch many women smoking on the streets. On campus it's a different story though, no ajumma's and ajosshi's around to yell at them

[Real Reality]

peppergirl,
Korean professors are very progressive and liberal, right?

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[Keepongoing]

I had a female student explain her reluctance to smoke in public and that 5 years ago it was illegal for a woman to smoke in public. At the university, where I teach, I see the girl students smoking in the back of buildings and behind trees--reminds me of high school.

[Hollywoodaction]

What cracks me up is how some male students will say women shouldn't smoke because it's bad for fetuses, as if women are always pregnant. When ever I hear that, I point out that smoking is a leading cause of impotance. Always gets the non-smokers laughing.

[Hotel Cheonan]

Since I have been working at a university I've only seen two women smoking on campus. The second one was only a couple of weeks ago.

[peppergirl]

[Hotel Cheonan]

Ha! Funny you should mention that, she was outside the arts building.

[just because]

There is a new teacher that has started at my school.

Really nice girl and she has just come back from vancouver for a year.

I asked her what was the best thing about living in Canada???

Answer: I can smoke outside without some old man going stupid.

[the eye]

it may not be illegal, but it certainly can result in some nasty ramifications.
a korean coworker was hanging out with her b-friend downtown one fine sunday afternoon, when she was spotted by one of her students' father.

she didn't know about 'being seen' by this man until the next day.
she was called into the directors office and warned that if she is 'seen' smoking in public again, that the hogwan would be forced to fire her. my director is a woman as well, and until that day, i really respected her more liberal, progressive attitudes.

on the other hand, one of mu students told me today that her PE teacher smokes on the school yard during class. he's male, so nothing is said about that, or the fact that he buys beer in a paper cup from the neighboring �Ĵ� .

[tommynomad]

I'm torn between telling my smoking female students to quit (because smoking is bad for you) and cheering them on (because it drives the men & boys here nuts).

So I do both.

[mindmetoo]

[mindmetoo]

[dogbert]

Why do Koreans smoke so much in the first place?

[Bulsajo]

It's not illegal, but...

I guess no one remembers the case from 7-8 years back where a male teacher caught his female high-school student sneaking a smoke around the corner from the school?

I'm trying to remember the details but they're foggy- he either beat her severely, or into a coma, or beat her to death. He was charged but got off (or got a suspended sentence or something) because his intent wasn't to kill but discipline her. It happened in one of the Cholla or Gyeongsan provinces, somewhere down south.

Sorry I can't remember the details. I know this sounds like something I 'heard from a friend of a friend' but it I read it the Herald. It was pre-internet days for me, so that would have been around 96-97.

On the flip side I've worked with plenty of (foreign) female co-workers who smoked anywhere with no problems worse than the occasional sideways glance.