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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| W.T.Carl wrote: |
| This is classic-- the malignant dwarf is building a nuke and will test it soon. The govt, which doesn't want to deal with it, uses the media to whip up anti Japanese feeings over a silly piece of rock. And your average Kim, Pak and Chung buys it hook, line and sinker. |
100% on the money with that one! |
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nateyb
Joined: 28 Dec 2003
Location: witness protection program (or Bundang)
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| I want to see the map... Too funny |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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In a crap map on the wall of one classroom a kid or two had to write Korea over every country.
Truth hurts kids. |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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Would it be too petty to photocopy a replacement patch for Japan that you could stick back up on the map... while "accidentally" making it larger than before?  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| I was doing flags today and my middle school brats said they really wanted to go to Japan. It's possible they were just joking, I guess. I told them I'm thinking about going to Japan ... after I quit my present contract. |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 4:40 am Post subject: |
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I had an interesting lesson last month where I taught my high school students basic geography vocabulary and terms and set them up in teams to research an assigned country and then present their findings to class in English.
It was kind of an eye opener how ignorant they were regarding places outside of Korea. Really uniformed, even about neighbouring countries. My students said they were shocked to find out that Japan had more people than Korean and that America is so much bigger than Korea in size and that Korea is actually a pretty wealthy country.
I asked some of the Korean teachers at my high school about it and they said geography classes are pretty much exclusively about just Korea and don't really cover anything else.
At least now there are some students in rural Gyeonggido that know a little more about the outside world. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| hyalucent wrote: |
| Would it be too petty to photocopy a replacement patch for Japan that you could stick back up on the map... while "accidentally" making it larger than before? |
Now THAT one is funny.
Only everyone could figure out it was I who did it.  |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| It was kind of an eye opener how ignorant they were regarding places outside of Korea. Really uniformed, even about neighbouring countries. My students said they were shocked to find out that Japan had more people than Korean and that America is so much bigger than Korea in size and that Korea is actually a pretty wealthy country. |
That would mean that their impression of Korea is of a big country (bigger than Japan at least) with lots of people, much poorer than other countries.
Sounds more like Nigeria than Korea.
Derrek, perhaps you should do the opposite. Take off a new country from the map every day and tell them why. Take off Denmark next. Tell them you can't stand how Denmark thinks that Hans Island up north is theirs and that you're going to back up your Canadian buddies on Dave's ESL all the way by taking them off the map. That includes Greenland too (bloody imperialist Danes).
Next day it should be Spain or Morocco depending on which side of their petty island dispute you feel like taking. |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 9:49 am Post subject: |
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Oh, don't even start with Seychelles.  The next time I see them on a map they're good as gone! |
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JennyJJ
Joined: 01 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 11:13 am Post subject: |
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When I lived in Saudi Arabia - every map in the kingdom had Israel magic-markered off (is that a phrasal verb? or a participial adjective?) the map.
Koreans do seem to be quite - let us say "less than knowledgeable" about the rest of the world.
Had some students who thought the whole silly East Sea vs. Sea of Japan thing was so unique. They were actually kind of miffed when I told them it was no different than the Persian Gulf vs. the Arabian Gulf issue . . .
But then they were miffed too when I asked them when they were going to get this silly Dok Do island stuff sorted out. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| My students said they were shocked to find out that Japan had more people than Korean and that America is so much bigger than Korea in size and that Korea is actually a pretty wealthy country. |
When I was a newbie ESL teacher I had one class of middle school girls, all named Lee. Every single one of the 10 or 11 was named Lee. But that isn't my point. They were beginners and we were doing adjectives. I said, "Korea is small." One of the girls said, "No, Korea no small." We went back and forth for a minute until she burst into tears...She never came back. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| My students said they were shocked to find out that Japan had more people than Korean and that America is so much bigger than Korea in size and that Korea is actually a pretty wealthy country. |
When I was a newbie ESL teacher I had one class of middle school girls, all named Lee. Every single one of the 10 or 11 was named Lee. But that isn't my point. They were beginners and we were doing adjectives. I said, "Korea is small." One of the girls said, "No, Korea no small." We went back and forth for a minute until she burst into tears...She never came back. |
It's best not to toy with their perception of national greatness. The next time you teach "small", use parts of the Korean anatomy instead. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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The next time you teach "small", use parts of the Korean anatomy instead.
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But I have small eyes and feet, too. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| It was kind of an eye opener how ignorant they were regarding places outside of Korea. Really uniformed, even about neighbouring countries. My students said they were shocked to find out |
I'm new to Korea so I thought a great idea for my first "free talking" adult class would be "a tour of Korea" -- students would imagine they had a friend coming from America to visit Korea, where would they take him and what would they show him? They were struck dumb by the proposition.
For several minutes I thought they just didn't understand the setup. But they knew what I was asking, and they knew the language to respond. They just had never considered the idea. I suppose, they didn't know what they have in Korea that would be new + different to a foreigner.
It only took about an hour to get "try kimchi... it's spicy" and move on to another topic. |
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