Korean Job Discussion Forums

[harddrive]

Yes, sneezed on. How many times a week does a Korean teacher sneeze in your direction? No, not the kids. They're kids. But the teachers? I get hit around 2 or 3 times a week. Sometimes not full-on and directly, but enough to gross me out.

Do you tell them anything when they do it? I have, but they do it anyway. Plus, it's a hard thing to say to someone.

Ever take a shot while you are trying to eat lunch or dinner?

I want to hear stories.

[Gopher]

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[jajdude]

The sociable sharing of food and illness.

[billyg]

It's actually quite astounding at how many times you get sneezed and coughed on in the classroom... all those germs quarantined in such a small room. It's a wonder you're not sick as hell all the time... although, you kind of always have something lingering, like a cough, globs of snot in the nose... or it just me?

[keithinkorea]

As teachers if north Korea attacks Seoul with biological weapons we'll be safe.

Us folks and doctors come into contact with such nasty germs on such a regular basis that we must have some of the strongest immune systems in the world. When I first came to Korea I was sick all the time, I always had a cold or a stomach problem or a mild case of hives or something.

Now I'm 'superkeef!" I hardly ever get sick, ajoshi's spit on the street doesn't phase me, kids coughing in my face is rude but it doesn't put me in bed like it did when I was a newbie, lack of hygiene in the restraunts doesn't give me the trots anymore.

I often have a stuffed up nose and cough up a little crap from my lungs but this is prety normal in Korea. There are lots of particulants in the air here because of all the damn cars, this is not sickness but your body rejecting nasty pollution crap. I also smoke so some of the coughing, blocked up nose thing comes from that.

I think a lot of people smoke in Korea to reduce their sense of smell. Seoul stinks like a toilet in many places, especially in the summer.