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uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

what the hell does "dirty math" mean?

i would think that with the korean tendency to blanche at all things 'dirty' a 'dirty math' hagwon would go bankrupt immediately.

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

must have something to do with multiplication Wink

sheba · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Here there and everywhere!

hahahahahahaha!!

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

indiercj · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

You know their phone number. Why ask here?

inkoreaforgood · Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Location: Inchon

I thought it was something like, "divide the legs and multiply".

tomato · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:13 am Post subject:

As near as I can figure:

�� = Negligence Room
�ι� ��ȭ �� = General Deepening Room
��Ŵ�� = Received Letter Preparation Room
�� = College Preparation Room

I should sign up for the �� , because I have been neglected.

Hwajangsil Ajumma · Joined: 02 May 2005 Location: On my knees in the stall

Well in that case there's no way I'm going anywhere near the �ι� ��ȭ ��. I'm far too capacious already, even that great guy Squat Toilet can't make edge-to-edge contact, and that was with his ski-glove.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

someone else on the-board-who-cannot-be-named suggested that it was a course for 'rough maths', ie. really quick on-the-ball calculations.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I had a minor bizarre chat with three young Korean women in Sinchon yesterday. They looked like first year E-dae students. One was working on some kind of survey. "Find a white person and interview him". I was sitting at the table outside the Sinchon Starbucks trying to get a tan before the rainy season. Anyway she gave me a questionnaire. I invited them to sit down. One girl had a small dog. This is an important detail.

Anyway, it was your typical survey... what do you like about Korea? How long have you been here? The English was a bit tortured like "Why don't you give me your email?"

Anyway, one of the questions was "What do you think of Korean social protection culture?"

Errr. Their English was pretty stinky but I tried anyway "what do you mean by this?"

The girl referred to her original notes and then asked her friend for help. The one with the dog said "mung mung tang". "Woof woof soup?" I thought. But no. That can't be right.

"Eating of the dog soup," the survey girl said.

"Oh boshintang!" I said back.

Made no bloody sense but I answered "It's part of Korean culture and should be understood within that context."

Huh.