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rumpolestitskin
Joined: 12 Jun 2005
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nothing is safe at a hagwon. It was foolish to even bring in the magazine.
Maxim is soft porn..for guys who are too embarrassed to walk into a shop and buy real porn. |
Not sure if all of us have seen Maxim before. I'd hardly class it as soft porn. The fact that in the UK children can buy it would seem to indicate this.
If these K idiots had seen real porn before then there would be no questions or problems here. I guess your just going to have to consider your job as being a teacher of life and the world world as well as English.
It's not porn and theres no reason why you shouldn't have taken it to school. The only people who have done anything wrong are teh kids. Get your K teachers to take them to one side and teach them some respect for other peoples property with a stick.
I'd leave the magazine on your desk so that everyone in the office can see it and have a read while your teaching. Have them find out first hand that it's not porn. Lets face it the kids have no discipline not to go through your bag, shameless curisioty. your can bet your botton dollar that the teachers suffer from the shamelessness. |
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pet lover
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul
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At one kiddie hagwon where I worked, the boss had several subscriptions to "sports" newspapers...the kind full of half-naked women...breasts completely visible. The papers were right out in full sight and I really hated how I always had to pull the boys away from those papers and herd them into class. Their minds CERTAINLY weren't on the lesson.  If you had brought Maxim to THAT hagwon, either the boss would have swiped it or it would have been passed around to all the boys. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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There was a "sex scandal" first kiddie hogwon I worked for. My co-worker/friend/roommate used the international signs for male and female
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/TECH/science/10/14/asexual.study/story.male.female.symbols.jpg
to explain the difference between "he" and "she". No problems so far. A month later he confiscated a toy from a 10 year old girl from that class. The day after that the kids in his in his advanced class were all atwitter and one of them asked, "You drew WHAT on the board?!?" Apparently said 10 year-old was spreading the rumor that he was drawing genitalia on the board. The director chewed him out (and in the process showed that he did not know how to pronounce the word "*beep*"  ). The school's somewhat simple-minded bus driver joined the gossipfest.
It was an unpleasant month or so for him, but the incident was forgotten about. I hope it's the same for the OP.
Ironically, this same hogwon was on the same block as two "business clubs", and I was always picking up those damn "coffee girl" business cards off the steps so the kids wouldn't see them. A street vendor also liked to sell Japanese porn DVDs across from our school. 
Anyway, the moral of the story is be careful out there folks. Korean morals about sex often don't seem to make a lot of sense to us, but misunderstandings happen all too easily and we usually will NOT get the benefit of the doubt. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| What a funny story. Seriously, I wouldn't worry about it too much. And really, who cares what hogwan kids / parents think? Lots of western women read pornographic literature, smoke, swear, have tattoos, do lots of things Koreans would find appalling (even if they do the same things in private) - welcome to the world of westerners. If it turns into such a big deal just offer to have a meeting with the offended party and explain yourself. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
nothing is safe at a hagwon. It was foolish to even bring in the magazine.
Maxim is soft porn..for guys who are too embarrassed to walk into a shop and buy real porn. |
I disagree. Soft porn is nudity, as in they don't attempt to hide the "naughty bits", but there is no sex. Hard porn is nudity plus sex. No nudity is not porn. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| You fool. You don't carry that stuff around with you. You want to LOOK LIKE someone who reads porn? Are you trying to look un-educated? Try getting your news from real sources, like the newspaper. Leave the porn at home. Gross. |
Was that addressed to me?
Where did I say it was my news source?
Usually you don't come off this belligerently boneheaded in your posts, wow. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| The key question to determine if this is much ado about nothing isn't whether or not the school recognises the vast gulf separating Maxim from hardcore deviant porno magazines. Because they won't. To them, it's a mere quibble. The key question is, will they decide to just drop the whole matter, or will they decide ride it into the sunset. |
Nah, it's not a big deal. They just think of me as a perv now, I guess. But considering the VP said that if I ever do bring porn, bring it up so he can look at it, I don't think this is the spark of a conflagaration. That same VP lasciviously flirts with every woman that passes his view and is constantly trying to set me up. I think the women here expect men in general to be pervs, given the boss and now ... me.  |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| rumpolestitskin wrote: |
| If these K idiots had seen real porn before then there would be no questions or problems here. |
In all fairness, the original boys who saw it were like 6 or 7 years old. I wouldn't expect them to know what porn is and isn't.
Others were right, and I should've considered this scenario before bringing it to school with me.
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| I'd leave the magazine on your desk so that everyone in the office can see it and have a read while your teaching. Have them find out first hand that it's not porn. |
Noooot gonna happen, lol. That's totally unnecessary. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:51 am Post subject: |
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Was that addressed to me?
Where did I say it was my news source?
Usually you don't come off this belligerently boneheaded in your posts, wow. |
I'm saying that Penthouse is Penthouse and the Wall Street Journal is the Wall Street Journal. Why you'd want to mix them, let alone carry that around with you, is beyond me. These magazines are the thin end of the wedge. Read the pap, watch TV, don't ask questions. That's what they want. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
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Was that addressed to me?
Where did I say it was my news source?
Usually you don't come off this belligerently boneheaded in your posts, wow. |
I'm saying that Penthouse is Penthouse and the Wall Street Journal is the Wall Street Journal. Why you'd want to mix them, let alone carry that around with you, is beyond me. These magazines are the thin end of the wedge. Read the pap, watch TV, don't ask questions. That's what they want. |
You still aren't making any sense whatsoever.
Let me repeat what was in the OP: THE MAGAZINE WAS FREE, SO I TOOK IT. How you got from that that it's my news source is beyond me.
Btw, there is no "pap" in Sintanjin unless you speak Korean, which I don't. This magazine is the only non-book reading material I own that hasn't yet been read.
I appreciate useful comments, criticism, or advice, but abhorrently retarded blather such as what you've spewed is unwelcome and should be kept securely within the confines of your own intestinal trenches, not out corroding an otherwise enjoyable thread. Go crawl back into your hole of righteousness. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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Flamewar anyone?  |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
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Maxim, Details all that dreck rot. Just because it became allright for guys to carry around softcore porn doesn't mean you should, too. You gonna put it out on the coffee table to discuss the latest silicone offerings from the swimsuit world? Perhaps some designer clothing? Maybe they'll interview someone that got kicked off Survivor!
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Picture Perfect
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:26 am Post subject: If it were one these issues I can see how they got confused |
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Picture Perfect
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:29 am Post subject: however this one I'm not so sure.................. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:33 am Post subject: |
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From today's Korea Sports Daily:
I'd say Maxim makes the #6 daily publication in Korea look positively conservative. |
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