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[igotthisguitar]

>. Ummmmmm ... well, at least that is if you're an English language instructor living in Korea

Yep, although they'll only rarely come right out & tell us this, it's apparently what most Koreans secretly think about westerners who come to help their country improve its English.

Remember kids, if you don't have a nice house in the west or any a$$ets to speak of ... you're nothing.

Let's make conversation !!!

[Gopher]

Precisely.

People are trying to delude themselves that this experience is valuable and career-enhancing.

Unless you work for a university or high school, and perhaps even then still, we are merely the ninteenth-century immigrant Chinese railroad workers, the early twentieth-century West Virginia coal miners, or the modern day California fruit pickers of today's Korea.

It's not merely the lack of respect, the allegations that we are drug-dealing child porn peddlers, but also the casual way they mistreat us and take advantage of us as employees.

Luckily, I'm going to be able to conceal this experience from my c.v. when I get back, just pretend I was never here.

[inkoreaforgood]

[Gopher]

Yeah, I'm way off base.

Go back to sleep.

[rapier]

-hence the lack of enthusiasm they display for learning English. I mean, how can you get all excited about conversing with a loser?

koreans are among the most blatantly materialistic people I've ever known. they're into material wealth, full stop. If your life is not about accumulating assets, you may as well not exist.

Emelda marcos and Anna nicole Smith have nothing on this pool of predators.

[Gopher]

Maybe Ms. Marcos does have more shoes, at least...

[chronicpride]

If there's ever been a thread of posters who have feelings of low self-worth and have opted to project those feelings into the unknown thoughts of a helluva lot of people, this thread wins hand down.

[Euroboy]

why is it that if any one on this board expresses a negative opinion about korea or koreans, there is always a small number of rabid & quite nasty tossers ready to lay into them?

thankfully i no longer live in korea, and i just come on here every now and again to see what's happening.
i admit there are one of two things i do miss about the place (galbi mainly!!)- i did spend 2 years there with my wife by the way......

but in my whole time in seoul & ulsan i never once met an english teacher from any continent, or an expat for that matter (coz there are a few), who genuinely liked the place or the people.
even the geeks with their very first real life girlfriend - didn't have much of a positive viewpoint!

basically if you take away the wage, the free flights & accommodation, and if you need them, the korean women - what is there to stay in korea for??

please discuss......

ps i always write in lower case...so spare me!

[Corporal]

[jajdude]

I'm thinking perhaps I will just say I was in prison for years. I hear some places hire ex-cons.

[Gopher]

[chronicpride]

[TheUrbanMyth]

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