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lastat06513 · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject:

I turned in the form~ though I'm strongly against it because it empowers Koreans to be more bold when dealing with foreigners. The more people allow this sort of thing to continue, the more Koreans will take advantage of the situations and cause more pain to us.

As people have said; this is their land, not ours.

And it is because of this believe, they feel that they can push us around as much as they want, anytime they want, knowing we will not do anything about it because it is under the guise of law.
What most of us don't know is that Koreans themselves don't follow their own laws and fight them any chance they get and sometimes, they win. Why can't we do the same? Most of us grew up thinking that as citizens, we are obliged to follow the laws of our homelands. But for some of us expatriates, KOREA IS OUR HOME.
And we deserve the benefit of the doubt by calling on the government when we see something that hurts OUR interests.

So there are a few bad apples in the ESL industry- there are a few apples in ALL industry. It is up to the companies to weed them out and to bring in more qualified people.

The more the government does something like this, the more harm it would cause us.

I am leaving soon, it hurts me to do so because I have made Korea my home for the last 10 years or so. I have tried to make Korea my home, but with all that is going on, I prefer to go to greener pastures- or should I say, deserts Wink

nshadow · Joined: 24 Oct 2003

This is a joke. One of my friends works at the Registers office in Northern California. He got a call from Korea to verifiy some Information about a person in Korea.

He kindly explained to him the procedures to do this. A written auth. and signed auth from from the person who attended their university. The person on the other line informed him, that he had to give them this information or he would be reported to the U.S. Department of Education. He just gave his name and hung up the phone.

gajackson1 · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject:

I popped this into its own thread; figured a cross-reference here wouldn't hurt . . .

Heya ~

I had just gotten these in work at my place (Bun-dang hakwon, near Mi-geum Station) yesterday. Followed up & read the 2 threads; thought people might prefer to cut through all the other stuff & see exactly the 2 letters.

So, I scanned them (nice to occasionally use the thing!), and put them up on my website. Here is the link; it shoooulldd take you directly there, and I would hope you don't have to sign in:

http://groups.msn.com/GAJacksonsTheMeaningofLife/confirmationofdegree.msnw?Page=1

if you do have to sign in, try here:

http://groups.msn.com/GAJacksonsTheMeaningofLife

If someone is feeling industrious, feel free to take the images & slap them directly into this thread.

Regards,

G.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III