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margaret
Joined: 14 Oct 2003
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My boss told me when I came in this morning that she was sorry but the "holiday" on the 9th was cancelled. She apparently didn't know why. I don't know if the whole protest was cancelled, if the local hogwan owners opted out, or what.
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think it will be gloom and doom. The Korean government can't change things overnight , but niether can any other country. All I am saying is if these things do go into effect, it could really hurt the economy, the people and even us foriegners. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:42 am Post subject: |
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My boss told me when I came in this morning that she was sorry but the "holiday" on the 9th was cancelled. She apparently didn't know why. I don't know if the whole protest was cancelled, if the local hogwan owners opted out, or what.
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wouldn't be surprised.
My boss has told us on TWO seperate occasions that we'd be making the trip up to seoul. Once, around nov. 15th and a week or two ago. I hadn't heard about this thursday yet....we'll see if i do in the end.
Seems to me that this protest is a GREAT metaphor for the hagwon industry non? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| This might be a pre-election tactic by the ruling party to appear pro-education because the president never went to university and told kids he used to get in trouble all the time while in school. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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hm... my post didn't make it up.
my WJN is trying to force me to go to that...i live near busan. I told her i was willing to go with all of the ipshee teachers up to seoul but i would NOT set foot in that protest. Me thinks there will be fireworks (AND i have a gig in masan on saturday so no classes that day for me....... rough).
i don't think she quite GETS the idea of not being able to force people to go to a political rally.
what makes me laugh is, if the government INCREASED the taxes and closed down hagwons, students could SAVE that money; increase DRAMATICALLY the number of teachers and reduce class sizes. I mean, if parents are THROWING away two-eight hundreds grand a month on classes, why not give it to the government and make the education system itself better?
oh wait! I know, because having kids unsupervised from 4 o'clock until 11 at night will pretty much triple the crime rate.
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Apart from the fact that it is probably illegal for you to attend such a protest, such protests can sometimes get out of hand. |
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