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yoda
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
Location: Incheon, South Korea
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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: Another PhD Dusts off resume and heads to Korea. |
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OK. He may not be heading to Korea, but he really has to find SOME place where they are not going to check his references. He got caught big time.
It's a charming story about a plagiarist with balls as big as globes. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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What a t u r d. It reminds me of thet film D.O.A with Dennis Quaid, remember that?
Yeah..expect that idiot to head for a new teaching life in Vietnam or somewhere similar. How foolish can you be?? You have a pHD and a great job yet you throw it away by plagiarising a novel in blatantly obvious fashion.
This is what I find objectionable..the expat community is often made up of crooks or otherwise losers that have committed some stupidity in the west (although many are no, I admit). I could never teach in vietnam or cambodia for example, its simply overloaded with the dross of westen society. |
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rok_the-boat
Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| If he did come to Korea, he'd be right at home amongst some of the students I have seen. |
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deessell
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
| I could never teach in vietnam or cambodia for example, its simply overloaded with the dross of westen society. |
I disagree with this statement. As someone who has worked in Vietnam for two years as a teacher, the calibre of teachers is MUCH higher than here. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| deessell wrote: |
| rapier wrote: |
| I could never teach in vietnam or cambodia for example, its simply overloaded with the dross of westen society. |
I disagree with this statement. As someone who has worked in Vietnam for two years as a teacher, the calibre of teachers is MUCH higher than here. |
Would you have disagreed if he'd only mentioned Cambodia?
(I realise this is getting way off-topic, speculating on where the plagarist in the OP's article might go... )
Deessell, did you get a sense as to what accounts for the difference in teachers you mentioned? Why do you think Vietnam & Korea each draw the type of teachers they do? For instance, what attracts high-calibre teachers to Vietnam, where I would assume wages are low? Why wouldn't they come and teach here (as you're doing) for more?
Sure, life isn't always and only about money, but are the "negatives" of Korea enough to drive good teachers to Vietnam to such an extent as you've seen? Or might it have nothing to do with Korea -- just a lot of teachers know about Vietnam (somehow) and the better ones are attracted to it for non-monetary reasons (maybe they just like culture, find the people friendly, etc.)? |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:15 am Post subject: |
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Vietnam has a higher cultural cachet than South korea. It probably looks better on a CV than Korea. Not only can you say I worked in the third world helping poor people for poor financial reward, but when you get back to the US you tell everyone" Oh yeah I survived 'Nam".
I understand guys wanting to work there for all the easy women but why would western women work there?
Easy Vietnamese men?haha |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
| This is what I find objectionable..the expat community is often made up of crooks or otherwise losers that have committed some stupidity in the west (although many are no, I admit). I could never teach in vietnam or cambodia for example, its simply overloaded with the dross of westen society. |
How do these countries differ from Korea in this regard? |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
| rapier wrote: |
| This is what I find objectionable..the expat community is often made up of crooks or otherwise losers that have committed some stupidity in the west (although many are no, I admit). I could never teach in vietnam or cambodia for example, its simply overloaded with the dross of westen society. |
How do these countries differ from Korea in this regard? |
In korea most foreigners have a degree of intelligence, they have mostly got degrees at least. Still an inordinate number of pseudo-intellectuals and self-absorbed tw*ts here but in Cambodia/Vietnam you're looking at a high % of criminals and dirty old men. |
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