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| What is the #1 Reason you are in Korea teaching English? |
| Dating Korean Women |
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7% |
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| Dating Korean Men |
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1% |
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| The Money |
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22% |
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| Cultural Experience |
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16% |
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| Really Easy Job |
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3% |
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| Love teaching ESL |
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7% |
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| Better than alternative back home |
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21% |
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| Other |
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18% |
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mrt
Joined: 11 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:46 am Post subject: Why are you in Korea? |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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Scary as it might be to some people  , I actually like teaching elementary or kindergarten kids. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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At first I wanted a cultural experience before going to law school.
Now, my main reason is to learn the language. If I could learn it better someplace else, I would be there. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| Free plane ticket. Stepping stone back to Asia when I had spent my last dollar back home. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| What about *married* to korean man/woman? |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:25 am Post subject: |
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I like that nobody really knows who I am here. Anonymity, after all. great.
I can walk down the street without being recognised. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:04 am Post subject: |
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cuz this is where I have ended up!!
Ill move when the time is right! |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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I first came here almost twenty-two years ago, to teach for a year. I got married, moved back to the States with my wife, and then taught college there for a few years. In '89, I moved back to Korea with my wife and son, and stayed. At that time, my wife said it was only for a year--that's been a really looonnng year!
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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I like that nobody really knows who I am here. Anonymity, after all. great.
I can walk down the street without being recognised. |
There isn't a bounty on your head, is there I could use some extra cash. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| In a word: fun. It's a kick to live here. Lately I could do with a modification in the temperature though. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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It's holistic for me and there's no one single number one reason. A combination of better than alternative back home, having personal problems back home and needing to get away, good money here, relatively easy job etc brought me here.
Since I arrived other factors have come into play - wanting to date Korean women, fun job, like learning a bit of lingo, like the Koreans a lot, like the money, like the lifestyle. I've spent like an idiot and still paid off my bank debts back home. Assuming these conditions remain, I'd like to stay here for a good few years. |
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Dawn
Joined: 06 Mar 2004
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(1) I'm a certified teacher.
(2) Teaching back home entails supporting the Bush regime or going to jail for income tax evasion.
(3) Neither of the above options appeals to me.
(4) Teaching in Korea provides me with the same income, sans U.S. taxes and the idiocies of No Child Left Behind. |
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Bee Positive
Joined: 27 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| Dawn wrote: |
(1) I'm a certified teacher.
(2) Teaching back home entails supporting the Bush regime or going to jail for income tax evasion.
(3) Neither of the above options appeals to me.
(4) Teaching in Korea provides me with the same income, sans U.S. taxes and the idiocies of No Child Left Behind. |
Re #2: My advice is just don't file.
I used to file with the IRS early each year. More often than not, I got a rebate. In other words, I was making so little money that the IRS actually owed ME.
Now, I'm with you. The United States has transformed itself into a mass-murdering lunatic with blood on its hands, and gore in its gaping, toothy maw.
How many are dead in Iraq now?
How many are dead in Afghanistan?
Let's pause and wonder why. Can any rational, thoughtful, educated, sober person produce a sufficiently good reason for the destruction of thousands of human lives?
And forget morality, folks. Forget God. Forget all the superstitious, atavistic BS for a moment, if you will, for argument's sake.
From a strictly MATERIALIST point of view, how do you justify destroying so much for . . . ? Repeat, for . . . ? For . . . ?
WHAT, I beg any and everyone, has the Iraq war accomplished?
What AT ALL?
I will never again voluntarily give a dollar to support the destruction of another hapless third world country.
It's so completely and utterly a matter of principle that I'd honestly, hand-on-bible, walk right into a Stateside jail cell TOMORROW MORNING, if given no other option, rather than give another dime to the psychopathic, mass-murdering US gov.
So far, thank goodness, I seem to be off the radar here in Korea. No IRS agents banging at my door. CIA/NSA et al. have me tapped and on file, but heh, heh, heh, HEH, HEH--so what?
Freedom from tyranny forever!
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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Because I'm a loser baby,
so please come and kill me |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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ho ho ho Merry Christmas
that's for effect-I've never had a supersized meal, because those are for fat losers
Have a nice day |
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