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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: How many of your kids have seen someone killed? |
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| If I think about it, one student saw the aftermath of a jumper. Some guy took a plunge off his balcony onto a parked car below. Another student saw a kid fall off his bike while crossing a bridge, tumble off the bridge, and get swept away by the water. Another kid saw some girl go after a coin she dropped on the road and a bus whipped around the corner and ran her over. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I guess now I'll have to ask them about it ... except in one class where a girl's father died in a car accident back in December. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Turn off the TV etc and the instances of seeing people being killed at least on a daily basis will be nil. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Last year a guy jumped off one of the high rise apartments next to my school with 3 or 4 classes out for gym at the time. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| Last year a guy jumped off one of the high rise apartments next to my school with 3 or 4 classes out for gym at the time. |
I totally look up when I walk near one of those high rise apartments. |
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cazador83
Joined: 28 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| well i'm new to korea...but is suicide really common here or something? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| jmoore2001 wrote: |
| well i'm new to korea...but is suicide really common here or something? |
I think the Finns still have most of the developed world beat for suicide but I saw on a stats page once that Korea has the highest death rate in the world for people "falling from buildings". This would imply people in Korea tend to off themselves jumping off of balconies. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| jmoore2001 wrote: |
| well i'm new to korea...but is suicide really common here or something? |
The number of suicides rose to an all-time high of 12,000 last year as more people took their own lives amid the prolonged economic hardship. Suicide became the fourth largest cause of death as 25.2 out of 100,000 people committed suicide, up five notches from ninth place 10 years ago, the National Statistical Office (NSO) reported Wednesday.
Suicides Hit Record High
By Lee Hyo-sik, Korea Times (September 28, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200509/kt2005092817232510230.htm
According to the National Statistical Office, 10.5 people per 100,000 committed suicide in 1994, but the number more than doubled to 25.2 in 2004. Currently, an attempted suicide takes place on average every five minutes and "successful" ones every 45 minutes -- over 10,000 people kill themselves in Korea every year.
[MENTAL HEALTH] When the winter blues last all year round...
by Hong Hye-gul, JoongAng Daily (October 29, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200510/28/200510282120565479900091009101.html
Elderly suicide rate snowballs in Korea
by Special Reporting Team, JoongAng Daily (May 18, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200505/17/200505172238128739900092309231.html
Suicides in Han River increasing, police say
by Bae No-pil, JoongAng Daily (May 23, 2004)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200405/23/200405232335541139900090409041.html |
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Mills
Joined: 07 Jan 2006
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: How many of your kids have seen someone killed? |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
How many of your kids have seen someone killed?
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How did you let this come up as a topic of discussion in your class?
Okay class, today we will be discussing Irregular Verbs.
Now what is the simple past tense of "blow", as in to "blow your brains out"?
Would you say, "I once saw a guy who blowed his brains out."?
No... you would say, "I once saw a guy who blew his brains out."
Past participle? "His brains were blown out."
Very good. What about dive, as in to dive off the balcony of your high rise apartment?
Dove, right? The man dove to his death... |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: |
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The morning of a big test day as 2000 students were filing into school,
a high school senior jumped from the roof of the 5-story building. He died.
Staff kind of dismissed the incident telling us, "He was unstable." DUH |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:04 am Post subject: Re: How many of your kids have seen someone killed? |
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| Mills wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
How many of your kids have seen someone killed?
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How did you let this come up as a topic of discussion in your class?
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My kids are obsessed with killing and death. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:14 am Post subject: |
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I've seen several people killed.
Not in Korea, though. |
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Mills
Joined: 07 Jan 2006
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
I've seen several people killed.
Not in Korea, though. |
Whoa... way to suck the energy out of a conversation. |
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