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The average lifespan of a Korean ESLer

 
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When will they kick the bucket?
<50
17%
 17%  [ 3 ]
50-59
5%
 5%  [ 1 ]
60-69
11%
 11%  [ 2 ]
70-79
23%
 23%  [ 4 ]
80-99
17%
 17%  [ 3 ]
I'll be teaching English to extraterrestials (and steal their women)
23%
 23%  [ 4 ]
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laogaiguk



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea

PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:28 pm    Post subject: The average lifespan of a Korean ESLer Reply with quote

What do you think? There are many threads that I just don't understand, like the "Hi" thread, "Waeguk" thread, etc etc. While what the people say is usually pretty true and it probably should be changed, why does it bother people here so much? These are such small things in the grand scheme of things, and I seriously wonder how they live their lives. I am putting money some of the complainers on this board will probably die of heart attacks at 60 (I would say 50, but by then medical science will probably be better Wink ).
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ilovebdt



Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I intend to live to 100.
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laogaiguk



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea

PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ilovebdt wrote:
Well I intend to live to 100.


I like your avatar Smile
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SPINOZA



Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul

PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know what OP means. For some reason many expats on here ought to achieve international recognition for their startling ability to get irritated by the most mundane of crap. Laughing

The intro to Swiss James's site also says:

"Hello!
This site, lostseouls.com was (a long, long time ago) supposed to be a place where people could come and exchange information about living, working, teaching, drinking, eating and more drinking in Korea. My plan was to sit back and relax whilst people told me about their favourite places to visit, restaurants, bars, cafes etc. around Seoul- and presumably be propositioned numerous times by people who saw how exceedingly hot I am. Unfortunately there is already a massive site where you can find out pretty much anything about Korea (even if it is full of incredibly miserable people). "

So one isn't alone in thinking so.

One possible suggestion is suicide 'before their time', OP. However, commiting suicide takes balls. My hero has always been Kurt Cobain for having the balls to shoot himself. I wonder whether some of the expats in question have the courage to go out like a true hero in style. Probably not.
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Hobophobic



Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting

PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm...

Does it really take alot of balls to shoot yourself?...I always presumed it was rather cowardly - say the 'easy way out'....guess I can see it from 2 sides...I certainly wouldn't be pulling a trigger with my big toe on a shotgun though...I think drowning is supposed to be peaceful...as long as it is not the Han....might be okay....

Besides wasn't it El Duce from the Mentors who said Courtney offered him money to kill Kurt....and members of Sonic Youth still yet believing he was murdered?...and another close friend and musician (Meat Puppets?)stated most of Courntney's album 'Live thru This' was all stuff he'd seen written down by Kurt over the years....

...or maybe he truly had wanted to join the "27 Club"?...

I would tend to believe if I stayed at my current work and pace I will be completely and utterly whacked and burnt out by the time I am 50 - when my prostate will likely have blown up to the size of grapefruit....ahh!

...so, perhaps you're right..maybe it does take alot balls to off one's self....
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Homer
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are many who seem to have mastered the art of getting aggravated by the mundane. They then proceed to scratch at the tiny scab they find until it festers into a full blown infection. Strange really...

OP, you just might be on to something here about lifespan! Laughing
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numazawa



Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard

PostPosted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reading Dave's is enough by itself to take a couple of years off your life, but then it also causes perceived time to slow down and thus this drag-effect more or less evens out the relative slippage in longevity.
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Barking Mad Lord Snapcase



Joined: 04 Nov 2003

PostPosted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SPINOZA wrote:
One possible suggestion is suicide 'before their time', OP. However, commiting suicide takes balls. My hero has always been Kurt Cobain for having the balls to shoot himself. I wonder whether some of the expats in question have the courage to go out like a true hero in style. Probably not.


I'm certain that many on this board would "bravely" take their own lives just to earn your hallowed respect, oh Great God of Cookie Monster Hairballs.
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noguri



Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Location: korea

PostPosted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:55 am    Post subject: my hero Reply with quote

SPINOZA wrote:
...commiting suicide takes balls. My hero has always been Kurt Cobain for having the balls to shoot himself.


did cobain shoot himself? I didn't realize that, I always thought he was a junkie who mainlined something that offed him.

But anyhow my hero has always been Lou Reed because he quit heroin and continues to live satisfied with himself...even though back in the day he used to mainline onstage while he was singing "Heroin."

In another song Reed declared:

I do believe
If you don't like things, you leave
for someplace you've never gone before.

Isn't that why people go to Korea in the first place?
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coffeeman



Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll say over 80 because if you eat kimchi everyday, you'll defend yourself against cancer and other nasty parasites. If you eat dogsoup, you will never need viagra.
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bellum99



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: don't need to know

PostPosted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it doesn't take much courage to kill yourself. In fact it is the coward way to solve problems. If you don't kill yourself saving someone else in a heroic fashion then it is just a waste. Kurt wasn't a hero...just another junkie who cooked himself to an early grave.
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billybrobby



Joined: 09 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bellum99 wrote:
I think it doesn't take much courage to kill yourself. In fact it is the coward way to solve problems. If you don't kill yourself saving someone else in a heroic fashion then it is just a waste. Kurt wasn't a hero...just another junkie who cooked himself to an early grave.


nah, you gotta admit it takes huge balls to purposely kill yourself. especially with a shotgun or something like that. and yet it's simultaneously very cowardly. it's one of those paradoxes, but you can't pretend like it's only one or the other.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't buy the argument that suicide is a cowardly act. I think that 'argument' is made from a hoity-toity moralistic viewpoint, somehow connected to the idea that suicide is a sin, which I don't buy either. People who believe in reincarnation have a different view of it, too. Obviously.
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