Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Neil]

hahah, the ones mentioned by people are so true and I fall into a couple of the catagories myself alas...

how about,

The complusive liar:

He (and it's always a he) has a ivy league education, speaks a million languages, gave up a sucessful career (usually computer programmer) to come to Korea, makes shedloads of money from investments back home and of course comes from an impovised working class background. Just checking out Korea for a year....several years later he's still difting from hagwon to hagwon (funnily despite their impressive education never seem to be in uni/company jobs) checking it out. The wealth they are making back home rarely extends to buying a decent suit or getting a round in.

Mr/Miss Korea:

Only meet these types at work as they are loath to spend time with other foreigners unless they have to. Will only eat Korean food, have Korean friends, always bang on about playing gostop or anything that'll impress K-co workers, to be fair they are a wealth of knowledge about stuff like traditional Korean art/clothing/dances ect. But when it comes to studying something about Korea that requires a bit of effort (ie language) they are often found wanting.

The 'Koreans should listen to me more'

A sociologly BA from some glorified scout hut that calls itself a university and all of a sudden this fella knows exactly how to improve Korean society.....sunshine policy/english education/relations with Japan or USA you name it.....they are fecking it up, if only the politicians would listen to this guy. Korea would be transformed into a utopia overnight.

The patriot

USA/Canada/Ireland/England/NZ ect......is the best country in the world, with the best history, best food, most cosmospolitian society....all other countries suck. Ironically this is the person most likely to become a lifer and never return to the land of milk and honey from where they came.
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[crazylemongirl]

I forgot

Dr Luther King.
Ater years of upper-middle class surburban opression Dr King comes to Korea and upon feeling the wrath of some adjeoshi's stare when he dates a local girl, he then decides to become a campaigner for the right to grope his girlfriends boobs in public.

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[Satori]

ESL teachers do seem to have a lot of self loathing, which they project out onto other ESL teachers. You're only a loser if you feel you're a loser. And you can tell the people who feel they're losers very easily. They're the ones calling everyone else a loser...

[kermo]

[stumptown]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[eamo]

[periwinkle]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Canadian girls that only date GIs teacher: Is invariably from a town with big rigs and mullets, likes Garth Brooks and James Taylor, has completely given up on dating ESL teachers and can always get you 20 pound turkeys off base at Christmas. Her kitchen is full of 40 oz. bottles of Smirnoff, Cuervo tequila and cheese and butter in English only packaging and she is obsessed with getting signed on post. Is convinced that one of the 18 year old soldiers from Tennessee is going to marry her, if only he didnt have two kids and a 300 pound wife already. Is usually carrying some cubic zirconia rock around with her from some helicopter mechanic. May have his name tattoed on her butt. Invariably disappears on Friday afternoons then is spotted on the dancefloor at the loft around 4 am on Saturday. Is so tired on Monday mornings that she passes out during her kindergarten class. Actually likes kids but thinks that its sad that they dont appreciate what these brave Americans have done for them. Cannot name the President of Korea, possibly not even the President of the US. Can say babo, saun sang nim and well thats it. Invariably calls home on Sundays for two or three hours, has a stack of phone cards three feet high. Is obsessed with her weight, but well when you compare her to the GI Janes in their size 44 Wrangler jeans she aint that bad.

[eamo]

[flotsam]

[kermo]

[JongnoGuru]

[VanIslander]