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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:47 am Post subject: Apology for High Salaries of Drivers and Guards |
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BOK Says Sorry for High Salaries
The Bank of Korea (BOK) yesterday apologized for giving high salaries to drivers and guards stationed at its headquarters and promised to streamline its organization.... The auditor said the average annual wage of the banks' 218 guards and 88 drivers was 63 million won and 67 million won, respectively, and that one driver received up to 91 million won.
By Na Jeong-ju, Korea Times (October 2, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200610/kt2006100218483711900.htm
In Korea, aren't teachers respected and paid more than drivers?
Do you even earn close to the wage of the BOK drivers?
Consider the following:
 Teachers in Korea have guaranteed tenure until they reach the mandatory retirement age.
Annual teacher salaries, public schools (with minimum training) (US$)
Starting Salary: 25,177
After 15 years: 42,845
Top of Scale: 68,581
Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers
Country Note: Korea
John Coolahan, Paulo Santiago, Rowena Phair and Akira Ninomiya
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Directorate for Education, Education and Training Policy Division
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/26/49/31690991.pdf
More Education Means More Pay
by Kim Sung-jin, Korea Times (December 12, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200512/kt2005121217335210230.htm
all teachers were given the full bonus....
Union Blamed for 'Leave' Plan by Kim Rahn, The Korea Times (August 31, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200608/kt2006083118184253460.htm
College Tutors Can Earn 60,000-100,000 Won Per Hour
by Yi-Young Cho and Soo-Jung Shin, Donga.com (August 03, 2004)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2004080497078
Foreigners Experience Difficulties in Living in Korea
by Jae-Dong Yu and Soo-Jung Shin, Donga.com (July 4, 2004)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2004070522448
"No chair for foreigner" GM Daewoo head told
by Kim Tae-jin and Lee Ho-jeong, JoongAng Daily (January 18, 2005)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200501/17/200501172228551609900090509051.html
For Housing Rentals, Foreigners Easy Victims
by Byun Duk-kun, Korea Times (August 28, 2003)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200308/kt2003082818233111970.htm
27% of Economy Goes Underground
by Kim Sung-jin, Korea Times (February 26, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200602/kt2006022617591810230.htm |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: Re: Apology for High Salaries of Drivers and Guards |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
BOK Says Sorry for High Salaries
The Bank of Korea (BOK) yesterday apologized for giving high salaries to drivers and guards stationed at its headquarters and promised to streamline its organization.... The auditor said the average annual wage of the banks' 218 guards and 88 drivers was 63 million won and 67 million won, respectively, and that one driver received up to 91 million won.
By Na Jeong-ju, Korea Times (October 2, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200610/kt2006100218483711900.htm
In Korea, aren't teachers respected and paid more than drivers?
Do you even earn close to the wage of the BOK drivers?
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Any nation this crazy, I say you should get out of, RR. Clearly, they don't value you in the way you value yourself and you should consider selling your considerable skills in markets ready and willing to pay more.
What's keeping you here, anyway? |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:19 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, Korea really needs to catch up with the western world in terms of paying teachers a decent salary.  |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: Re: Apology for High Salaries of Drivers and Guards |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
BOK Says Sorry for High Salaries
The Bank of Korea (BOK) yesterday apologized for giving high salaries to drivers and guards stationed at its headquarters and promised to streamline its organization.... The auditor said the average annual wage of the banks' 218 guards and 88 drivers was 63 million won and 67 million won, respectively, and that one driver received up to 91 million won.
By Na Jeong-ju, Korea Times (October 2, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200610/kt2006100218483711900.htm
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A nice salary indeed. But would you really want bank guards who weren't fairly well compensated? |
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Homer
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| What's keeping you here, anyway? |
Excellent question RR...so what is it?
You do seem to have reached an impass here. You are clearly thinking that you are worth more than you are making here. You clearly think you have the experience, skills and credentials to earn more. Now, taking all of this into account why not move on to a place where those skills, credentials and that experience would translate into a salary that is on par with what you think you are worth?
I mean, go to a western country and become a university professor. You will then be on the pay scale you covet so badly and could possibly earn tenure after a few years of hard research and publications.
You could also teach in a High School as a permanent teacher. You will then get tenure and union representation.
Why stay here at all? You are hammering the same points about pay over and over. I see no reason for you to smash your head against the wall any longer. Time to pack up and move to a place where you can get what you feel you are worth. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:51 am Post subject: yes |
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| What are they apologizing for exactly? They aren't allowed to pay as they wish? |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: |
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I was thinking about Real Reality the other day.
Can you imagine the grudge that you would need to have to want to post negative articles about something on some message board for *years* on end? It's pathological.
I wonder what it would be like if RR dated somebody and then broke up with them. Would it be full blown stalking? I bet it would be passive-aggresive, like the way he posts articles with almost no commentary and yet they are almost always negative. I think if RR loved a girl and she dumped him he would do something like mailing her a blank piece of paper everyday for 10 years. Something creepy like that.
Honestly, the more I think about RR, the more I think that he is one of the most thoroughly demented people I've ever come in contact with, however indirectly. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
I was thinking about Real Reality the other day.
Can you imagine the grudge that you would need to have to want to post negative articles about something on some message board for *years* on end? It's pathological.
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He/she used to be normal. Still trying to track down the point of no return though. Anyone?
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?p=104060&highlight=#104060
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Be safe. Have a good time. Smile
Is it Chusok or Chuseok?
Chewsock?
Choosauck?
Chusawk? |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, if you go back and read his/her (why do I always assume posters are male?) first posts, it's very interesting because they are normal, but then slowly the tethers to reality snap one by one... |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: |
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How soon you forget?
Miniskirts Get Even Shorter
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=55832
Miniskirts Get Even Shorter
Miniskirts which are so short that passersby feel embarrassed just to see them are hitting the street in Korea in the spring season of 2006. They are not just mini. They are super-miniskirts with their total length less than 25 cm. Such super-miniskirts, which got some 10 cm shorter from 10 years ago, are selling like hot cakes, some 2,500-3,000 units on average a day in G-Market, a local online shopping mall, and Auction, the trading site.
Chosun Ilbo (April 21, 2006)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200604/200604210006.html
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:10 am Post subject: Re: Apology for High Salaries of Drivers and Guards |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Real Reality wrote: |
BOK Says Sorry for High Salaries
The Bank of Korea (BOK) yesterday apologized for giving high salaries to drivers and guards stationed at its headquarters and promised to streamline its organization.... The auditor said the average annual wage of the banks' 218 guards and 88 drivers was 63 million won and 67 million won, respectively, and that one driver received up to 91 million won.
By Na Jeong-ju, Korea Times (October 2, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200610/kt2006100218483711900.htm
In Korea, aren't teachers respected and paid more than drivers?
Do you even earn close to the wage of the BOK drivers?
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Any nation this crazy, I say you should get out of, RR. Clearly, they don't value you in the way you value yourself and you should consider selling your considerable skills in markets ready and willing to pay more.
What's keeping you here, anyway? |
RR, answer the question. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:32 am Post subject: |
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Why are the biggest whiners posters from 2003? (and had more contracts in Korea than we've had hot dinners)
Some people are just too stupid to see the paradox.
Homer rips RR apart on an almost daily basis and the sad troll still comes back for more. Story of his life, huh?
Real Reality - do us all (and not least yourself) a massive favour and **** off home. Put yourself out of your misery. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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When posters start wondering what he's like, remember that RR isn't just RR. He's someone's sock -- that is not in dispute -- and I believe the other identity posts and converses as normally as the rest of us. At least to the extent that nobody has yet guessed who RR's other identity is based on similar writing styles or a telltale penchant for whining. My hunch is that one of the primary reasons he writes so sparingly when posting as RR is that he's (I'll assume it's a 'he') being careful not to give himself away.
| Ilsanman wrote: |
| What are they apologizing for exactly? They aren't allowed to pay as they wish? |
Apologising for getting caught, for being found out, being exposed, for riling up the masses. The Korean street is prone to, among other things, radical egalitarianism. Korean media knows it, panders to it, and fosters it. Personally, I enjoy it. And I actually kind of miss the days when Korean TV & newspapers would hector Koreans to moderate their wage demands & personal spending habits. The annual "Have a crappy (frugal, no imported booze) Chuseok!" editorials, and chastising people for going on foreign holidays or buying cars before they'd first bought a home. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject: Re: Apology for High Salaries of Drivers and Guards |
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| DCJames wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Real Reality wrote: |
BOK Says Sorry for High Salaries
The Bank of Korea (BOK) yesterday apologized for giving high salaries to drivers and guards stationed at its headquarters and promised to streamline its organization.... The auditor said the average annual wage of the banks' 218 guards and 88 drivers was 63 million won and 67 million won, respectively, and that one driver received up to 91 million won.
By Na Jeong-ju, Korea Times (October 2, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200610/kt2006100218483711900.htm
In Korea, aren't teachers respected and paid more than drivers?
Do you even earn close to the wage of the BOK drivers?
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Any nation this crazy, I say you should get out of, RR. Clearly, they don't value you in the way you value yourself and you should consider selling your considerable skills in markets ready and willing to pay more.
What's keeping you here, anyway? |
RR, answer the question. |
I think he just answered it above. He can't get laid back in Canada. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| When posters start wondering what he's like, remember that RR isn't just RR. He's someone's sock -- that is not in dispute -- and I believe the other identity posts and converses as normally as the rest of us. At least to the extent that nobody has yet guessed who RR's other identity is based on similar writing styles or a telltale penchant for whining. My hunch is that one of the primary reasons he writes so sparingly when posting as RR is that he's (I'll assume it's a 'he') being careful not to give himself away. |
I suspect he's a sock for a Japanese ESL recruiter. |
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