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Boodleheimer · Last edited by Boodleheimer on Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:39 am; edited 1 time in total

how are your employers reacting to the Bomb News?

Were you sent home early? Did coworkers freak out?

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

I asked them if it had been confirmed and was met with

"Are you interested about the bomb?!" "Yeah,kinda"

Ok,fine.We'll just keep sitting here in silence then.

I'd like to bomb my co-workers with a radioactive fart.

Anyway,why would they give anyone the rest of the day off.To do what?

Boodleheimer · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject:

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Koreans will probably view a Korean nuke as intended not for Koreans but for non-Koreans.

They could be laid back about things.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

No, as a matter of fact when I was finished teaching my last class after 6th block the helpless newbie English teacher at my middle school asked if I could come along and help with her special listening class - to help with the words she can't understand on the DVD recording and to help keep the students she can't really control paying attention. There's nothing quite like going down to a teacher's desk after class and teaching her how to make a proper listening handout, saying to myself 'now which of us has a master's degree in history and which a master's in English education?'. Rolling Eyes

She's damn lucky she's so hot or I would have lost my patience with her a long time ago. Very Happy

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

What I find funny, ina sinster way, is that I am not the slightest bit concerned that NK has supposedly just tested a nuclear bomb.

Anyone got their suitcase packed?

ilovebdt

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

The teachers at my school didn't find out until the 4:50 pm meeting.

Not that they'd be worried . . . "they're our brothers."

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

No one at my high school knew until after 3:30 when I finished classes and turned on my computer. I told one teacher and she was mildly interested to see where the test took place, but then went on counting cards. No one else said anything.

I think the truer test will come in the next few days, after they've listened to the news and had time to absorb what various leaders say.

I suspect in addition to the fantasies about the glory of a 'Korean bomb', some leaders will explain to them that S Korea is now vulnerable to nuclear blackmail at a time when it has gone out of its way to alienate its major ally. I think people will be explaining that the pressure for Japan to go nuclear has just increased enormously. Undoubtedly, someone will mention the possibility that KJI might sell a bomb to a terrorist and what that could mean for S Korea.

I expect the reaction to be much more complex and divided than it has been up to now.

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

My co-teachers were strangely unbothered They showed a little interest when they discovered it had actually happened, but then went back to their preoccupation with work..

Me: did you see the North has just tested a nuclear bomb?
Co-teacher: Oh really/ oh.
Me: Yeah. its happened.
Co-teacher: so..how was chuseok?
Me: fine. You know the won is losing value now, right?
Co-teacher. Oh. We want to unify with the north, but they have too many economic problems.
Me: yes, but what happens right now, this week and the next is more important. This could get quite serious.
Co-teacher: Did you know my name means " treasure" in korean?
Me: ho-hum...

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

My coworkers weren't interested either. I told my coteacher around 1 pm, and she said "oh," and checked Naver.com. She said "It was successful."

I posted this on another thread, but I just watched No Moo-hyun's press conference on CNN. He said he talked with Japanese PM Abe about "past issues," and he was worried that the Yasukuni shrine, comfort women, and textbooks would hinder progress in the future. While he issued a "stern" warning, he was more concerned with Japan's rearmament than with DPRK's latest adventure.

There's a big perception difference between many Koreans and many westerners. While in the west NK is portrayed as a member of the Axis of Evil, over here the rhetoric is mostly about reunification, and there's little mentioned of NK's military, its human rights abuses, etc.

There's much more activity on foreigner blogs and websites than on Korean sources.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

First I heard of this. I guess that's what happens when you stay home all day and leave the TV off.

I love my Mondays. Not only can I avoid the campus...I can also avaoid crap like this:)

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Won dropped against the dollar. That bites. like getting a pay cut.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Vollrath · Joined: 29 May 2003

how much of a discussion about george bush besides "booshie devil" have you had with the average korean? what do you want to hear them say about kim jong il? just because you can't understand what they are talking about *among themselves* doesn't mean they're not interested. the nuclear test isn't going to change prices at mcdonalds so why do you care so much? watching a bit too much cnn i suspect.