Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Boodleheimer]

my students drag around blankets. (we're up in the mountains and it's cold already.) my office is heated, which is nice. i warm up when i teach, so it's not a massive problem for me, but what about the students? if the parents are so worried about their kids' education, why aren't they worried about their health??

[Yu_Bum_suk]

They'll probably start dragging in big, stinky gas heaters next month. Part of my middle school building doesn't have central heating and that's what they do there - put a big heater in the middle of the classroom. As if my school didn't feel enough like the 1950s already...

[xtchr]

... and they'll get the room so hot and stuffy it's disgusting, then a teacher will open ALL the windows WIDE OPEN to let in fresh air, then the students will be 'colduh', so all the windows get shut, and so the cooking/freezing process begins again, and will be repeated every day throughout winter...

[ajgeddes]

[kat2]

..and then they wonder why they get a cold.

One of hte teacher's at my school said that if the temperature is "around 0 degrees" then they will turn on the heat in the classrooms. I went out the next day and bought yarn to knit a nice wrap for winter!

[Boodleheimer]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Don't go into full-scale heart failure, but have you checked the bathrooms at your school?

There is NO heat whatsoever in any of them and they won't be getting any kerosene space heater. At least in the classroom you are covered up. Think how cold it will be when you drop your drawers to do your business and have to hurry before frostbite sets in and important body parts start falling off or freezing solid.

[Boodleheimer]

[coolsage]

When the temperature dips, you will discover that Korea is, in many ways, still a third-world country.

[coulter]

They don't usually turn them on until December 1st, when they are legally obligated to do it.

[JeJuJitsu]

Yep, no heat on--windows and doors wide open. Brand new school, constructed this year.