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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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 Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: Holidays + all national holidays |
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| THere are more and more public schools offering only 14 days vacation. WHY?! Imagine if they only gave 2 more weeks (one in the summer, one in the winter). You could still have camps. This extra two weeks is usually sitting around anyway, for most people atleast. It costs absolutely no money. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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This is something I've never understood either. I understand the priority is to get as much money into the country as possible and then hang on to it with both fists so it doesn't leave the country ever again. But granting more vacation time costs them nothing.
I think the average Mr. Kim does not understand 'vacation' anyway. But the bigger problem is that many people here do not grasp just how far away our homes are. I have lost track of the number of people who have asked me before a 3 day weekend if I am going home. I don't even go home when I get a whole week off. It takes me 22 hours to get home (I count the hours spent waiting for planes and lay overs). |
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jaderedux
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Lurking outside Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
This is something I've never understood either. I understand the priority is to get as much money into the country as possible and then hang on to it with both fists so it doesn't leave the country ever again. But granting more vacation time costs them nothing.
I think the average Mr. Kim does not understand 'vacation' anyway. But the bigger problem is that many people here do not grasp just how far away our homes are. I have lost track of the number of people who have asked me before a 3 day weekend if I am going home. I don't even go home when I get a whole week off. It takes me 22 hours to get home (I count the hours spent waiting for planes and lay overs). |
Never a truer word was spoken. Now if I want to visit my friends in Texas not so bad. But Nebrasa...oh please. Dallas is good or Houston but then I have to get a flight to Omaha. Now in Omaha there are some flights to my home town but far and few betwen. So I have to take a shuttle bus that travels between my home town and the "big" airport in Omaha. Should my flight be delayed and get there after 5 I am S.O.L and have to spend the night in a hotel and get the first Shuttle in the A.M. And by the way the Shuttle ride is about 2 hours. Omaha to Grand Island.
2 to 3 days just in travel time.
I wish to hell they could understand that the U.S. isn't the size of Rhode Island.
Rant completed.
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I have to agree. Getting to my home town takes about 18 hours. If I want to see my Grandparents, it's a 13 hour bus ride. Koreans should wake up and discover that we are a long way from home and our countries aren't little blips on the globe. Heck they give people here three days off for Chuseok just because they realize the travelling time involved. |
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