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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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Koreans shouldnt try to make Guatemalians into koreans!
if they want koreans then open your factoring here!!
they are from guatemalia! I dont see why they should have to change!
I mean its korean coming to their country! so korea should adapt to their work ethics! still be on time! but thats a no brainer! but trying to make them work like koreans! well! hey buddy!! when you pay peanuts you get monkeys!!!
what they expect HECTOR to stay 12 hours for 4 dollars a day and bow to his superiors and act all korean???
give me a break!!! korean companies are already getting a great deal!
man they still not satisfied! DAMN!! |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:20 am Post subject: |
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^Drunk already, eh?  |
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DaeguKid
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| If they don't like working for Koreans then why do they? |
You know what the saddest thing about you is? Is that your avatar is actually smarter looking than your comments.
Nuff said
DK |
It's a no brainer, really...what part of my comment did you not understand...  |
Sadly enough I understood it all. But if you would like me to simplify it for you, its called the priority of feeding ones family and having shelter. Do you understand that?
What is with you? Is being called out here publicly not enough of a wake up call to you? I guess not...like I said, your picture is smarter than your words. |
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anyway
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| If they don't like working for Koreans then why do they? |
Knob |
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marmotkorea
Joined: 12 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:26 am Post subject: |
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"Guatemalia"
LOL |
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winterwawa
Joined: 06 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| DaeguKid wrote: |
| spliff wrote: |
| If they don't like working for Koreans then why do they? |
You know what the saddest thing about you is? Is that your avatar is actually smarter looking than your comments.
Nuff said
DK |
It's a no brainer, really...what part of my comment did you not understand... |
Wrong question spliff. The real question is what part of the article did you really understand? They work for these korean owned factories because the economy in south america is not as developed as in the rest of the world and they need money to help support their families. This may be the only job they can get, or it could be that the Korean factory owners painted a picture of a bright future with a great company and great benifits that the workers are unable to get from other work in their own country.
It doesn't really matter why they work their, the point is that the workers are being mistreated and the Korean bosses justify this mistreatment by saying they are training the workers to work like a korean works. It's called abuse and it would not be tolerated in other more advanced counties, except maybe Korea.
To koamerican: I agree with Goldmember. How can you compare a bunch of abusive Korean supervisors to America's past? Wake up and enter the real world of Korean world dominate wanna be's. Koreans need to realize that their way of doing things is not always the best (in fact, it's rarely if ever the best) and beating people into submission in order to fullfil a day's quota is not the prober way to do business. What's happening to these workers has no resemblence to America's past, and is a sad comentary on the way Korean's treat their employees, both at home and abroad. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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The thing that p***es me off, is that in Korea, foreigners are pressured to act Korean in order to get a long. This is Korea, this is how we do things. That is the common explination for anything that we don't like or understand.
Yet, when Koreans go to another country, they also expect the nationals there to adopt the Korean mind set of how things should be done. Before coming to Korea in 1998, I taught at the ELI attached to my university. When ever a Korean student had any kind of problem at all, they always wanted things sorted out as if they were still in Korea.
"I'm Korean, please understand me."
Is the mantra of all Koreans no matter where they live. When are Koreans going to wake up and realize they are not the center of the universe? |
Not to be apologetic, but does your home country actually make concessions to that fact? When they do it in the US, I've always seen and heard people say "This is America, things are done this way here"
On top of that, you have westerners going to Korea saying "It's wrong to eat dog" or "I don't pour drinks with two hands for seniors or bow to people"
I see where you're going, but in the big scheme of things, it just seems to me like Koreans have had more opportunities recently to get out and do stuff that westerners have been doing for at least 400 years (forcing people in other lands to follow their standards) |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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I found this tasty piece of news, this time from Hungary....
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071127/hungary_hankook.html?.v=1
Evidently, Korea is trying to export its brand of "work ethics" around the world in the hope of improving the productivity of their host's labor pool....
As someone had said, Korean expats should try to adapt more to their host countries rather than change the environment to meet their own exploitive needs.
They are developing a reputation as slave-drivers in China, Vietnam and now Guatemala......
I remember a story a long time ago where Kathy Lee Gifford came under fire because some of her products were produced in sweatshop conditions and the same is now happening with GAP products.
Yet, Koreans are scrambling to explain and even justify the harsh conditions they place non-Korean workers.......again, the marvel of Korean logic........... |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: If we have it bad sometimes with Korean bosses... |
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" They just keep yelling,' Faster, faster' but we are human beings, not robots that simply work faster by pushing a button."
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I had one of those buttons, but my boss broke it the first time they tried it. |
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