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stevieg4ever
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Location: London, England
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I agree OP I think many people do and I don't think neither you nor I will be the last of these unfortunate and unsuspecting individuals. Don't let people on this forum tell you otherwise just because they have lucked out with a decent school or who might make you think you have failed where they have succeeded because they are simply more 'culturally aware' and better at 'adapting' then you.
I'll be visiting 10 countries in the Aisa-pacific region during the next 8 months and I wonder if they will be as arrogant, racist, deluded, insecure and narrow minded as many Korean people. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Why is it that the women here are TOTALLY sexually repressed and uptight. Yet there are like 30 whorehouses on every block? Strange. |
Ummm....Repressed? Not in my experience. |
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stevieg4ever
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Location: London, England
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Totally totally agree with this. Its entertainment not education. You are a good teacher based on how many smiles and waves you get in a lesson.
Koreans don't know how to teach English properly nor do they know to assimilate a non-korean effectively into their 'instiutions'. All they are worried about is their frivolous and irrelevant culture.
English education doesn't exist here: its more like English entertainment. 'Monkey stand up, monkey sit down' hasn't yielded the results they need and want.
This is the most unprofessional and ametuer working environment I have witnessed. Ametuer people will always yield ametuer results no matter what culture or country they are from.
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| Dome Vans wrote: |
| To the OP, Korea isn't for everyone. I wasn't for you. Fine. For others it's really good. Sorry it didn't work out for you. |
Not to be a heel, but if you're a serious teacher, and you're working at a hagwon or a public school, you will not be able to do the job the way it should be done, period. That will lead to a lot of frustration, if you are professional, like the OP clearly seems to be.
Korea is a great place for a lot of people to make some cash, score some chicks, travel, or find a uni job.
Basically, Korean teachers and hagwon directors ruin it for real teachers, IMO. |
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Diana X2
Joined: 06 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| stevieg4ever wrote: |
I agree OP I think many people do and I don't think neither you nor I will be the last of these unfortunate and unsuspecting individuals. Don't let people on this forum tell you otherwise just because they have lucked out with a decent school or who might make you think you have failed where they have succeeded because they are simply more 'culturally aware' and better at 'adapting' then you.
I'll be visiting 10 countries in the Aisa-pacific region during the next 8 months and I wonder if they will be as arrogant, racist, deluded, insecure and narrow minded as many Korean people. |
thanks for your support. it is helpful to hear that. in fact, i did luck out with relatively good schools, in 2 out of 4 of my jobs here. but the ones that were bad were *SO* bad i am honestly traumatized by those experiences. i've never experienced such unnacountably hostile, dishonest and laughably incompetent working environments in my life.
happy travels and keep us posted if you feel like it as to how you find the other people in asia..... |
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Diana X2
Joined: 06 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:53 am Post subject: |
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| Oreovictim wrote: |
| Diana X2 wrote: |
| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
Why is it that the women here are TOTALLY sexually repressed and uptight. Yet there are like 30 whorehouses on every block? Strange. |
i've never met men who were more sexually weird than korean men. |
Oh yeah? How so? Give us the juicy details, please. |
hmmm, i never kiss and tell-- but i will say that penile deformities, the emmittance of oral sounds so strange as to be frightening, and a 19th century-like insistence upon total female passivity are now among my memories thanks to korean men. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| At least, if you dislike Korea, you're doing the right thing and leaving. I always said that the moment I got sick of Korea I'd leave, and I kept my word. Look at some of the posters in this thread who make all sorts of alarming confessions as to their wellbeing and yet won't, perhaps can't, leave. Imagine being absolutely unemployable back home and reliant on a country you hate for a poxy little salary. That's gotta suck. |
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