Korean Job Discussion Forums

[casey's moon]

[squat toilet]

[Emu Bitter]

The Aussie passport tends to be confusing to Koreans, I came here for 2 years, left & came back again(3 years for my sins) both times when I initially entered the country, they thought my middle name was my first name. At my first school not knowing any better, I corrected them. At my first school after returning to Korea, knowing that my middle name was easier to pronounce for young kids I didn't bother & went by my middle name for 14 months.

[Hollywoodaction]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

No no no no no no no no no.


My name means fool IF you pronounce it in Konglish, which they usually do. They will speak their doggerel and laugh about my name, I will still be me.

[tzechuk]

[KorJen]

I say keep your name!!! or if they insist, you can always rename the director "Ron Jeremy" and call him that, all the time, in front of everyone... "hey, how's it goin, Ron Jeremy"

Here's a great game that will save you the headache of hearing "teacher, teacher, teacher!" all the time.

I always use my first name when i start teaching. after 2 days, i bring in a 10,000won of 100won coins. i give each student in my class 5. Then I tell them, "any time I hear someone yell the word "teacher" you have to give me 100won" (i keep the collected ones in a jar, in the closet) Usually you end up collecting most of them back in the beginning, but most of the kiddies would like to keep the money so they start to think before they speak and totally catch on to the "stop yelling `teacher'" thing.

its fun! and worth the 10,000won to watch them get cut-throat and "rat" on each other. It's like KinderBusiness 101

[Hanson]

[peemil]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

If your name was Jill you'd want to change it.

[mindmetoo]

Wow! I suppose, given I have the children take English names, I would split the difference and take a Korean name. If you have a Korean GF or a Korean friend, ask her to fix you up with a good name... but of course you have to trust them... "You should call yourself Lee Sang Han" �̻���. (I'll let people who know some Korean figure out why that's a bad name.)

My name ends up getting pronounced like the Korean word for "knife". The kids, mainly the boys, seem to find it funny they have a knife teacher.

In light of Japan making Koreans take Japanese names during their colonial past, I sometimes grapple with this idea of giving kids English names. But then I think "well, it's fun for the kids... they have a secret name. And when they're older and want to deal with foreigners and are tired of having their name mispronounced they might pick a name on their own. And that can end up in names like Melvin or Bertha."

"Bertha?"

"It sounds very nice."

"Not in English."

[temporos]