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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| I'd rather not say where I'm from because I wish to remain completely anonymous, but Korea has made me fully appreciate where I'm from, and all of the wonderful and not so wonderful (but still better than Korea) places I've been. |
my bs radar is going up a little bit |
Yeah, he's embarrassed to say, pretty much. He's probably from Detroit or maybe some place like Jackson, Mississippi. |
Hey man, don't knock the D.
Plus my ex-roomate a firefighter in the D, went to J-State for Uni and said if the place has anything, it had one of the view burger joints that delivered during the 90s (now in the 2000s there are more places that deliver a burger. And the fries stayed crispy. They have to be onto something magical down there to get that to happen. |
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methdxman
Joined: 14 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| methdxman wrote: |
| sadguy wrote: |
| gem wrote: |
| I'd rather not say where I'm from because I wish to remain completely anonymous, but Korea has made me fully appreciate where I'm from, and all of the wonderful and not so wonderful (but still better than Korea) places I've been. |
my bs radar is going up a little bit |
Yeah, he's embarrassed to say, pretty much. He's probably from Detroit or maybe some place like Jackson, Mississippi. |
Hey man, don't knock the D.
Plus my ex-roomate a firefighter in the D, went to J-State for Uni and said if the place has anything, it had one of the view burger joints that delivered during the 90s (now in the 2000s there are more places that deliver a burger. And the fries stayed crispy. They have to be onto something magical down there to get that to happen. |
Steel I remembered you and amended my comment... but come on! |
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Murakano
Joined: 10 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Buffalo (NY)
Burnley/Blackburn/Hull/Luton (UK) |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/21/postcards_from_hell |
Amen.
Saying that S. Korea is the worst place to which you've ever been says a lot about how much you know about the world.
It's really not so bad. |
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southernman
Joined: 15 Jan 2010
Location: On the mainland again
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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I lived in Cairo on two seperate ocassions, I liked it a lot. But, yes If you're female and a westerner you can certainly get hassled.
I worked back home at an afterschool/holiday programme centre in a very poor neighborhood, lot's of gangs both adult and youth. Out of 40 someting young people there were 4 different youth gang affiliations.
Once a 12 yr old girl brought 2 knives to an ice skating outing because another girl had dissed her dads gang the day before. Luckily nothing major happened but there were always tensions and conflicts.
Korean kid's are usually a joy to teach in comparrison |
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itistime
Joined: 23 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:08 am Post subject: |
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Omaha, Nebraska. 
Actually, it's not so terrible here. There's a reason all of
us are here. |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:21 am Post subject: |
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Snellville, GA- I swear to God that someone was playing a horrible horrible joke when they founded this place. :shock:
This place just so isn't funny anymore 'yo..
Yeah.man The Russian Mafia will kill anyone over anything.
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| The garbage situation has improved a lot in the last 10 years in korea. About 8 years ago they started to go to paid gov't garbage bags. People didn't want to buy them so they just dumped their garbage in a big pile in public cans. The government took the public garbage cans away which left massive messes of garbage around for quite awhile, until they installed cameras over the worst places to catch people who cheated. That saved a lot of money so they begin taking garbage cans out of the subways too. Of course the excuse was that it was to prevent terrorism and bombings in the subway, but I think they just enjoy having money to spend on other things . At least now we have some garbage cans in the subway , but not many. Fora few years there was nothing. |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:08 am Post subject: |
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Worst places I've been.
1. Tristram - War-torn, dangerous
2. Lut Gholein - Hot, dry, dangerous
3. Kurast - Humid, decrepit, dangerous
4. Rockford, Illinois |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| @Oreo- How's Chicago? Is it near Rockford? |
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littlelisa
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| Canada. I love my city and have no problems living there, but you asked about teaching ESL. Kids who don't care, don't want to learn, elementary school kids who plan to drop out and live on welfare, kids on drugs, parents who don't care, schools where teachers burn out on average within 5 years. Yeah, I'll take teaching here over that. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:35 am Post subject: |
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1. Tristram - War-torn, dangerous
2. Lut Gholein - Hot, dry, dangerous
3. Kurast - Humid, decrepit, dangerous |
I thought I knew most places on earth, but where is this !??! |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| Diablo II. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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legrande
Joined: 23 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| reactionary wrote: |
| From a job standpoint, Japan could be much worse than Korea. Just check out "dispatch" companies for public schools, such as Interac. Complaints for the public school system outside of "JET" far outmatch any whining those in EPIK/GEPIK/SMOE do. |
Yes, the job market there was hell, and even after the earthquake the jobs on offer pay like 30,000won per hour for part-time if you're lucky, more like in the 20,000's or even teens.
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Sody wrote:
Gibberish wrote:
Seriously? I have taught in many countries but I would be interested in teaching there someday. How does one get a job in North Korea?.
The British Council advertise jobs from time to time (well, every couple of years). I believe, but I may be wrong, that only Brits can teach there. The salary range posted the last time a job was advertised there was phenomenal. If I recall correctly, you need to be a certified teacher with at least two years EFL experience. |
I was told some American dude from my current uni went up North after finishing here last winter. |
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