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Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

I was in the teachers room in my school and I saw two very serious looking men sitting on the couch. They didn't look like they could crack a smile, so I asked my co-teacher who they were.

He said that they are here to talk with my students about joining North Korea and South Korea. He mentioned that they are from North Korea. They have then had a guy on the school speaker going non stop in korea and singing songs. The name Kim Jong Il is coming up every few sentences.

Did I mishear or do they really have North Korean people going around the school talking about reunification? Has anyone else encountered this?

normalcyispasse · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject:

WTF?!

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

Thats my feeling. Its kind of surprising. I also wish the person on the speaker system would stop talking. Though he's probably reciting everything great about South Korea and all their achievements. Or maybe its North Korea, it seems to be a ongoing speech with clapping going on every now and then.

They sure didn't seem happy to see me when I saw them, but if they really are from North Korea, then thats no surprise. It will be interesting to see if this is going on at other schools. Question

sojourner1 · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:34 am Post subject:

Guess they are working on reunification of the 2 Koreas.

Berghoff · Joined: 25 Oct 2007

You work at what kind of school?

halfmanhalfbiscuit · Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Location: Seoul

Maybe Kim Il Sung University is setting up a student exchange programme? Confused

riley · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me

Did 'ya kiss 'em?

I don't know if I saw two commies who are obviously bothered seeing whitie, the first thought in my mind is to just make them even more uncomfortable. Kissing them somewhere on their face would probably do the trick.

sojourner1 · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:13 am Post subject:

Well, my concern about reunification is that they are becoming anti-American and too independent for everyones good. President Bush's actions and policies have really hit home in many countries around the world to make them react as being anti-American. When countries find their own economic successes and their independence, they tend to bite the hand that fed them and allowed them to position themselves in the global economy to acquire wealth. While I don't agree with President Bush, I don't agree with all these countries dissing America that America helped to rise to modernity. Those who gave their time, money, efforts, and even their lives to protect from former enemies and allow technologically advanced economies to develop, deserve something such as a little respect. I would hate to go to Bosnia one day and be dissed and rejected when I spent one hard year there back in 1996 in serving to protect them and develop their way of life in order to have a chance at prosperity. It was inconvenient hell if you have not seen inconvenient hell and an 18 hour work day, seven days a week to rebuild Bosnia. That would pizz me off majorly, but I would not doubt if they became anti-American in the process. Why? No one likes their hand held continuesly when they are achieving enough to power to declare independence. No one likes someone with double standards such as, "we will conquer you if you invade your neighbors, but we have every right to invade anywhere as we see fit as we are the meanest dog in town." That is modern American policy and I think it is fouled up and needs to be corrected before a former ally makes it clear.

JeannieAbroad · Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Location: Seoul

And how did the students react? Did the parents know about this? WTF!

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

If you poke around the teachers' office, the school library, or wherever they keep all the monthly publications from the various education offices and programs, you'll see some unification material in there. It does bother me that such a . . . utopian, I guess, vision is being presented to the kids. The biggest complaint I have about South Korea is its attitude toward the North. Oh well. Paris Hilton was here.

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

Seems there was a communication breakdown.

One person was from North Korea, but has been in South Korea for two years.

As to a writer who asked what would the parents think?

Well, this part of the country has always been pretty pro-north it seems, and reunification is considered a given down here, so I wouldn't think too many would complain.

Plus its a High School, so I would expect discussion. It will be interesting to find out more about the speech.

cornie_man · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Location: Sparkling in Korea

Had a bona fide North Korean girl the other week spend a couple of weeks at my school. Sure, my Korean is poor and we didn't really say a lot, but she sat at the desk beside me. Apparently, she escaped via China and was there at the middle school to speak to the social studies class. Everybody seemed pretty happy to have another guest from another country in the school and she got on well with the other staff. Because she could communicate with everyone, she was more valuable to the school than the native English speaker!