Korean Job Discussion Forums

garykasparov · Joined: 27 May 2007

http://www.geocities.com/mhrehbach/akoreanstory.html

normalcyispasse · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject:

TL;dr.

babtangee · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject:

Blah blah blah.

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

The link is broken and the romanization sucks.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

I made it maybe a third of the way through before I realized how stupidly long it was.

What I read sounded pretty extreme. I've heard of some pretty bad experiences here but nothing anywhere near the scale of what that writer is claiming.

It seems a little off to me anyway. He claims people were threatening his life if he didn't leave Korea in one paragraph and calmly talking about his search for a new job in Korea in the next. Searching for a new job even after he claimed he was blacklisted. (I think, maybe I lost track, terribly written)

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I quit in the 4th paragraph since it was just more whining, like the first 3. I'm guessing the whining continues.

TexasPete · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Koreatown

Too long and who the Aitch-E-Double-Toothpicks uses geocities anymore?

huck · Joined: 19 Jan 2003

So you're still holding a grudge about something that happened over 6 years ago, and you want people to read it and think what? That they shouldn't come to South Korea? That they shouldn't let their owners give them crappy apartments??

sorry...i could only read the first few paragraphs, then I skimmed to the end, hoping for an exciting conclusion...I was sadly disappointed.

The writing is too choppy.....Some sentences are too short, and others have weirdly-placed clauses.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

More like Dung Seng Nim. Peeyew!

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Amusing.
I read about a third of it (a considerable slog) before jumping down to the end (no surprise ending).
A wack persona calmly explaining his outlandish Korean tribulations -- theres an offbeat literary quality to it.
Kafkaesque.

The_Eyeball_Kid · Joined: 20 Jun 2007

whatever · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Location: Korea: More fun than jail.

Thanks for wasting my time.

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

Way too long to read.

Any story like this has had the shock taken out of it after reading Prisoner of Blunderland a few years back.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I printed out this abortion and started to read it on the subway. After about the third time this guy is screwed over royally, you wonder why the hell he isn't on the first plane back to Oz. Jesus, we can all be taken once, find ourselves in a bad situation, but this guy just gets butt fked again and again and again and again. You quickly lose your sympathy for this idiot. It's a bit like that damn Shopaholic novel. Every time her solution presents itself, she screws it up.

And does he ever spend more than 10 minutes in a classroom? He seems to spend all his time in police cars or in police stations. No wonder he's being treated like crap. He's not working.

I like the part where he's worried the rookie cops are homos. And his obsession with air conditioning kind of makes you laugh. Okay, we get it. You came to Korea during a time when a/c wasn't widely used. We get it.