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[Carlyles Ghost]

If you wish, share your stories about the the worst drunk you've ever had with your Korean co-teachers (or one that "a friend" had). The kind of drunk where you (or "your friend") woke up and thought, "Oh my god! I said THAT to the principal!?!?" or "please tell me I wasn't hitting on my co-teacher!" (or the Principal's wife )
Alternately, feel free to include stories about Korean teachers who had nasty drunks. No names, no towns, no provinces. Just stories.

[peppermint]

My first teaching gig in Korea was at an adult hagwon, just outside of the bar district in Cheong ju. One morning, the co-workers and I were prepping for our 6:30 am classes, when one of the Korean teachers who rarely spoke to us, came in to the teachers lounge, frantic. Couldn't really make sense of what he was trying to tell us, so we followed him.

Some random hagwon monkey had gotten rip-roaring drunk and stayed out all night. Apparently he'd thought it was time to go to work and wasn't all that aware of where he was because he had staggered into one of our classrooms and proceeded to pass out on the desk.

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[Carlyles Ghost]

[quote="caniff My American buddy puked ALL OVER the men's bathroom. I mean, he puked on every available surface EXCEPT the toilet.

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[NilesQ]

I worked at an ECC kindergarten that had a retired real teacher from US. He used to dring vodka at work. We would find empties in the bathroom. He shouted at the kids and kicked the s h i t out of the coppier one day. He got kicked out of his apt for singing naked and playing the guitar on his balcony at all hours of night. He was awesome!

[Yu_Bum_suk]

At opening assembly this week one teacher, when introduced to the students, stepped forward, bowed, stood up again, and then fell over backwards. He often seems to be staggering when he walks. If he's not drunk at work a lot of the time then he must have about the worst balance of any sober person I've known.

[Lekker]

[CeleryMan]

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[JMO]

At the end of my first year in Korea, the new guy was there for my last few days as I trained him. He was a in his fifties and had a lot of holes in his cv and half finished contracts. He seemed ok though. On my last day he ran after me as I was leaving and said I had forgotten stuff from my fridge, namely two bottles of soju and a bottle of jim beam. I said for him to keep them as a housewarming gift.

Big mistake. Turns out he was a recovering alcoholic and I had helped him fall off the wagon again. He stopped showing up for work and was found passed out on the street a number of times. They fired him when he didn;t show up for a few days. Went to his house(my old boss and my old coworker) and knocked on his door.; there was no answer, so they opened it with the master key(pretty dodgy actually). He was sitting in his underwear staring at the door and unintelligible. They finally got him out and last I heard he was living in a park although that was last summer. The local ajummas were taking care of him.

His parents back home were not at all surprised and said it had happened before(the half finished contracts). Hopefully he is in better shape now.I still laugh at the video on my buddy's phone of him sleeping and rolling in a gutter/alleyway in downtown daegu....poor guy.

[ryouga013]

I didn't do anything tooooo stupid last night when I went out drinking but had I stayed there any longer or tried to finish the last pitcher of beer I could seriously see some funny stories coming from that!

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[lastat06513]

This didn't happen in Korea (I was blessed with having rather 'sober' foreign and Korean coworkers (or at least were able to sober up before class the next day).
Surprisingly, this happened in Kuwait.
I got there in the evening and everyone was asleep. The next day after I did alittle shopping, I got home to see this one guy, an American, was passed out drunk in front of the building. I started to think (and become confused).....wait a minute! This is the middle east, its a DRY region.....He woke up to see me standing there with bags full of stuff. He clumsily got up to introduce himself in a very drunken state. "Hi.....my name is.....my name is Jim....and what would your name be?"

I said, "I'd be late to watch a movie, excuse me." And I just went around him to go into the apartment building.
It turns out he was drunk almost 24/7, but they found him to a 'good' teacher and didn't do anything outragious, that the Kuwaitis turned a blind eye to it....
But I always wondered where the hell did he find booze

[ryouga013]

[lastat06513]

Someone told me he did that....I was just surprised he did it for a whole year, under the Kuwaiti police's radar, not to mention the religious police....

But then again, they served alcohol at the 4-star hotels in KC.....

[makemischief]

we had one uni teacher at my previous school whose drinking was always on the heavy side (found multiple times blacked out in front of our apartment building sans various and rotating items of clothing and other personal belongings)- but during the winter break he took it to a whole new level:

korean teachers were teaching intensive TOEFL classes. he gets plastered one day and wanders into their classes barefoot and starts cussing them out and shouting how the students will never learn english and the korean teachers are shite. had to be dragged out by security.

they were desperate for teachers so amusingly this did not get him fired.

alas, the upcoming CRC sent him packing. he had multiple DUI's he said. go figure.

[ladron]

Had a hugely pervy teacher get all his female students phone numbers (uni-age students) then get drunk and call them on Friday nights telling them he wanted to be their boyfriend and they should come over to his place.

He didn't last long.