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kimchikowboy
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: Can this student interview your Korean wife? |
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Hi,
I'm posting this for a colleague, who has a student who needs to interview Korean women married to foreigners for her master's.
Here is the original e-mail I recieved:
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Student: Lee, Ho-young
email: kidungkidung at hanmail.net
She is one of my students in the Women's Studies master's program and is doing research for her Master's thesis.
She is interested in the lives of Korean women married to Western men who teach English in Korea.
Her main focus is how those Korean women manage the married life, negotiate conflicts within marriage and family affairs, and interpret them from the feminist perspective.
She wants to interview Korean women, not the husbands, and hopefully find some women in the Pohang area, where she lives now. |
I think many of you guys have done/are doing/are thinking about doing a master's or Ph.D. If so, please remember that part of the research is finding research subjects, so please pay it forward and pass this info on to your significant other.
I don't know much about the procedure, but you can PM me if you wish and I'll try to answer/get the answer to any questions. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| How much does it pay? |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| With respect, there's a difference between asking subjects about their teaching methodologies, and asking them how they resolve conflicts in their married life. The latter is a little bit more private... |
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Whistleblower
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I would politely decline and tell her to mind her own business. My family life is private and those Koreans that want to know about my family life can f**k right off. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't see anything wrong with it as long as the interview was completely anonymous. Meaning, the wife and the girl meet at some public venue (starbucks), and without giving any names they just get right to the interview. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| I don't see anything wrong with it as long as the interview was completely anonymous. Meaning, the wife and the girl meet at some public venue (starbucks), and without giving any names they just get right to the interview. |
And, she gets paid upfront. |
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Darkness
Joined: 12 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Or is repaid with a 3-way...
giggity-giggity!! |
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kimchikowboy
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Yes, Hanson, it is a bit more private. But you may note that in the original post, she is in the Women's Studies program, not a teaching program. If any readers have pursued a degree above a bachelor's, they may know a problem with completing it is finding research subjects. Two ways to go are doing surveys (quantitative research) or doing interviews (qualitative research -- has anyone seen the movie about Kinsey, the sex researcher at Indiana University?). Because of numbers (not a large survey pool -- not so many Korean women married to English teachers) this student chose the interview route. Apparently, she had several teachers lined up for the project. Then in the ensuing year when she was doing coursework and preparing the study, many of them left. Therefore she is looking for more subjects to interview.
Of course, Pkang202, it would be annonymous and probably unread by anyone but her advisory committee.
I doubt it would be paid (she is a grad student, after all), but I have suggested that some sort of small gratuity may be welcomed. |
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Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| Why just English teachers? Why not soldiers, businessmen, other expats, or other foreigners? |
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Captain Corea
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| Any chance it can be done thorugh email? |
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kimchikowboy
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| Why just English teachers? Why not soldiers, businessmen, other expats, or other foreigners? |
When it was first explained to me, I believe my colleague said "foreigners." Perhaps it is not only English teachers, but if it is, a reason may be to control certain outside variables. For example, most of us have a uni degree (I hope) and the majority are from either the U.S. or Canada. Also, income is within a fairly designated range (compared to businessmen), and as opposed to soldiers, we don't live on a military base (a slice of America). I didn't design the study, so those are just thoughts off the top of my head.
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| Any chance it can be done thorugh email? |
I was told the interview would take about an hour. I don't think so, but it wouldn't hurt to have your significant other to check to make sure.
Thanks for your interest. |
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The Hammer
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like great material for the Korean TV show Pandora's Box. |
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meangradin
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:09 am Post subject: |
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"Sounds like great material for the Korean TV show Pandora's Box."
I can't even watch that show. That is some serious BS! Korean "journalism" at it's finest. |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| I don't see anything wrong with it as long as the interview was completely anonymous. Meaning, the wife and the girl meet at some public venue (starbucks), and without giving any names they just get right to the interview. |
Hell, then any Korean can pose as a foreigner's wife (not that I can see why one would want to). Sounds to me like this Phd. is gonna have about as much credibility as Dr. Hwang's. Heheh. |
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Major Kong
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Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Hell, I wouldn't let them interview any of my previous Korean trysts!, let alone my previous wives. |
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