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kentucker4
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia
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 Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:08 am Post subject: Hagon in the summer = heatbox |
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| I have been sweating my ass of all day. Reminds me of an old landscaping job. Is it normal for them not to turn on the AC much to save money? |
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xCustomx
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| Actually it's quite the opposite I've found. Most places, my public school included, will turn on the AC and then open up the windows. They also love to open up the windows when the heat is on. |
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Skippy
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 3:09 am Post subject: |
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Still to early to turn on the Air Conditioner! In Korea there is a time and place for everything. I think the turn on day for air conditioners is June 1st. Remember you do not turn the Air Con on till it is SUMMER. It is not summer yet.
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 4:12 am Post subject: |
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$hit, I turned it on too early. I'm sitting comfortably in my cool villa right now though . Be careful when running it at home however. I got an electric bill for 250,000 2 years ago in August  . |
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I'm Seoul Lost
Joined: 19 Jun 2006
Location: In the mountains of Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| Skippy wrote: |
Still to early to turn on the Air Conditioner! In Korea there is a time and place for everything. I think the turn on day for air conditioners is June 1st. Remember you do not turn the Air Con on till it is SUMMER. It is not summer yet.
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Here in PS today, I got some requests from students for "Air Con". (It is humid as hell lately, but, since I generally hate air conditioners and like fresh air, I make do with open windows and a little more sweat than normal). After teaching the kids proper English (air conditioner/AC), I obligingly turned on the AC.
Two years ago, in an adult's hagwon, I had conrol over the AC/heat in my classroom. Never worked a kid's hagwon in the summer, though the one I did in the winter had substandard heating facilities. (I liked it, though the kids were just about dying from exposure) |
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plus99
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| kentucker, you are obviously just a redneck so i am not taking this opinion seriously. but even in the winter my hagwan was a "smellbox" so i cant imagine the situation improving anytime soon. |
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Fresh Prince
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: The glorious nation of Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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At one hokwon I worked at, they pulled the same thing. I just turned on the air-con whenever I walked in the room. The students would all clap and say thank you, and some would try to explain that I wasn't supposed to turn it on yet, but other students would kick them and tell them to be quiet.
The director would never actually go inside the classroom but would walk by the classroom window and notice the little-green display lights on the AC were on, then tell the Korean teacher to tell me not to turn on the AC. One of the brighter students, having suffered muscle atrophy due to prolonged periods of time studying English, accidentally stumbled into the little-green display lights in such a way that they never functioned again--strangely, the director never bothered about the AC again. |
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toddswift
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: Hagon in the summer = heatbox |
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| kentucker4 wrote: |
| I have been sweating my ass of all day. Reminds me of an old landscaping job. Is it normal for them not to turn on the AC much to save money? |
it just shows you got a shiiiit job. my place turns on the air from 4pm when I arrive, till 7pm when I leave. pure paradise, huge t.v in the room, I can sit or stand, you should find a new job dude |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| My coteacher likes to turn off my fan and the AC. Oh, I wish I didn't have a coteacher. |
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expat2001
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| I ve had over 7 teaching jobs in korea. So far the worst I ve had was GEPIK. Last years school was all about saving money.They didnt use soap when htey had the kids clean the school. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I ve had over 7 teaching jobs in korea. So far the worst I ve had was GEPIK. Last years school was all about saving money.They didnt use soap when htey had the kids clean the school. |
Oh yuck. Then everything would smell like pee. They used to mop our classroom with the same mop they used to clean the mens bathroom with, but were too lazy to use soap sometimes. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Skippy wrote: |
| I think the turn on day for air conditioners is June 1st. Remember you do not turn the Air Con on till it is SUMMER. It is not summer yet. |
It's not summer until June 21.  |
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