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toddswift

Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: How many koreas can fit inside |
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CANADA???
Had a student ask me this, anyone know????? |
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drunkenfud

Joined: 08 Mar 2007
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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Lying down or standing up? |
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VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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drunkenfud wrote: |
Lying down or standing up? |
squatting, of course |
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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drunkenfud wrote: |
Lying down or standing up? |
Hah! Koreas not Koreans!
The answer is 100 (koreas into Canada, that is) |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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100 Koreas. It's almost exact. I love pointing out that we have a much smaller population too. |
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toddswift

Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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thanks |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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poet13 wrote: |
100 Koreas. It's almost exact. I love pointing out that we have a much smaller population too. |
Yeah, I enjoy seeing their faces when I tell them I can fit all of Korea between my city and NYC... which is in the same state. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Total area of Canada (9,984,670 square kilometers) divided by total area of South Korea (99,646 square kilomters) is 100.201 (approximately). If you include the total area of North Korea (another 120,540 square kilometers) as part of Korea, then your answer would be 45.347 (approximately).
Scotticus wrote: |
Yeah, I enjoy seeing their faces when I tell them I can fit all of Korea between my city and NYC... which is in the same state. |
Doesn't it remind you of the Geography lesson scene in The King and I? |
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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You can tell them over and over that 100 South Koreas will fit into Canada and they will still have absolutely no concept of how big it is. People are amazed when they find out I'm Canadian and have never been to Niagara Falls or the Rocky Mountains. They act like there's something wrong with me. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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I like telling them it takes a week to cross canada on a motorcycle, coast to coast.
Or, that we have 5 time zones.
Or, that I have travelled for a month in Canada and not seen another person. That one they find unbelievable, but once you get up near the tree line, there ain't no one there. |
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JungMin

Joined: 18 May 2005
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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poet13 wrote: |
Or, that we have 5 time zones. |
Isn't there six?? |
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Return Jones

Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Location: I will see you in far-off places
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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JungMin wrote: |
poet13 wrote: |
Or, that we have 5 time zones. |
Isn't there six?? |
Yes, six. |
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ttompatz

Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: |
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Underwaterbob wrote: |
You can tell them over and over that 100 South Koreas will fit into Canada and they will still have absolutely no concept of how big it is. People are amazed when they find out I'm Canadian and have never been to Niagara Falls or the Rocky Mountains. They act like there's something wrong with me. |
No worse than when I was on a field trip to Canada with one of our classes and the co-teacher wanted to take a quick drive over to Toronto on Saturday afternoon to check the nightlife there. We were in Calgary (heading to Banff on the Monday).
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nicholas_chiasson

Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:13 am Post subject: |
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I keep telling my teachers I want to go see Vladivostok. They say "You've already been to Russia." I tell them I might want too see both the face and er, rear, of the largest country on earth. |
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