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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 8:26 pm Post subject: If you think Korea is bad.... |
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I was looking through the Spain forum and ran across this post. 
I thought it was worth the read. 
I juggled for a year in Spain it was great but when I landed in Malaga they threw me in Jail for vagrancy.I was released the next day and enjoyed the rest of my time there.My advice is learn to spell because you cannot just expect to find work substutuing at an international school.Juggling is an option but even working in street entertainment there is a lot of competition.
Sage advice for the disenfranchised.
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dumass
Joined: 02 Oct 2003
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Vagrancy?
(Forgive my ignorance) |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Here are some problems which I had in Bolivia which I don't have here:
 The people there think you're a Communist if you have a beard.
The police there take you off the street and interrogate you whenever they feel like it.
At social occasions, the people pressure you to drink alcohol even if you explain that you are a teetotaler. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
Here are some problems which I had in Bolivia which I don't have here:
The people there think you're a Communist if you have a beard.
The police there take you off the street and interrogate you whenever they feel like it.
At social occasions, the people pressure you to drink alcohol even if you explain that you are a teetotaler. |
Here are some problems I have in Korea which I never had anywhere else:
The people here think I'm an American for no good reason at all.
The children here stop you in the street and interrogate you whenever they feel like it.
At social occasions, the people pressure you to drink alcohol even if you explain that you are a teetotaler. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:27 am Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
| The people here think I'm an American for no good reason at all. |
Over 90% of the caucasian foreigners in Korea are Americans. So it's not "no good reason" but rather "incredibly likely". |
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kimcheeking
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| Corporal wrote: |
| The people here think I'm an American for no good reason at all. |
Over 90% of the caucasian foreigners in Korea are Americans. So it's not "no good reason" but rather "incredibly likely". |
Gord give us a link. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:35 am Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| Corporal wrote: |
| The people here think I'm an American for no good reason at all. |
Over 90% of the caucasian foreigners in Korea are Americans. So it's not "no good reason" but rather "incredibly likely". |
Prolly closer to 75%...there are a hella lot of Canadians over here too. I would guess Canadians rank #2 on caucasian foreigners.
Was telling someone today, Americans aren't here just as soldiers, they probably have about 20,000+ people working as civilian employees, DoD employees, or indirect, gov't contract employees. Like the guys who fix the computers on the bases work for a firm that is gov't contracted.
So think about the 30,000+ soldier then all the other people that help those soldiers, yet aren't military personel. Then the American businessmen, teachers, mormons etc. |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| Corporal wrote: |
| The people here think I'm an American for no good reason at all. |
Over 90% of the caucasian foreigners in Korea are Americans. So it's not "no good reason" but rather "incredibly likely". |
The kids aren't going to run into a high percentage of military personnel wandering around the streets. (Some yes) They're mostly on base or hang out in foreigner areas. The ones they will run into in an average situation will not be 90% American or anywhere close to that. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| kimcheeking wrote: |
| Gord wrote: |
| Corporal wrote: |
| The people here think I'm an American for no good reason at all. |
Over 90% of the caucasian foreigners in Korea are Americans. So it's not "no good reason" but rather "incredibly likely". |
Gord give us a link. |
I used math.
37,000 soldiers (of which the majority are caucasian), then compare this to the number of foreigner teachers in Korea (7000 E2 visas issued, plus a sizable number of illegals). Of this number, Americans are a very sizable number as they are what most schools want.
And of course, who can forget the huge number of Mormon's in Korea that surprise even me. Or foreign business investment of which the U.S. provides the largest foreign investment in Korea.
Plus the American forces in Korea is at the lowest it's ever been. In the mid-1990s it was 45,000 troops.
While us sexy, sexy Canadians may represent a substantial number of ESL teachers in Korea, we're hardly representative of the foreigners in Korea. |
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kimcheeking
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| kimcheeking wrote: |
| Gord wrote: |
| Corporal wrote: |
| The people here think I'm an American for no good reason at all. |
Over 90% of the caucasian foreigners in Korea are Americans. So it's not "no good reason" but rather "incredibly likely". |
Gord give us a link. |
I used math.
37,000 soldiers (of which the majority are caucasian), then compare this to the number of foreigner teachers in Korea (7000 E2 visas issued, plus a sizable number of illegals). Of this number, Americans are a very sizable number as they are what most schools want.
And of course, who can forget the huge number of Mormon's in Korea that surprise even me. Or foreign business investment of which the U.S. provides the largest foreign investment in Korea.
Plus the American forces in Korea is at the lowest it's ever been. In the mid-1990s it was 45,000 troops.
While us sexy, sexy Canadians may represent a substantial number of ESL teachers in Korea, we're hardly representative of the foreigners in Korea. |
where are is your source for the E2 visa thing...
I have met several white expat who are not teachers and are not americans but rather working for international corporations.
Gord I tend to agree with you, I just want to see the sources |
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Medic
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| So how come there are a huge number of Mormon in Korea? |
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Joe Thanks
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Dudleyville
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| So how come there are a huge number of Mormon in Korea? |
Go to Taiwan. They circle all supermarkets like sharks and harass exiting shoppers with their dogma.
In Taiwan, my adult students enjoyed the irony when I pointed out that by taking one letter out of the word mormon spells moron.
They don't like it either.
In Korea - it's the only country outside of America where some loony bat comes up to me on a subway and asks (in Korean) "Do you believe in Jesus?" I said in not so perfect Korean "Yaesoo eobdta" and she replied in English "Then you are going to hell."
I laugh pretty heartily (and am the size of an American football player) and the entire subway car was dead quiet. I think I frightened them.
Back in NY that happened once, but I didn't laugh I used some saucy words to let them know what they could do with their dogma. Nobody cared and the lady scuttled away.
So, two strikes and I'm on my way to eternal damnation.
Cheers,
Joe |
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FUBAR
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: The Y.C.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| lol.... I hate those Bible thumpers who get angry when we refuse to listen to their spew. Fortunately for me, I have been approached only twice in the 2+ years that I've lived here. |
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Mosley
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:29 pm Post subject: Ha, ha! |
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| I just ran into "Buck & Jim" last night in my one-horse town. Luckily, I was sipping from a soju carton & offered the boys a slurp. Loved the looks on their faces.... |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: If you think Korea is bad.... |
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| the poster on the SPAIN board wrote: |
| My advice is learn to spell because you cannot just expect to find work substutuing at an international school. |
haha..love how he misspells substituting in the same sentence. |
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