Korean Job Discussion Forums

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

Did you ever read somebodies post and change your own opinion? Is it all ego?

I write from ego.

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Know.

jim_we · Joined: 06 May 2004 Location: Korea

No, with all the wankers that post here, you'd be crazy to!

aarontendo · Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Location: Daegu-ish

I used to think Korea would probably have a nice foreign community...

Starla · Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul

I thought ESL English teachers all have a good command of the English language. I was dead wrong.

xingyiman · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

I used to think that foreign techers were really people who hadn't flipped burgers and could get dates back in their home country.

safeblad · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

I have been considering posting my own jokey response to this thread but have refrained because there is always the chance, that no matter what I think, I might actually be as unfunny as everyone else on here.

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

TexasPete · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Koreatown

I used to have some hope for the future of humanity....then i came to this website.

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Yes.

Whenever I see a contrail in the sky, I run for cover, begin shaking violently, and cry like a baby.

Before Dave's, they never bothered me. Laughing

Gollywog · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Debussy's brain

Yes. But not recently.

There used to be some insightful, intelligent people posting on Dave's. Most of them are gone.

I don't know whether they left Korea or just Dave's; I would guess both, given that they were intelligent.

There are still a few interesting intermittent posters, so if you read with discrimination, you can learn something.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Yes, my opinion has been changed in a number of ways that I think comes from some Dave's posters. Grotto and Derek (two guys who really didn't get along, ironically) made some really good arguments to convert me from being an idealist to a realist when it comes to education. I don't know how much they helped change my mind but I also came to realise that CLG and Jaderedux were right and I was wrong when it came to approaching middle school (though I still think K-girls are hotter).

I've also learned that there are some really interesting people doing some really great things in Korea. Dave's showed me that TEFL in Korea need not be like my first job and were it not for reading of all the great jobs people were doing I may well have languished on in my crapwon and left after a year thinking that Koreans were intrinsically moronic and hopeless.

I've known at least 20 Dave's members in real life and I can also say that I've learned the average Dave's poster is a decent person, despite some of the steam they let off here. That said I can also think of about 10 I hope I never, ever meet in the real world.