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afsjesse · Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Location: Kickin' it in 'Kato town.

So the science teacher just looked at the Solar Eclipse without wearing any UV protection.... even after I told him that you need to do so. I was offered to look at it but I said I didnt have UV glasses. So now he's on his desk complaining that his eyes hurt... Rolling Eyes

Korea: Lack of Logic.

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

Can you see much of it?

fermentation · Joined: 22 Jun 2009

Lol what. The science teacher? I was taught not to stare directly into an eclipse in first grade. American first graders have more common sense than your Korean HS science teacher.

coralreefer_1 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009

I put on two pair of sunglasses and put a pinhole in a small piece of paper and saw it perfectly over and over and over again.

Silly teacher...

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Didn't see anything here, it was too cloudy. I took a walk around the block and quite a few people were looking up at it directly, or looking through their cameras or telephones. A few children were as well, but the preschool class were given some sort of special colored transparent paper.

afsjesse · Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Location: Kickin' it in 'Kato town.

This was a MS Science Teacher and the lack of logic for something that could blind you is astounding, even for Korea. Then again, this is Korea where stupidity is mindboggling.

You could see about 3/4 of the sun blocked out at 12:50. Very cloudy here, but there was a clear patch of sky above the school so we lucked out.

Korea.. where the K stands for Kooky.

riverboy · Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Location: Incheon

I put my Ski goggles on over my Oakley's and had a great look. Clear blue skies in Songdo!

GoldMember · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

These people also spot weld without protective eye wear. If they can look at electric welding then a solar eclipse should pose no problem.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Did he die?

mayorgc · Joined: 19 Oct 2008

what's the danger of watching the eclipse through a camera viewfinder?

Snake Doctor · Joined: 14 Jul 2009

Had an argument with my wife 2x this month about this.

First she tried to tell me that looking directly into the sun wouldn't cause one to go blind/burn your retina while we were in Jeju last month. I just told her to google it if she didn't believe me. She insisted that it was an urban legend.

Then today she told me that her whole office looked at the eclipse for a long time, and that I should do it too, but not to drive for 15 min afterwards. I yelled at her and told her that I'd had enough of her idiocy.

She never googled the first thing either.

I'm sick and tired of K logic. I realize that not all Koreans are this stupid. But JESUS CHRIST, how can she be so smart about other things and so STUPID about this!?!

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

polonius · Joined: 05 Jun 2004

For those of you that want to prove to people.

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

LOL:

http://www.fnnews.com/view?ra=Sent1201m_View&corp=fnnews&arcid=0921718697&cDateYear=2009&cDateMonth=07&cDateDay=22

retrogress · Joined: 07 Jun 2008

Now, why did I get busted with my post about "every last one" being morons? Look at the pictures. It's all documented. Stop denying it. (yes, i'm still being [half] facetious)

By the way, at my school, which was already out for vacation, they didn't look at the sun with unprotected eyes. But, the fact that they were not at all interested in the whole thing baffled my Chinese wife and I who were out with black and white film leaders watching it on the school lawn.