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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: "English Zones" allowed in apartments next year |
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We have an English zone like this at our school, and nobody speaks English except the guy who sells food there (and he only speaks English to waygooks!)
This sounds like a great place to hang out and troll for privates. AHHAHA
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/10/117_32751.html
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Apartment complexes will be able to build English immersion zones and facilities for residents from next year, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said Wednesday.
The English-only zones, however, should operate as non-profit facilities, it said. The revised bill comes as many other existing English immersion villages are suffering huge losses.
A recent government report found that some 20 of these villages run by provincial governments lost nearly 20 billion won last year. However, it is also questionable whether residents can find appropriate staff and efficiently run the facilities.
The government plans to advise municipal governments to overhaul English village construction plans due to the growing losses and low quality of the programs.
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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This sounds weird. Appts. cost a shitload, and no one really speaks Engish when it comes down to it. Jesus, in an appt complex?  |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| This country is to half-arsed what Michael Jackson is to creepyness. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Its simple:
Apartments are going to do it in areas like Mokdong, Gangnam, and Junggye-dong where the residents are English crazy. People will get suckered to move in and find out no one is speaking English in these zones. |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
Its simple:
Apartments are going to do it in areas like Mokdong, Gangnam, and Junggye-dong where the residents are English crazy. People will get suckered to move in and find out no one is speaking English in these zones. |
I couldn't imagine a more acute version of hell. Sure there would be some kind of stipulation for free rent, etc. if you moved in and hours would be deliniated, but you'd have the gawking, slackjawed nitwits banging on your door at all hours. Drunken salaryment wanting to get their groove on, giggling idiot teenagers, overly persistent adjumas and whatnot would also be a constant pain. Personally, I would rather eat leper feces than enter one of these places. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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I doubt they would hire anyone to work at these. I would imagine its just a room in an apartment building with fancy English signs that are mispelled.
It won't be staffed, and maybe they'll play a Shrek DVD on a loop with the Korean subtitles. |
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hugekebab
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Another 'English by osmosis' half arsed scheme.
We have an English zone in our university and everyone just speaks Korean and goes there to watch the big TV. They have like 400 English books that about 2 people in the uni are at the level to read. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I doubt they would hire anyone to work at these. I would imagine its just a room in an apartment building with fancy English signs that are mispelled.
It won't be staffed, and maybe they'll play a Shrek DVD on a loop with the Korean subtitles. |
Image a white dude accidentally going in there. It would be like Dead Rising. |
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Bread
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I doubt they would hire anyone to work at these. I would imagine its just a room in an apartment building with fancy English signs that are mispelled.
It won't be staffed, and maybe they'll play a Shrek DVD on a loop with the Korean subtitles. |
I can't stop laughing at this post, because my old school lobby played Finding Nemo with subtitles on loop every day. |
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jkamphof
Joined: 12 Apr 2008
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Like previous posters said, It'll just be awful misspelled English signs, movies on loops and maybe some people that speak a smattering of Konglish. I forsee a rise in terrible words like, orangie, changie, B-wee (for Vv), etc.
All this'll do is encourage the raft of terrible language skills they already have. I'm already surprised with the amount of times I've had parents tell me that B-wee is the proper pronunciation of Vee and that I must have some weird accent. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| The new apartments near me will have one. Probably will be staffed by eastern Europeans or Filipinos. Another white elephant perhaps, unless people start using it as cheap daycare. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| SHANE02 wrote: |
| It would be like Dead Rising. |
Good one. |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| jkamphof wrote: |
| I'm already surprised with the amount of times I've had parents tell me that B-wee is the proper pronunciation of Vee and that I must have some weird accent. |
How did you avoid the temptation to glass someone like that? |
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Bread
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
| jkamphof wrote: |
| I'm already surprised with the amount of times I've had parents tell me that B-wee is the proper pronunciation of Vee and that I must have some weird accent. |
How did you avoid the temptation to glass someone like that? |
Bweeolence is not the answer. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe they could just make English-immersion space suits. Whenever you want, you can just climb into your own English-immersion zone. The suits could be painted with flags and Konglish expressions like 'Only English zone' and could come with various related toys. That way every family could have an English-immersion zone in their own home. |
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