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fustiancorduroy
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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 Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject: Korea is Slammin'! |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| phoneboothface wrote: |
Let's have yet another giant circle jerk on Dave's in honor of yet another amazing individual.
Yes, I'm jealous. Good work. But thankfully I'm not too far from you and I won't start my own thread about how amazing I am, I'll just reply to others. |
I'm not that jealous. I'm engaged to Hyori Lee and through her I've hooked up privates with celebreties and CEOs and I make 10 million won a month and I have two apartments. One is Daechi-dong and the other in Apgujeong. Oh, and I'm writing over 20 Koreran language books in 20 different languages all this month for over 9 billion won. |
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IanChops
Joined: 19 Mar 2009
Location: Pyeongchon, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| Way to blow your own trumpet. I'm glad to hear that you're doing so well. Perhaps with all that extra cash you could invest in humility tutelage. |
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nyenglish
Joined: 16 Jun 2009
Location: the small peninsula
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:53 am Post subject: Re: Korea is Slammin'! |
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| fustiancorduroy wrote: |
As of next month, I will have been living in Korea for three years, and I must say that Korea is hyper slammin'! Every year, my life here just keeps getting better and better.
Part of this is because my 한국말 is 진짜잘해. That I speak and read Korean has made my life here so much better.
I have a beautiful and intelligent Korean girlfriend (she lived in London, England, for five years, which is where she earned her master's degree) whom I've been dating for two years. In addition to her, I have friends from all over the world. All of them have lived here for many years and speak Korean very well (some of them are fluent), so we always have a great time when we go out.
My jobs just keep getting better and better. Three years ago, I worked at a TOEFL hagwon making decent money. Last year, I worked at the top-ranked foreign language high school in the country. This year I write textbooks for the Korean Army. Between my good salary (3.5 million a month with free housing), the textbooks I'm writing for a major publishing company (I'm getting 10 million won for each book, and I'm writing five of them this year alone), and the other work I do on the side, I'll earn nearly nine-figures this year.
Thanks to my Korean skills and my hard work, I'll have a ton of money saved up by the end of this year. I'm going to use some of that money to get a D-8 visa and open a business (thank you Seoul Global Center for all the free classes you have about doing this). On top of this, I already have a great textbook writing gig lined up for next year (starting pay is 4.5 million a month, with the top earners bringing home more than 6 million a month) and more textbook projects with the publisher I'm working for this year. There's no end in sight for how much success I can have here.
Thank you, Korea, for being a rich-but-still-growing country that has nearly infinite possibilities for the person who takes the time to learn Korean and develop themselves both personally and professionally. I came here a naive 22-year-old fresh out of college, and I'll end up being a semi-retired 30-year-old in just a few more years. |
Thanks for the positivity...all I read on this site are complaints. Good for you and keep updating. |
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eIn07912
Joined: 06 Dec 2008
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| yeah? well... my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. and theyre like, its better than yours. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like a gay old time... |
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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: Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:28 am Post subject: Re: Korea is Slammin'! |
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| fustiancorduroy wrote: |
| Part of this is because my 한국말 is 진짜잘해. That I speak and read Korean has made my life here so much better... have friends from all over the world. All of them have lived here for many years and speak Korean very well (some of them are fluent), so we always have a great time when we go out.... Thanks to my Korean skills and my hard work, I'll have a ton of money saved up... a rich-but-still-growing country that has nearly infinite possibilities for the person who takes the time to learn Korean... |
you got your girlfriend because you speak korean? your foreign friends have a great time together because they all speak korean instead of english? you've gotten your jobs teaching english because you speak korean?
you attribute a lot of your life to speaking korean, not luck and hard work?
anyways, nice to see a wide-eyed twentysomething make a life overseas, as too many just get drunk and blow their money on south east asian holidays |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| Dave's needs a Brag Forum |
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Janny
Joined: 02 Jul 2008
Location: all over the place
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:48 am Post subject: |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| fustiancorduroy wrote: |
As of next month, I will have been living in Korea for three years, and I must say that Korea is hyper slammin'! Every year, my life here just keeps getting better and better.
Part of this is because my 한국말 is 진짜잘해. That I speak and read Korean has made my life here so much better.
I have a beautiful and intelligent Korean girlfriend (she lived in London, England, for five years, which is where she earned her master's degree) whom I've been dating for two years. In addition to her, I have friends from all over the world. All of them have lived here for many years and speak Korean very well (some of them are fluent), so we always have a great time when we go out.
My jobs just keep getting better and better. Three years ago, I worked at a TOEFL hagwon making decent money. Last year, I worked at the top-ranked foreign language high school in the country. This year I write textbooks for the Korean Army. Between my good salary (3.5 million a month with free housing), the textbooks I'm writing for a major publishing company (I'm getting 10 million won for each book, and I'm writing five of them this year alone), and the other work I do on the side, I'll earn nearly nine-figures this year.
Thanks to my Korean skills and my hard work, I'll have a ton of money saved up by the end of this year. I'm going to use some of that money to get a D-8 visa and open a business (thank you Seoul Global Center for all the free classes you have about doing this). On top of this, I already have a great textbook writing gig lined up for next year (starting pay is 4.5 million a month, with the top earners bringing home more than 6 million a month) and more textbook projects with the publisher I'm working for this year. There's no end in sight for how much success I can have here.
Thank you, Korea, for being a rich-but-still-growing country that has nearly infinite possibilities for the person who takes the time to learn Korean and develop themselves both personally and professionally. I came here a naive 22-year-old fresh out of college, and I'll end up being a semi-retired 30-year-old in just a few more years. |
With the exception of the ESL connexion, the fresh-out-of-college bit, and the ghetto-talk (slammin'? what does it mean?), this Opening Post could have been written by me in the mid-1990s. Right down to the UK-educated Korean gf.
Now, while I agree with everyone that it was just horrid of you to post this, I must confess the asshat in me was quite pleased.
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| Dave's needs a Brag Forum |
No need. You see, this entire board became one big unrelenting Brag Forum on 25 May 2004.
Oh how I crave to have my pic-posting priviledges back for just one day. POW! |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:16 am Post subject: Re: Korea is Slammin'! |
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| fustiancorduroy wrote: |
There's no end in sight for how much success I can have here.
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sure there is, hon.
remember the saying, that which goes up, must come down. 
see ya' on the flip side!!  |
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fruitcake
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
Location: shinchon
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:36 am Post subject: Re: Korea is Slammin'! |
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| fustiancorduroy wrote: |
| There's no end in sight for how much success I can have here. |
move over Isaac Durst |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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It's all in the perception, OP. If you think you're doing great, then, well, that's great.
And as someone with a degree in Korean who has been here for over 15 years, I have to say that I get a kick out of people who describe themselves as fluent or near fluent in Korean after only a few years. Classic. Functional, maybe, no more. But again, much like in the wage department, if you think you're doing well, then, well, that's all that counts. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| That says nothing, sounds more like an ego flashing attempt. My friend has a degree in Korean, yet my Korean is further along than hers. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I work at a little hagwon in the country. I'm raking in 1.8 million a month pluss they pay for haff my health ensurence. I live in a great 8-pyung loft above my school. I speek Korean quite well, to. anyonghasayoh. kamsahamniduh. My girlfriend is hotter than august in daegu. She makes good money at a local bar. I've never been there coz she sez I wouldnt like it there. Thank you Korea. Life hear is grate. |
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