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andrewchon · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject: Chuseok Bonus: What'd u get?

I got vouchers worth... let's say DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP won't be able to get his next load of laundry done with it. However, it is double the Teacher's Day Bonus. What was in your White Envelope?

Gillian57 · Joined: 14 Oct 2008

You got a Chusok bonus? I have been here 7 years and have NEVER gotten a Chusok bonus!

oots · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Taebaek, Gangwon-Do

Chuseok bonus? You lucky bugger,

All I got was bonus classes during exam time and a pile of swine flu kids missing.

No white envelopes here Crying or Very sad

Cohiba · Joined: 01 Feb 2005

Two bottles of French wine and a free trip to Macau next week. However,
I have to do some work in HK after Macau. No such thing as a free lunch.

mj roach · Joined: 16 Mar 2003

W1,000,000. + cooking oil 'set'

countdown - this threa will turn into yet another diatribe on 'racist' 'white' envelopes

byrddogs · Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Location: Shanghai

i got a full week off and a gift set. that is sort of like a white envelope (being paid for not working), right?

Clockout · Joined: 23 Feb 2009

tenchu77491 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009

I got a huge box of Nivea shampoo, lotions, soaps and other products.

oskinny1 · Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Location: Right behind you!

50,000won gift certificate. Tried to get the 1,000,000won but I was told my contract is different. Sad

espoir · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Incheon, South Korea

I just got a gift box.....thankfully it wasn't spam!!

runthegauntlet · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Location: the southlands.

The other two foreign teachers and I each got two bottles of Chilean wine.

All the Korean teachers just got a box of mushrooms. They were pissed... Very Happy

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

Nothing yet this year. In the past, I've gotten Gim (yuck), Vitamin C pills, Ginseng drinks (yuck, yuck), and the like.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

A very nice set of organic (i.e. over priced) shampoo, conditioner and shower gel from my kids' mother (the ONLY privates I do.. I am legal, btw, on F5).

Hmmm my birthday is in 2 weeks, I wonder what she'll get me...

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

Something new for once: a box of fancy 갈국수 noodles from the principal. I don't make half the haul I did when I worked in a small hagwon. I think the teachers in public school have some kind of agreement about not buying each other gifts because there are too many of them.

kabrams · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Location: your Dad's house

You actually get stuff for Chuseok???

Evil or Very Mad