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| Do you care more about global/world events/issues nowadays? |
| Yes, more so now that I'm living living overseas |
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| No, less actually now that I'm living overseas, more disconnected and liking it |
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| About the same as before. I was a politics/news junkie back home. |
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| Not at all. What the *beep* am I doing on the 'current events' forum? must be bored. |
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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: Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:03 am Post subject: has living overseas made you think more about global issues? |
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I've found that in my years overseas I simply don't care about world events, in fact, one benefit of living in a non-english country is being able to so easily tune out advertising and news.
I'm surprised at this 'current events' forum, how several of you seem to breathe this stuff. Have you always or has living in Korea sort of increased your interest in it somehow?
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Have you always or has living in Korea sort of increased your interest in it somehow?
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Not really. I've always been interested in global issues, and the only change has been that I now pay way more attention to Korean issues, and slightly less to Canadian issues, than I did before coming here.
Interestingly, though, when I'm back in Canada, I don't make any significant effort to keep up on Korean issues, besides what gets reported in the Canadian papers. I usually have to catch up on Korean news when I get back here. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Unless its when and where my next Starbucks coffee is going to come or my next Mcdonald's hamburger, I'm not concerned. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:09 am Post subject: |
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Some of us were always very interested in anc competent in world affairs before living abroad; it is one of the reasons we travelled, studied, worked abroad.
On the other hand, there are a large number of people who seem to believe that simply by living abroad they become instant experts in world affairs, instant experts in whatever country's history where they might live. Being proud of oneself for living abroad is one thing; but claiming this kind of expertise is undue. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: |
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I worked in Korean public schools for nearly four years. That means I did 16 hours of work per week and certainly read a great deal more than would otherwise have been the case, but I don't think living overseas per se affected me at all in this regard. I regret not reading more, but I also filled my spare time with private tuition and girlfriends.  |
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