Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mayorgc]

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2010/07/korea-no-place-for-young-women-but-about-whom-policy-is-decided-by-old-men.html

It's a very long read.

Anyways, what's taught in schools to the Korean kids? I think in my Canadian Schools, from Gr.7 - Gr. 10, we had specific classes dedicated to the birds and the bees.

Any MS or HS teachers know what goes on in the schools?

A Korean told me

"we learned about frog babies from text books"

[jvalmer]

At my school they have some kind of sexual harassment class and sex education class every year for the last 3 years. Not sure what the content was since it was in class, and I was told to stay at my desk for those 45 minutes and really didn't care.

Things and attitudes change fast in Korea, 10 years ago people wouldn't dare say they were divorced. But now it's accepted. If education authorities and teachers agree on something, they implement it fast and sometimes within months in Korea, unlike back home where it can take years.

[conrad2]

The students must make sure not to be absent the day they lecture on " Soju and Love Motels."

[dumpring]

Must be about as conservative as a catholic school back home like.. "abstinence is the only way to be safe" and a game called "guess what Sodom caught in Thailand"
Oh and hybrid vigour not applying to certain gene pools if the class is taught by an ajeossi.

The soju and love motel class would be interesting.

[CA-NA-DA-ABC]

[conrad2]

At my catholic high schol the sex-ed instructor said "Men, when dating your girls, remember that its ok to swim in the Red Sea, just dont drink from it." True story.

[DorkothyParker]

My KINDERGARTEN has a "where do I come from?" theme class every year. I'm told last year's was horrible and awkward. It involved a WAY too informative educational film and maybe a puppet show.
I'm sad it's scheduled later in the school year this year so I'll be missing it.

Also, I had no sex-ed unit in either my 8th grade or 10th grade health classes in America.

[Globutron]

Me neither. I'm pretty sure I just figured it out with common sense/porn

[peppermint]

Are you guys serious? I went to Catholic school in Canada and we got our first birds and bees lecture in about 4th grade, with squirm inducing reminders throughout junior high. Nothing at all in high school, though I seem to remember hearing about a video of a woman giving birth being shown in some course that I didn't take.

[fugitive chicken]

At my elementary PS, they have 2 naked felt people complete with felt sperm swimming around the boy's legs. When I first got here it was on display in the hallway for a few months for all to see. Then they hung them up in the health classroom.

[nathanrutledge]

We had some outside group come in and set up different stations in the gymnasium. The kids spent most of the afternoon in there rotating between stations. My coteacher and I went looking for our class and watched some of the lectures. They were pretty much what I remember from middle school. The one booth I saw most of was about body image and they had these cartoon-ish drawings of naked people of all shapes and sizes. One of the men had to be swinging 12+ inches of pipe and ALL the kids pointed and laughed at that...

They had another station where they had a big fake vagina and baby... enough said.

In the end, one of my proficient students came up to me and my coteacher and said "Nathan, do you know the difference between gender, sex, and sexuality?" Apparently, they talked about a LOT, even homo/hetero/transgender stuff which was the most surprising to me (as there are no homosexual Koreans, everyone knows that).

[ticktocktocktick]

A few years ago, when I worked in a hagwon, my high level 3rd grade elementary students rolled in one day giggling. When I asked what was going, they told that they'd all learned about the mechanics of sex that day. They'd just arrived from different elementary schools across the city, so I guess it's co-ordinated at least at the city level.

[atomicdeathmonkey]

We had the police come in on the abuse scale of things - quite hilarious actually - i have a video or two of synchronized dancing cops to girls generation and a police mascot sodomizing a pedo with a lantern - it's the only way to deal with them - lunacy !

[bananahammock]

haha I remember my sex ed classes growing up in the USA. The first experience I had was in middle school when they had some people come in to preach about abstinence and we were even given some little business sized cards we signed to help us stay committed to waiting until we were married. lol. Then in my high school health class we discussed STD's, wet dreams, etc. and watched a video of a woman giving birth. Luckily I was out that day What I remember most is my teacher, Mrs. Rowland, was this mean old lady with bluish gray hair that licked her lips when she said "*beep*".

[Xylox]

My sex ed class in grade 8 I think it was, had a super hot teacher that pretty much every dude wanted to bone.

During class, the teacher asked where sperm was produced, and some kid answered "on a girls face"