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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 4:26 am Post subject: "Famously unfriendly to expatriates" |
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Inadequate foreign schools
It is widely admitted that Korean society has many miles to go before creating a comfortable environment for foreign residents. From the near absence of health services to communication problems with local citizens and the lack of educational facilities, the nation remains famously unfriendly to expatriates in spite of its ubiquitous slogan to emerge as a regional business hub.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/05/10/200405100010.asp |
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gomurr
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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| What a croc of horse puckey. Yeah they will build these foreign schools but the students will be 99.9% made up of rich Korean kids (1-2 token white/black kids). Better off upgrading they're own existing education system and make an effort to put it on par with at least the U.S. |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Location: not there yet...
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| gomurr wrote: |
| Better off upgrading they're own existing education system and make an effort to put it on par with at least the U.S. |
Then they'll at least be able to produce students who know the difference between they're and their  |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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ooohhhh!! Sounds like fighting/trolling words! They're and their!
Let's... get..... ready..... to............... rumble! |
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Mankind
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| In this regard, the government decision to establish a foreign school offering classes from kindergarten to high school levels in Yongsan, downtown Seoul, is more than welcome. |
I work for these people. I'm actually helping set this place up.
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| What a croc of horse puckey. Yeah they will build these foreign schools but the students will be 99.9% made up of rich Korean kids (1-2 token white/black kids). |
In answer to your statement. Wrong. It's being designed to be mainly foreign students. There is only one school in Korea that does that now. By using that same model but being in Seoul, were attracting a lot of investors.
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: "Famously unfriendly to expatriates" |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
Inadequate foreign schools
It is widely admitted that Korean society has many miles to go before creating a comfortable environment for foreign residents. From the near absence of health services to communication problems with local citizens and the lack of educational facilities, the nation remains famously unfriendly to expatriates in spite of its ubiquitous slogan to emerge as a regional business hub.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/05/10/200405100010.asp |
Wow it is good to see some honesty coming out of that newspaper.  |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Most Koreans are not allowed to attend foreign schools. |
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jurassic5
Joined: 02 Apr 2003
Location: PA
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| Most Koreans are not allowed to attend foreign schools. |
or do you mean most koreans do not want to pay out the ass for the foreign schools? i know native korean students attend the Seoul American School on yongsan base. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| jurassic5 wrote: |
| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| Most Koreans are not allowed to attend foreign schools. |
or do you mean most koreans do not want to pay out the ass for the foreign schools? i know native korean students attend the Seoul American School on yongsan base. |
Isn't there some sort of law that forbids Korean citizens from attending "foreign" schools within Korea? I had heard that there is, but that exceptions are made for the children of diplomats, those Korean children who had spent x number of years living outside Korea for whatever reason, and perhaps others.
Regarding payment, I have no doubt that there would be more than enough wealthy parents willing to pay whatever it took to get there kids in SAHS or somewhere similar, were money the only issue. |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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I went to the International School of Kuala Lumpur, and there were few to no Malays in the school. The only ones that did had excellent connections (ie a daddy on the supreme court).
If you go to Bangkok, though, there's tonnes of "international" schools, and they can't all be admitting foriegners. Letting local students in has something to do with what organization the school is accredited by. Since the tution was $USD 15 K a year, most private individuals couldn't afford it anyway. Just people who's companies paid for it. |
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