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swinewho
Joined: 17 Aug 2009
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 Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:29 pm Post subject: Did anyone get Chuseok gifts? |
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I just got 40,000 worth of vouchers.
NICE!  Looking forward to the 4 day weekend - shame it's not 5 like some schols are getting but I cant complain really! |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I am not aware of anyone getting 5 days off. Everyone that I know is getting 4 days off. |
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joeteacher
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Got about 15kgs of that Korean tea fruity mix stuff. Choseok gifts always remind me of this:
Stacy: Well, don't you want to open your present?
Wayne Campbell: If it's a severed head I'm going to be very upset
Stacy: Open it.
Wayne Campbell: What is it?
Stacy: It's a gun rack.
Wayne Campbell: A gun rack... a gun rack. I don't even own *a* gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?
Stacy: You don't like it? Fine. You know Wayne, if you're not careful, you're going to lose me.
Wayne Campbell: I lost you 2 months ago. We broke up. Are you mental? Get the net!
It's the thought that counts though. My boss is pretty nice to include me. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Harpeau wrote: |
| I am not aware of anyone getting 5 days off. Everyone that I know is getting 4 days off. |
I have 5 days. All I got were some grapes from the parents and some of the rice cakes with the sweet stuff in the middle. They're pretty good, so it's better than nothing. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| 40,000 won? Chump change. I got 200,000 in gift certificates this time around, which is actually a bit low. |
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swinewho
Joined: 17 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| 40,000 won? Chump change. I got 200,000 in gift certificates this time around, which is actually a bit low |
I guess it's because you're a better person that me! |
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travelnguy
Joined: 27 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I get five days off. As for gifts, nothing. I did get many apologies as the Chuseok tissue boxes were being handed out. Apparently, my name did not get put on the list so they didn't have enough. Not sure I'll be able to sleep tonight. |
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weso1
Joined: 26 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Scored a set of some awesome glass lock jars. Pretty cool. Be sure to look for them on the "buy/sell" page in a few months though. Too heavy to ship back and forth. haha. |
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fortysixyou
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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I got a big box of NOTHING.
Not that I mind terribly. Last year it was a spam box set, the year before a shampoo/conditioner box set, the year before wine, and the year before canned tuna.
My K-GF got a 50,000 won Homeplus gift card.
It's no big deal, but we big-noses tend to be overlooked on holidays here. Chuseok, Solnal, and especially Teacher's Day in my experience. |
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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't get anything this year (currently unemployed, woohoo!), but at my first academy I got a huge box of laver. All the Korean and foreign teachers got one, but all the foreign teachers were like, "What am I supposed to do with this?" |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Harpeau wrote: |
| I am not aware of anyone getting 5 days off. Everyone that I know is getting 4 days off. |
Five days here...but that's because my school's "founding day" is on the Wednesday.
No Chusok gifts though...oh well spam and tuna aren't among my favorite things to eat regardless. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| fortysixyou wrote: |
I got a big box of NOTHING.
Not that I mind terribly. Last year it was a spam box set, the year before a shampoo/conditioner box set, the year before wine, and the year before canned tuna.
My K-GF got a 50,000 won Homeplus gift card.
It's no big deal, but we big-noses tend to be overlooked on holidays here. Chuseok, Solnal, and especially Teacher's Day in my experience. |
Yeah. Imagine a school in America hires a few Korean teachers on full-time contracts to teach a full schedule of classes. They work there for about a year, never missing a class and even being gracious about unannounced timetable changes and cancellations etc.....
.....Then Christmas rolls around and the principal gets the old Secret Santa deal going......except any non-American staff member is excluded!!. Nothing for you Johnny-foreigner!!!
Could you imagine? It would inconceivable for that to happen in a western work environment.......yet here in Korea they seem amazed and shocked that we might feel left out come the Chuseok and Sollal gift-giving. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I've never gotten a Chuseok gift at Elementary school nor University. |
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tgrear2008
Joined: 14 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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It's Wayne's World!! Wayne's World!! Party time, Excellent!!!
I LOL'D. Thanks dude! |
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Lazio
Joined: 15 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Being a freelancer and not having an "employer" makes me not to expect anything. Although last year I got gifts from 3 places. None this year. Wife got a huge pack of cow bones and some super expensive make-up stuffs. It is around a million but nothing really useful. |
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