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Maybe a strange question but here goes.

[DaHu]

I've never heard of any place teaching adults how to swim.

[joeteacher]

Actually, most if not all, public swimming pools offer lessons. Though, it may be very hard to find one who will teach in English. Maybe a fellow weigookin?

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[quote="joeteacher"]Actually,

[Charlie Bourque]

Sort of off-topic here, but... have any of you noticed how barely any Koreans swim? I grew up off the coast of New-Brunswick, Canada, and the beaches are always packed and there's always loads of people in the water. By comparison, the water is Jeju is georgeous, yet barely anyone ever gets in. Furthermore, I only know one Korean that can actually swim - not just doggypaddling, but really swim. Everyone else just stands in knee-deep water with most of their clothes on. What gives?

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[kris.seoul]

I am swimming instructor offering private lessons in Seoul. If you are interested, you may contact me.


www.swimminginseoul.webs.com

[madoka]

[yodanole]

In my hometown in Florida, there is a privately owned and operated swimming park centered around a spring. The mouth of the spring is about 20' in diameter and about 45' deep. There is a diving platform. Every year, and I do mean every year, there is a newspaper account of a young, teenage male drowning in that spring. And every year there is this same snippet. The "Floridian" interviews his cousin, who says; "I don't know why he dove in there, he didn't even know how to swim". These young men always look like the folks in Madoka's upper picture.

There are also always accounts of drownings outside the park, in the lake created by the spring, of cave divers. They are always tourists, but they look like the folks in Madoka's lower picture. A little more tragic perhaps if only because there are often multiple drownings. Oh, and the chalkboard messages they leave. "Tell my wife I love her.

Either way, it's another way to "thin the herd". It's tragic, but most of our mothers warned us not to play in traffic. I guess mom can't think of eeverything.

To paraphrase Madoka:
Dogs like to swim, cat don't. The really interesting question is why?

[everything-is-everything]

[jfromtheway]