Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Ethan Allen Hawley]

It'd be really nice to see a lot of locations in Korea added to this map this year.

http://campaigns.gofossilfree.org

Have you talked with your Korean and expat coworkers about the idea of crowd-source funding solar panels for your hagwon, school, or college to get it free of the nuclear and oil dependency?

The sooner we take that first step towards the future, the sooner we start to lessen the ever-increasingly dramatic impact of our first world life-styles on the generations that will come after the students we teach these days.

How about starting with just a few conversations to see what you can achieve? If it's best left to another person, place, or time, then that's okay; but, "nothing ventured, nothing gained."

Finally, we, as expats from already developed countries, owe it to the more recently developed Korea, and also the still developing nations, to help Korea continue in its move towards use of sustainable, renewable power technology. As educated professional communicators, let's use that power of the personal we all possess to help our coworkers and then managers and then CEOs think through the exciting opportunity we all have of being on the leading edge of this important new technology!

[le-paul]

yeah, Ill bring it up in the next teachers meeting

[julian_w]

Hey, that's a great idea. That's that idea from 350.org, right? Their leader guy Bill McKibbon is a true modest hero. Here's a recent clip of him talking about all this; might be a bit intense for the average Korean coworker unless they have flawless English, but it's really worth a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOOjbTaqVC0

I love that he doesn't oversimplify, nor soften the challenge; this is not just about encouraging people to up their recycling efforts. He's an author and a university lecturer and he's not holding back:

"It makes no sense to 'green' the campus without also greening the portfolio."

I like the way he links the divestment plan with the effects on apartheid-era South Africa. I grew up in a NZ where my friends' big brothers were coming back from fighting on the streets over essentially "divesting" from the rugby-playing relationship with SA. A recent documentary strongly underlined the fairly immediate effectiveness of all those actions on those in SA.

[julian_w]

This is probably a little more accessible for the Korean co-workers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96AKQhQkjMU

It also presents a great model, or example, for the kind of video clips teachers could make with students. Teachers could have students prepare brief statements - of three sentences? - about how they want their school to be powered by solar, or, at the least, how they feel about the impact of fossil fuel and nuclear on the environment.

[julian_w]

Woah, here we go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl8svpYypwE

[comm]

If we wanted to support "sustainable, renewable power technology" we'd be encouraging them to build new nuclear reactors.

[Squire]

[rollo]

Thank you mr. Hawley for so brllantly seeng the path so clearly. You are not here just to teach englsih but to bring enlghtenment.

so! Take up the whtemans burden.

I am sure that f you really smpilfy it the Koreans can understand this.


Oh! Korea was usng cannon on armored ships, printing books, while your ancestors were painting their butts blue and playing soccer with human skulls.

[Ethan Allen Hawley]

[quote="Squire"]

[Ethan Allen Hawley]

Rollo,

Woah; please relax with the rhetoric there.

My original point said nothing of cultural superiority. It is interesting to me if that is the way you read it, because that is not at all what I intended, and I cannot see how anyone could have read it that way, ie. you have no need to be offended. I am trying here to challenge white westerners, not to insult local Koreans.

My point was that western, and so-called "developed" countries (in terms of industry and economies) have afforded citizens the benefit of that technology, but at the expense of the rest of the world.

One way to pay some of that decades of benefit back is to help move the progress into the newest power technologies forward, and thereby in turn ultimately reduce the effects that climate change will bring. That will further help to both democratize power, and avoid any future dangers associated with centralized power sources. And besides, it's not like simply talking about the possibilities is a large challenge or a difficult feat for any of us anyway.

[rollo]

Amazing!! You went to college? Well go for it. Much more important that you do that than that old teachng job they are paying you to do.

Forgive me please i snorted some milk through my nose when i read the response.

Good stuff though. the Democratize was awesome.

Please I missed the part where a nation of electrcal engineers does'nt already know about ths stuff.

Carry on , you are dong great work.

[lithium]

[atwood]

[Weigookin74]

After a hearty school lunch, I'd say everyone in the school has enough natural gas to take care of most of our schools energy needs. I'll fart out a suggestion at the next teacher's meeting....

[lemak]