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Teaching in North Korea.
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Chaparrastique



Joined: 01 Jan 2014
PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:36 am    Post subject: Teaching in North Korea. Reply with quote
Apparently this is what you can expect if you opt for a job in the DPRK. Interesting post:

http://www.businessinsider.com/teaching-computer-science-in-north-korea-2014-1?op=1
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caribmon



Joined: 26 Oct 2009
PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for posting
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
And an American computer science graduate at that.
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ed4444



Joined: 12 Oct 2004
PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here is a recent BBC program about that University.

http://youtu.be/7JRtFyLiOnE
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bluelake



Joined: 01 Dec 2005
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A friend of mine has taught there the past couple years.
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Chaparrastique



Joined: 01 Jan 2014
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
bluelake wrote:
A friend of mine has taught there the past couple years.


I'd be interested in such a job myself, but I wonder how much freedom they allow you.

Do they allow you to go hiking in the countryside for example? Carry an slr camera and lens?
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chaparrastique wrote:
bluelake wrote:
A friend of mine has taught there the past couple years.


I'd be interested in such a job myself, but I wonder how much freedom they allow you.

Do they allow you to go hiking in the countryside for example? Carry an slr camera and lens?


You would have a secretary at least in the office assisting you. As for any place outside you would be accompanied. No question.

There was a book written about this 5 or so years ago. A comic information book written by a Canadian who worked on their computer systems.
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Weigookin74



Joined: 26 Oct 2009
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why would anybody help that regime?

http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-prison-camps-2013-9#in-a-country-of-24-million-people-up-to-200000-have-reportedly-disappeared-into-brutal-concentration-camps-found-throughout-the-country-1

That computer science guy must not have a conscience. Sanctions should be tightened and the screws turned on that regime. There is no way ever, I would support that evil regime!!
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Weigookin74 wrote:
Why would anybody help that regime?

http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-prison-camps-2013-9#in-a-country-of-24-million-people-up-to-200000-have-reportedly-disappeared-into-brutal-concentration-camps-found-throughout-the-country-1

That computer science guy must not have a conscience. Sanctions should be tightened and the screws turned on that regime. There is no way ever, I would support that evil regime!!


Good point actually
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bluelake



Joined: 01 Dec 2005
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chaparrastique wrote:
bluelake wrote:
A friend of mine has taught there the past couple years.


I'd be interested in such a job myself, but I wonder how much freedom they allow you.

Do they allow you to go hiking in the countryside for example? Carry an slr camera and lens?


From the BBC documentary, it sounded like, for the most part, the foreign faculty don't leave the campus. Although my friend uses FB from there, I never ask him questions that might put him in an awkward situation.
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Hokie21



Joined: 01 Mar 2011
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You ever get the urge to send him messages like "The Eagle has landed! The Eagle has landed!"
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bluelake



Joined: 01 Dec 2005
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hokie21 wrote:
You ever get the urge to send him messages like "The Eagle has landed! The Eagle has landed!"


I'd prefer to not hear about him getting lined up against a wall to join Uncle Jang...
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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's not just him that would be put in danger. The people that are in charge of accompanying him and looking after him could be put in serious jeopardy
by any shenanigans. Actually the wouldn't have a congressman to look after them and keep them from dying in a gulag.
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Hokie21



Joined: 01 Mar 2011
PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
young_clinton wrote:
It's not just him that would be put in danger. The people that are in charge of accompanying him and looking after him could be put in serious jeopardy
by any shenanigans. Actually the wouldn't have a congressman to look after them and keep them from dying in a gulag.


You sure you guys aren't up North? You both seem very serious.
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Chaparrastique



Joined: 01 Jan 2014
PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Weigookin74 wrote:
Why would anybody help that regime?

That computer science guy must not have a conscience.



How are you ever going to change the regime unless you engage with it? More and more isolation just further entrenches and polarizes.

Those teachers are a window to the outside world, a lever that can have a positive effect on the future generation.
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