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[Koreabound2004]

Do you have salespeople coming in trying to sell you everything from credit cards to toothbrushes at your desk?

They are so persistent and pesky, no shame in their game....one is harrassing my coworker right now, he left the staff room, and she is chasing him and whining about why he should get a Citibank card.

This is one of those days where I am glad I can't speak the language. They don't bug me too often, but sometimes they do!

This is a thing that annoys me, if its not students/teachers looking at everything on my desk, I've got people trying to sell me crap...no privacy.

End of week rant....TGIF!!!

[crazylemongirl]

yeah I see them from time to time. It doesn't bother me until they start selling dried squid and leaving samples for me to try on my desk

[manlyboy]

At my first hagwon, we had some stuff stolen from the foreign teachers room a number of times. I strongly suspect that one or two of those salespeople were coming in to the place less to sell something and more to scope out whatever was ripe for the pickin'.

[pet lover]

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[captain kirk]

Is this happening a lot in Seoul, where you might be (you don't say where you are). In the city there are a lot of people, a lot of whom don't have jobs. And, like the vendors on the subway, vendors making jobs for themselves trying to sell things at your haggie.
Most of the time, down in Ulsan at our haggie, they don't get passed the front desk. Which is separated from the staff area by a wall, so I can't see how many come in. Once it was a nice old guy selling 'nok-cha'/green tea. Four of the haggie teachers, including one foreign teacher, bought. Nokcha is supposedly a 'scholar's drink' so the old guy had picked a good thing to hawk at a haggie, Confucianism and 'being a teacher', and all that.

[TJ]

There seem to be more of these lately. Yesterday one came in selling packets of (12) tooth brushes. A Korean teacher bought a packet, opened it and proceded to give everyone in the staff room a tooth brush. Today we had our first dried squid sales person - God I hate that smell !!!!!!!!!!

[turtlepi1]

Another sad part is the people selling things (like the kleenex (not the credit cards) ) is that the people are often mildly to severely handicapped (mentally or physically) and people buy the items out of guilt.

Might be nice, but guess who collects the money at the end of the day.
Yep same as in the western world. Some leach uses these poor bastards and then takes their money.