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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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 Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:54 pm Post subject: Help me prove that my boss is an idiot. |
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That should be a good title. I just came into work today and my boss asked me if I knew of a good way to set up the inside of a hagwon so that it looks just like a street in the US, with a really big street scene in place of wallpaper so that people come in and feel like they're really in a different country, or at least to a certain extent.
I told him that I wasn't sure and that I would check here, whereupon him and another girl who works here said "How would people on Dave's know? They wouldn't know!" - which I think is totally wrong. Just another example of how English teachers are often seen as little more than English-speaking cattle with nothing else to offer the workplace.
So. Who knows how to print something like that, and how to get the pictures? |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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You don't have to prove the boss or the kt are idiots....they are doing a fine job by themselves.
As for a good way to set up the inside of a hagwon so that it looks just like a street in the US, use your imagination. Been to NZ, Australia and some of the places could be small town USA.
You've seen movies..what...most movies are made in the U.S....and have street scenes. Nothing is typical....go with what you think. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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You can get "brick pattern" lamanent for the walls.
Use window tinting and "fake" windows every so often.
Painting the floors is the easy/fun part.
Lighting will be the big one, done right it will change the place. Lots of signs (bought in namdeamun or iteawon) with neon or bright glows. People will love them till the get the electricity bill.
Depending on the room/space you've got you can even set up "display areas".. like at a museum. Take a note from restaurants.. put up old pictures of the US in the 50's, that outta do it. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Dude, what would really be fun is if he set up some video projectors on the ceiling and projected moving images on the walls.
Why not make a "road" by laying down a thin layer of fake asphalt or cement of some kind, and grow some grass at the curb? Build a fake house to go over the desk, and put siding and stuff around the entry door so it looks like a house in the USA.
You really need a designer for this. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like the easiest way to take care of the wall is to have a scene painted on it. If you've got students, I'm sure a few are artistically inclined. |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. 
You all rock. |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| If I had the time, the money, and the Korean inclination for wacky projects, I'd paint up the walls (make it a student project) to look like what the Koreans think is a stereotypical small town American street with the doors of the painted shops being doors into classrooms. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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Not only do we rock...
we proved your point! |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:07 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I think you should go for authenticity, real grit.
Burn a few cars, set up a 7-11 "room" that you can rob once in a while, get a few strung out girls looking for their next fix and shoot a student every couple of days.
Welcome to America. |
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| u watch too much tv, pyongshin |
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redbird
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| JacktheCat wrote: |
| If I had the time, the money, and the Korean inclination for wacky projects, I'd paint up the walls (make it a student project) to look like what the Koreans think is a stereotypical small town American street with the doors of the painted shops being doors into classrooms. |
That's a cool idea.
Those mural wallpapers are cool, but they lack one feature that will make it seem more American-- authentic signs, not only street signs like (No parking here to corner on the first Tuesday of each month or during snow days in December, etc.) but commercial signs, too. Of course, you might want to throw in about a dozen signs that say "No Spitting" just to make a point. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:49 am Post subject: |
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| I'm convinced. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| u watch too much tv, pyongshin |
I don't have a TV.
Your American mind tricks do not work on me.
But if I did, I think it would look a little like this:
http://www.boulderdailycamera.com/shooting/28aglnc.html
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Columbine, April 20
Two heavily armed young men, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, storm through Columbine High School and, in a shooting rampage of unprecedented carnage in an American school, kill 15 people, including themselves, and wound 21.
Richmond, Va., June 15, 1998
Quinshawn Booker, a 14-year-old student who is angry at a classmate, opens fire in a crowded high school hallway, wounding a 45-year-old social studies teacher and a 74-year-old Head Start volunteer. Booker pleads guilty to five charges and will remain at a school for troubled boys until he completes its program.
Springfield, Ore., May 21, 1998
Kipland Kinkel, a 15-year-old student, enters Thurston High School with three guns and opens fire in a school cafeteria. He kills one student and wounds 19; another student dies later. His parents are found dead in his home. Kinkel awaits trial.
Fayetteville, Tenn., May 19, 1998
Jacob Davis, an 18-year-old honor student, fatally shoots a classmate in the school's parking lot. The victim was dating his ex-girlfriend. Davis awaits trial.
Edinboro, Pa., April 24, 1998
Andrew Wurst, 14, is arrested for shooting to death science teacher John Gillette in front of students at a middle school graduation dance. Two 14-year-old boys are wounded. Wurst will be tried as an adult.
Jonesboro, Ark., March 24, 1998
Four girls and a teacher are shot to death and 10 others are wounded by Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11. The two boys activate a fire alarm and shoot their victims as they evacuate the building. They are found guilty of murder and committed to a state detention center. Under a controversial juvenile sentencing law, they will be allowed to walk out of jail by their 21st birthdays.
West Paducah, Ky., Dec. 1, 1997
Three students are killed and five wounded while praying in a school hallway. A 14-year-old, Michael Carneal, is arrested and pleads guilty but mentally ill to three counts of murder and six other charges related to the shootings. He was sentenced Dec. 17 to life in prison without possibility of parole for 25 years.
Pearl, Miss., Oct. 1, 1997
Luke Woodham, 16, stabs his mother to death before going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two die, including Woodham's ex-girlfriend; seven others are wounded. Woodham is convicted as an adult in June 1998. He is serving three life sentences.
Moses Lake, Wash., Feb. 2 1996
Barry Loukaitis, 14, walks into algebra class at a junior high school and opens fire with a hunting rifle. The teacher and two students are killed, and one student is wounded. He is convicted in 1997 of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder and sentenced to two life terms without parole.
Winnetka, Ill., May 20, 1988
A mentally ill woman named Laurie Dann steps into a second-grade classroom with two handguns and opens fire, killing a child and wounding five others. Dann flees the school and later kills herself.
San Diego, Calif, Jan. 16, 1979
Brenda Spencer, 16, waits outside the Cleveland Elementary School for the principal to open the school. For 20 minutes, she fired on arriving students and teachers. She killed the principal and school caretaker, and injured nine students between the ages of 6 and 12. She then went home and waited for police to arrive. ". . . I just did it for the fun of it. . . . ," Spencer told police. She was convicted on two counts of murder and is serving two 25-to-life sentences.
April 28, 1999 |
And that ain't even mentioning the last few years. |
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