Korean Job Discussion Forums

[billinkorea]

I deal with mainly elementary/primary students and so have problems with telling them their parents are wrong about Korea being the only country with 4 seasons! What do you do?

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Lie to them. Coddle them just like their teachers do. Your just asking for it if you tell them the truth. I've seen people fired over things like this.

[trevorcollins]

Don't rock the boat.
You're here to keep everyone happy and get paid.
There are certain topics in Korea that are intractacbe. No compromising whatsoever.
"You want the truth, You can't handle the truth"
Foreigners can't use chopsticks, Korea has the most perfect weather, Dokdo is Korean, East Sea, Korea has the spiciest and best food in the world. Discussing these topics here with many people here is like talking to a robot. Disagreeing will cause the program to malfunction and the proverbial shit to hit the fan.
Just apply the same response as you would with a crazy person and nod and smile and be agreeable.

[billinkorea]

Which do you drop?

This is the dumbest idea ive evercome across!
Ohhh theres no autumn in Scotland it just goes cold!(almost true!), Ahh no such thing as Paris in the Spring, New York ahh its always ............what the f would you say i really dont want to upset these kids perfect han education but this is nonsense! I might as well stand aside and let them call speak Elvish(not sure how its spelt). Its a pointless education when we let this pass

[keithinkorea]

I always tell them that the composer Vivaldi 'invented' the four seasons and since then we've had them all round the world.

Ok it's a crap semi-joke but it does get the point across.

I told one of my Princess Diana jokes earlier in to one of my best students and he said it wasn't funny at all He thought it was sick! It was the Lada one....Maybe it was my delivery?

But then he did spend most of his life in the states and I dont think 'friends' even slightly funny.

[Hater Depot]

I spent a class hour once teaching a middle-school lesson on weather, and definitely taught them that every country has four seasons. No repercussions. The kids were pretty amazed though.

[billinkorea]

I teach elementary or primary, its a bit different from expand someones mind middle school? Just my opinion but it i think sending them home with belifs contradicting their parents is a touchy subject. Im glad im not in the uk dealing with slightly more contreversial issuues in the 6-13 yrs old class room cos i guess there will be techers of tougher issues of what is ok to correct.

[jajdude]

I've wished I could introduce them to some Koreans who have lived abroad, or some smarter ones, like scientists, but alas the idea persists.

[Qinella]

I don't think Korea has 4 distinct seasons. I didn't notice a Spring at all. I got here in March, froze my ass off until mid April or later, and then it immediately become hot hot hot. Where I moved from, North Carolina, we had a Winter with a nice Spring seguing its way into Summer as I left. Here it went from fricking freezing to hellaciously hot.

Tell your students that!

[pet lover]

All of our elementary and middle school kids get taught that all countries have four seasons. What's REALLY funny is that when we celebrate Cinco de Mayo (no idea why, but we do), my co-worker then got quite involved in telling them that the hot pepper they are used to eating is from Mexico and that Korea didn't always use hot peppers in practically all their food--it's not traditional. The Korean teachers even translate that--just the way he says it. Again, no flack from parents.

[sheba]

Yea aparetnly spring was a bit screwed up this year... winter lasted a lot longer then usual. I was here in March also and it snowed...

I guess spring is the time where the trees go from black sticks to growing leaves.

Did anyone else notice the trees are black?

[pet lover]

On another note, my boss told me yesterday that according to the lunar calendar, fall is here. Yay! I guess that explains the much cooler nights we've been having.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[just because]

In korea there are 5 seasons

Dec-mar - frigging crazy cold season
Arp-May - yellow dust season
Jun-Jul- piss down rain season
Jul-Aug - sweat your balls off season/typhoon season
sep-Nov - pleasently cool season(the only nice time of the year)

[pet lover]

So for women, that would be what? Sweat your breasts off in July/August???