Korean Job Discussion Forums

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I have this one girl, about 11 years old, and one class she sketched me. It was dead on. Even down to my bad shaving job. Whoa. I took the paper from her. She started to apologize for not doing what she was told. "No, no, this is good, Sue. Really good. Let me buy it from you." I threw all the coins I had in my pocket (enough to splurge on the deluxe helping of dukppoggi). At the end of class she tried to return the money. But I refused. Of course word got around and now all my kids are trying to sell me their sketches, which are mostly stick figures or piles of ddung with my name written underneath.

Got any kids with great talents?

The Hierophant · Joined: 13 Sep 2005

That's awesome! You should frame it. It might be worth something some day, a Kim Min-Soo original Smile

I havn't seen any outstanding talents from my kids so far. But one of the boys at my hagwon was slashed four times in the skull with a box-cutting knife by another kid at his elementary school and still made it to the hagwon at 4:30 that very day, stitches and all (and without so much as an 'ouch'). So, no points for talent, but partial credit for super-human endurance Smile

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

One of my year 2 kids last year plays the piano awesomely for a seven year old (western age) kid. I got tickets to see him play two songs in front of a big band last Xmas and was blown away.

Other than that, all my kids are geniuses, or so their mothers say Laughing

poet13 · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject:

I have a kid who can suck a gob of spit at least 18 inches long back into his mouth. Does that count?

faster · Joined: 03 Sep 2006

I once met a 2nd grader with perfect English who could also recite pi to 100-some digits.

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Lizara · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Location: Seoul

I had a kid who could write with his right hand while simultaneously colouring with his left hand. No wonder he was always the first one finished. Sadly, his parents moved him to another hagwon Sad

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

I've taught some kids who would memorize entire stories, up to maybe as many as 500 words. The Korean teacher would make them do this, but it was less impressive when they couldn't answer basic questions about the story.

joeyjoejoe · Joined: 24 Sep 2006

i have an eight year old who stood up in class one day, put his backpack on his stomach, cried "teacher! me robot" and proceeded to to one of the best robot dances i've ever seen.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

blynch · Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Location: UCLA

Oreovictim · Joined: 23 Aug 2006

Man, what is it with Korean kids who like to draw dung?

Talents? One of my young students comes to school in his Tae Kwon Do outfit. Would you believe me if I told you that he's already a black belt? I kid you not!

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

One of my students is a whiz on the fingerboard(like a skateboard for fingers). We normally take a 2 minute break each class to watch him. He also always takes candy to class to give out to me and classmates. All in all he kicks ass.

stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

Its kind of hard to describe but i had one kid at my hagwon who could actually lift his left leg over and behind his head. And he could do that standing up on the other leg.

academically there obviously a lot of gifted kids but you dont see stuff like the above everyday.