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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject: Why do some Koreans never grow up? |
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Look at the shopping trolley in the centre of the photo to the left of the cleaning harlmony. That white thing in the shopping trolley is a grown woman being pushed around by her husband. It was too early in the day for them to be drunk.
On Friday I confiscated two little toy cars from two high school girls who were racing them across their desk in the middle of a lesson. Somehow I just can't picture that happening in the West. I really have to try teaching in the West just to see if 17-year-old girls would race toy cars across their desks in the middle of a lesson.
Sometimes living and working here is just a laugh, isn't it? |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes. Also, I'm very glad you got a pic. I usually don't have my camera with me, or I'm too slow in getting it out, or I'm too shocked to react in time to get the money shots. You should've gone up to them with the cam running in vid mode and said, "Iiiiihn-tuuuuuuh-byuuuuuuuuuuuuuu taaaaaaaaaah-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim. Ahhhhhhhhh-joooooooooooo-muuuuuuuuuh-niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, shyuuuuuuuuuuuuuh-peeeeeeeeng kaaaaa-tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay-yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh? Yo." |
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inthewild
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Growing up is way overrated. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn, and I thought it was a 10-year-old boy. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Countdown to Homer. 10...9...8... |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Who cares..
I still do stupid things like that, it isn't hurting anyone..
chill out a bit, it is just having fun |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| That white thing in the shopping trolley is a grown woman being pushed around by her husband. |
Uh, maybe they were just having a bit of spontaneous, on-a-lark sort of fun? Of course, that might not meet with the approval of the serious scholars and academics who frequent this board.
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On Friday I confiscated two little toy cars from two high school girls who were racing them across their desk in the middle of a lesson. Somehow I just can't picture that happening in the West. I really have to try teaching in the West just to see if 17-year-old girls would race toy cars across their desks in the middle of a lesson.
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I do recall that at my high school, ramming other kids into the lockers was considered a meaningful social gesture. As was covering them with shaving cream during "frosh week".
And one time we all told this guy that we'd pick him up at 7:00 PM to go to the lake, the plan being that he'd wait for us but we'd never show up.
Then there was the time a bunch of my buddies took hammers and smashed in the windows of a car belonging to a guy they didn't like.
Yes, sometimes I do miss the maturity and thoughtfulness of North American high school students. |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do some Koreans never grow up? |
Because they don't get much of a childhood. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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So are you saying that ALL Westerners are mature and grown-up?
I've seen plenty of adult Westerners who act pretty childish. Not to mention other nationalities as well. Koreans do not have a monopoly on this. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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On the one hand, computer games is by itself creating whole new generations of adult children.
On the other hand, my young students are way too responsible compared to the carefree adolescents back home: the pressure to get into a good university makes Korean teenagers work so seriously at it that those on the medicine and sciences track are mature before their years, little career-minded workers. |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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And Yu Bum Suk is all grown up and mature  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Somehow I just can't picture that happening in the West. I really have to try teaching in the West just to see if 17-year-old girls would race toy cars across their desks in the middle of a lesson.
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I used to struggle to define 'maturity' to my high school students back home. Finally I stumbled on one that seemed to work. Maturity is knowing the difference between when it is time to work and when it is time to play.
I once had to stop a lesson and go see what was causing the distraction to normally good kids. One kid had caught a fly, got a strand of hair from a long-haired girl, tied a noose in the hair and was 'walking' his fly. I can guarantee you that immaturity is not an ethnically-related phenomenon. |
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Prince Frog
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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Let's not forget about the wonderful life of college frat houses. They are certainly prone to mature behavior.
The drunk fests and beer bongs are especially germane. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| That white thing in the shopping trolley is a grown woman being pushed around by her husband. |
Uh, maybe they were just having a bit of spontaneous, on-a-lark sort of fun? Of course, that might not meet with the approval of the serious scholars and academics who frequent this board.
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On Friday I confiscated two little toy cars from two high school girls who were racing them across their desk in the middle of a lesson. Somehow I just can't picture that happening in the West. I really have to try teaching in the West just to see if 17-year-old girls would race toy cars across their desks in the middle of a lesson.
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I do recall that at my high school, ramming other kids into the lockers was considered a meaningful social gesture. As was covering them with shaving cream during "frosh week".
And one time we all told this guy that we'd pick him up at 7:00 PM to go to the lake, the plan being that he'd wait for us but we'd never show up.
Then there was the time a bunch of my buddies took hammers and smashed in the windows of a car belonging to a guy they didn't like.
Yes, sometimes I do miss the maturity and thoughtfulness of North American high school students. |
But that's what I love about and have to laugh about Korea. In Canada those girls would be off in their car somewhere smoking pot. Here to have fun or be a bit naughty people resort to such immaturity. Riding around in a shopping trolley is something people would only do when smashed drunk.
Like others, I blame it a lot on deprived childhoods and PC-bangs, too. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| You're talking out of your ass. The particular act was immature, but it's hardly indicative of Korean maturity overall. |
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