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sconner
Joined: 26 Jan 2006
Location: South Carolina
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 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: Are hogwon owners respected in Korean society? |
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| Just curious, but are Korean Hogwon owners respected by Koreans? There are some who are okay and some who are sleazy. How do they rate? |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: |
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3 words:
Used car salesmen. |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| Do hagwon teachers even have respect in Korea? |
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Natalia
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
3 words:
Used car salesmen. |
You mean that when my boss told me hagwon teachers were considered to be in the top 3% of the population he was lying?!
My illusions have been shattered.  |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| Natalia wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
3 words:
Used car salesmen. |
You mean that when my boss told me hagwon teachers were considered to be in the top 3% of the population he was lying?!
My illusions have been shattered. |
What was he before he bought a hagwon? Did he even finish high school? My former boss was a truck driver. You could tell. |
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Natalia
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| Natalia wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
3 words:
Used car salesmen. |
You mean that when my boss told me hagwon teachers were considered to be in the top 3% of the population he was lying?!
My illusions have been shattered. |
What was he before he bought a hagwon? Did he even finish high school? My former boss was a truck driver. You could tell. |
I don't know what he was before, but he sure as hell thinks he's something pretty special now. I seriously think he believes he is on the same level as a university vice-chancellor.
(I had a rough evening which involved him breathing down my neck and then being unhappy with me for teaching exactly what was in the schedule he had written. I had an advanced grammar book to teach. He came in and said, "This isn't grammar time, this is conversation time. Teach conversation, not grammar."  Then he whacked a few students on the head and stood in the corner for the rest of my class.) |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| Unless they end up with oodles of money, they are considered pretty far down on the food chain, on a par with bar owners and restaurant owners. One of my friends said, "If your kimbap place goes belly up, open a hakwon". |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| 느끼하다 |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Unless they end up with oodles of money, they are considered pretty far down on the food chain, on a par with bar owners and restaurant owners. One of my friends said, "If your kimbap place goes belly up, open a hakwon". |
Damn, and I thought EVERYONE looked up to me. Time for a serious life reevaluation. Or its just time to make oodles of money. |
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