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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject: Job Opp. in NORTH KOREA- Would you take it? |
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English Language Teacher Developer (North Korea)
Based in Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, a leading university in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, and part of a team of three English Language Teacher Developers...
Organisation: BRITISH COUNCIL
Salary: �24,877 a year plus benefits
Date posted: 22 Jan 2007
Closing date: 7 Feb 2007
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/browse/education/tefl/vacancy-1257660.html
Can you imagine putting this work experience in your resume? You'll be the most sought after teacher in South Korea.
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yes
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Yes.
it sounds better than the job I applied for in Equatorial Guaenie (bugger the spelling) and the desert of Libya
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How many blind ESL instructors do you know |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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North Korea is willing to pay more than South Korea. 
South needs to keep up with the North. |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
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How many blind ESL instructors do you know |
They don't want you to see anything that they don't want you to see. North Korea is very secretive state.  |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| ChuckECheese wrote: |
North Korea is willing to pay more than South Korea.
South needs to keep up with the North. |
A lot more.
They'd probably be throwing in dinner and nightly disco too.
Like,where else are you gonna go?
What would you do on your day off in Pyongyang though?You wouldn't be able to go off on your own.you possibly wouldn't even have access to the local currency. |
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goodgood
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Seriously, that is AMAZING! If I were qualified, I'd be applying right now instead of writing this. What a bizarre opportunity. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Not a chance. |
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Missile Command Kid
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Call me crazy, but I don't want to have anything to do with a nation that systematically tortures, rapes, and murders its own citizens for political reasons, nor a nation that keeps its people in abject poverty while the stark raving mad leadership enjoy Western luxuries, not to mention abundant amounts of food. And let's not even get into the issue of North Korea kidnapping foreign nationals and holding them against their will for God knows how long. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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5 months -- no sweat. What an opportunity. One year would be like prison though.
A friend of mine who did a stretch in the peace corps told me about a friend of hers who was working in north korea for some aid group. He really misses the place.
do gooders.... |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Missile Command Kid wrote: |
| Call me crazy, but I don't want to have anything to do with a nation that systematically tortures, rapes, and murders its own citizens for political reasons, nor a nation that keeps its people in abject poverty while the stark raving mad leadership enjoy Western luxuries, not to mention abundant amounts of food. And let's not even get into the issue of North Korea kidnapping foreign nationals and holding them against their will for God knows how long. |
You're not crazy in my books- I agree wholeheartedly. This is also why I wouldn't teach in China. |
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Trevor
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Um, then I s'pose you wouldn't want to work in North America either.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5390658.stm
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| Call me crazy, but I don't want to have anything to do with a nation that systematically tortures, rapes, and murders its own citizens for political reasons, nor a nation that keeps its people in abject poverty while the stark raving mad leadership enjoy Western luxuries, not to mention abundant amounts of food. And let's not even get into the issue of North Korea kidnapping foreign nationals and holding them against their will for God knows how long. |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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Arar has subsequently extorted 11.5 million dollars from the Canadian government.
He looks pretty healthy in that picture. For 11.5 million I would go to Syria and let them torture me for a year, if I come out of it that well.
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: |
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Arar has subsequently extorted 11.5 million dollars from the Canadian government.
He looks pretty healthy in that picture. For 11.5 million I would go to Syria and let them torture me for a year, if I come out of it that well.
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I wouldn't. He's probably mentally screwed up for life. Imagine having to carry those memories for the rest of your life. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| I'd take a car-battery to the *beep* for a cool million. Anything beyond that -- I'll pass. Some things are beyond what can be bought and paid for. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| here's a link to a guy who worked in Pyeongyang in the 1980s. Interesting read. Very bitter towards the end and understandably so. |
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