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mehamrick
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Location: South Korea
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 Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: Banned sites at school |
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| So I come into my lovely public school to relax for a day before starting vacation again.. Fire up the ole computer hit the www.google.com and get the friendly korean waving at me saying were sorry but you are SOL and can't visit us anymore.. Whats up with that.. I can go to google.ca .kr .au are the schools hating on the US now or what? I am in Changwon by the way... What's it like in your school? |
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gsxr750r
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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Naver and Daum don't want to lose control of the Korean search audience.
This is not a democracy.
Can you use yahoo? |
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mehamrick
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah I can use yahoo.. and I can use google Korea Canada Australia and the UK.. just doesn't work for the origional.. I just found it strange the would do one but not all of them.. then again nothing really makes sense how they do things to begin with. |
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mehamrick
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Ohhh and it gets better.. I pulled up the www.iht.com asia region. Tried looking at the Korean paper no problem tried pulling up the Japanese paper blocked... Amazing..  |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Must be your computer. I can access both Google and the Japanese paper just fine. |
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mehamrick
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Let me clarify.. At home I can access just fine.. At school they are blocked by the school system ... |
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gsxr750r
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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You mean you can't click on "Google In English?"
I can't seem to get the same search preferences in Google Korea. Maybe that's what it's about -- to keep students from pulling up bad photos.
Heck, it's kind of dumb. All they have to do is go to a popular Korean site like www.passo.co.kr and click on the motorcycles link. Then go down and click on the racing girls link. |
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mehamrick
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| ok. so back from lunch.. and decided to read up on some world news. ummmm wrong.. foxnews gone.. cnn gone.. is it just my education district or is it all of the schools?? |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| My Gyeonggi-do tech high school has Yahoo blocked on my computer (not on the computer of the Korean teacher who sits next to me in the teachers' office...) I have no trouble accessing Google or MSN, etc., however... |
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Homer
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:06 am Post subject: |
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Well at least thats good news! 
As for the internet limitations...they can be annoying! Perhaps you could ask your supervisor why google is blocked...he will then tell you the i-provider is blocking it at which point you might be dead in the water. If he tells you it is the local IT guy...you may have something to work with.
Then again...reading the news at work might not be a part of your teaching duties... |
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