re:

hey im korean student too. but i think the worst case like you said would not happen, so dont need to worry that much

but you'd better apologize to the boys father sicerely, with explanation about the accident
in detail:to let their parents notice some liability of their kids( the kids might play game with that dictionary right?)

if they comprehend the situation and some of their kid's fault (that they didn't know) they would ...

YOU MUST AGREE

Recently Korea has set the stage for more hatred against foreigners. Lies about pedophiles trying to get there Korean children, and "sex crazed" foreigners, bedding Korean women. Just recently I read koreans in Seoul are being told to confront Korean women when with foreign men.


Korean men are running the Gov. as well as the media, so it seems pretty evident that they would support this hatred toward "Other" men. I think Freud put this...

You ungreatful prat!

Hey!

Australia has been fighting wars in far away countries for over 100 years arse master. We fought for the Empire without being asked and commited troops to more than 6 wars. Don't give crap to the Australian military because we came to the aid of Korea to help save you from Communist oppression and we faught along side you in Vietnam as well. So don't retaliate against Australia when you don't even know if the OP is Australian! Nobod...

SBS Documentary

A recent SBS documentary has apparently left many Korean people with the view that most ( if not all) foreign teachers in Korea are little more than thrill seekers, here to drink as much as they can and ‘get with?as many Korean girls as they can. I presume it doesn’t apply to teachers of the female variety then.

In my opinion, such a portrayal is nothing more than a media marketing ploy to attract viewers and only does damage to the indu...

43% of married women seeing someone other ....

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=34787


AGAIN DAVES ESL CAFE IS ANTI KOREAN! LOOK!!!!

Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:30 am Post subject: 43% of married women seeing someone other ....
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More than 43 percent of 16,947 married women aged between 24 and 35 said they are seeing someone ...

can i say something?

hey im korean highschool student who often visit this site
as im not fluent at english reading this post can be little hard


it seems that you guys are always arguing with the matter of racist&patriots
i've seen this debates for about 2months
let me say something as a third person


in fact, to me some of kim's posts makes my mind really unburdened
when i first came this site to know more informations about "english spectr...

President Kim's Delusion

Read this first it is from the Joong-Ang Daily

"If Mr. Clinton had had one more year in office, the nuclear and missile issues would have been resolved, and an era of peace would have descended upon the Korean Peninsula," said Kim Dae-jung, in an apparent criticism of the administration of George W. Bush, which succeeded Mr. Clinton. "The more I think about it, the more regretful it is."

Feb. 25th, 2005


This is coming from a man ...

For Those Whose Been Refused Service at Restaurants.....

If you've been refused service at restaurants/bar in Korea, I'm sorry.... There's really no excuse for that whatever the reason.... and i know it does happen because the owners told me so when I (korean/american) was in korea this december.... But the reason the owner said they did it wasn't because they were racist against foreigners, but that foreigners have completely different drinking culture as the Koreans.... Koreans, as most of you ...

The Solution

Why is it that when someone foreign says something unliked about Korea the best advice given is to just go home?
Don't you think that is an idiotic statement?

Hey I don't like to see Korean men beating the crap out of their wives, Hey this is not your culture just go home if you can't deal with another persons culture!! Besides women get beat where you come from......

So I suppose I should shut my mouth about it.

Well I won't! I ...

book store list.

Okay your right. I Should at least try and help the quy out. I too have hard a hard time finding good books in Seoul.

Here is a list of book stores from the Seoul Scene web page. Maybe this will help.

JONGNO

Kyobo Book Store (Gwanghwamun Stn. Purple Line 5)
Huge bookstore with an entrance from Gwanghwamun Subway Station. The English department is probably the best in this area for new books. There is also a wide range of ESL...

responding to this idiotic article

Being critical toward old country or country in which your family are from is people's choice.But do it in more productive way. I agree Koreans are not angels even though 50 percent of them believe in christian religion. Korea is not perfect country like the rest of the world. So what is your point?? Prostituion? its oldest job in human cilvilzation. Yes, Korea does have whore houses. Does Korea have problem with Korean mafia, drugs, sex, a...

Was that a coincidence?

According to a Korean news report today, President Roh underwent a double eyelid operation on the fourth of this month. The report said it wasn't to make him look pretty, though. His eyelids were kept falling, according to the report, due to his age or a symptom called blepharochalasis, making him hard to open his eyes and see without having to raise his head high.

Then here we have a news report: ¡°The price of beauty in South Korea,¡± pu...

North American

I just wrote a lengthy post on ths topic on eslcafe and thought I'd post it here for interests sake....


I guess, ultimately, it must suck being from a nation that once used to rule the world and now barely matters on the international scene. And finding proof of your own international irrelevance. Suck it up.[/quote]

Your presumption that I am from England is entertaining. The directionless thinker will always resort to predefined c...

swore i wouldnt respond

i swore i would never respond to any of this. first, as a canadian in korea i do apologize for all the unsavory teachers here. i think i am a good teacher, enjoy my job and work hard at it. i am not here chasing women or getting drunk every night. i came here 3 years ago and am married to a korean girl. no one has ever insulted me or threatened me. if you look for trouble, you can bet it will find you. as bad as some of the foreigners ...

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KH article - Korea tries to imitate Hollywood!

Thought this article was interesting. The KH writer (Seoul Searcher) blasts the Korean penchant for imitation rather than creation. I also wonder what those who are hatching this "Hallyuwood" plot are thinking when they invite Japan/China to get involved. If it looks like it will work, those 2 nations will simply start their own and leave Kimchi-land out in the cold.
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Move over Hollywood, Hallyuwood i...

Well...

I understand that you are simply expressing your opinion, and I respect your right to that opinion. However, from reading several of your posts I can definitely see why people from Eastern cultures would despise you. Let me make this clear, I'm not judging you. All I'm saying is that attitude is a large part of why you probably have so many problems.

For myself, I had a very pleasant experience in the R.o.K. over the course of nearly ...

Calling All Patriotic Koreans: Seoul Searcher Insults Korea And Koreans!

More whiny criticism of South Korea: This time it is by a South Korean who appears bi-weekly in The Korea Herald's "Seoul Searcher" column.

Briefly, he insults the R.O.K. by insisting that the country's on-going development period is allegedly scarred by widespread copying of Japanese and American ideas, lots of intellectual copyright infringement cases, blah, blah, blah, like the nonsense that Canadian unemployable loser wrote here a fe...

Charles Scanlon Of The B.B.C. Is A Loser Whiner!!

The B.B.C.'s Charles Scanlon is the author of an article entitled, "The Price of Beauty in South Korea" in which he insults South Korean cities as being "dreary" and South Korean people as being so vainly obsessed with their looks that they'll run the risk of going under the knife to the nation's alledgedly dangerous surgeons.

Half of all South Korean women are alledged, he writes, to have at least a double eyelid operation by the time ...

Another Korean Relativist in the Neighbourhood

Anti-Intellectual/Anti-Academic K-Boy, you are wrong: I strain to see the good aspects of South Korea on a minute-by-minute basis and can agree that there are many aspects of living in Korea that I enjoy and a few that I even admire. So, do not react so emotionally and immaturely and accuse me of being stupid. You do not know me, and trying to resort to such a juvenile label shows that you can't argue well enough to beat me in a civilized a...

Typical, Typical, Typical

Like i said... All opinions are subjective and you search for negative, you'll only find negatives.... You say, "South Korea has an unacceptably high number of social problems...", then what is an acceptable number of social problem? Is there one?? and what country has 'em? I look here in US and our school violence is rampaging, strong hate still exist rooted in racism and sexual preference, many state law system favors the rich over poor...

Superficial To The Max (Eng/Kor)

South Korea is much worse than Canada and the U.S. with respect to the problems you brought up in your very superficial post, and some well known South Koreans will admit it such as the free lance writer who pens the Seoul Searcher column for The Korea Herald English language newspaper. In fact, this guy is extremely critical of the status quo in South Korea.

You do not do justice to Kor Sux's letter by mindlessly writing that every cou...

Miseducation of KorSux.... I Feel Bad For You....

KorSux... maybe you had bad hagwon and is ruining your experience in Korea... Maybe you live in Seoul and is not use to living in city with population of 12 million... Or maybe you had bad kimchee that made you sick.... What ever your reason is (i would actually like to hear it), if you can't take the good with the bad, go back... You are not tied to anything there... You are not from there, don't have family there, or a lover.... Go back t...

Concerned For Those That Hate Korea (Eng/Kor)

I'm Korean-American (US Citizen)... I use to look at this site while back when I thought about teaching English in Korea for the summer and haven't been on this site for about 2 years... I see it's still the same'ole complaints about the same damn thing and some of you are the same people from two years ago....

I think we can all agree that no society is perfect... They all have the good and the bad... Some of you say you faced racism i...

Give them credit? Like the IMF bailout?

The problem with Korea is "yu gyo", 2500 years of confucianist crap. Until they
get rid of that, they'll never solve any problems. You can't give credit to a
society that's founded on self-serving hypocrisy.

Yu gyo is a set of five rules invented by confucius for a "harmonous society".
Notice that confucius says "and" in all five rules? Korea fucked it up and took
that to mean "over": men *over* women, elder *over* younger, e...

Advice...

I talked to a few people re your friends dilemma and surprisingly, one thing that came out was that to a great extent, it depends on which imm' office your friend goes to, to be harassed/interrogated. The second thing is that there's a fishy pattern involving imm' that your friend needs to look at SERIOUSLY.

The interview itself...
Personally I think your friend should take her passport because it has the other differing kinds of visas ...

Interview at Immigration

A friend of mine was in her school today when immigration showed up today. She has an F-2 but the sponsor is the main center and she was teaching at one of the branch locations. Immigration shot a video of her there and asked the kids if she was their teacher and they all said yes. She claimed that she worked for the main center and was just there that day to observe.

Immigration took her alien card and said that she will have to go ...

Not sure what to do...

Hey,
I'm looking for some advice regarding my situation.

I'm interesting in leaving my school but I'm not sure if I have enough reason enough in immigration's eyes to do so. This is my story.

I'm working at a Hagwon that currently isnt paying its teachers on time. I'm the only teacher who is getting paid the full amount on their stipulated payday. All the other teachers, there are 8, are getting paid small sums over periods of wee...

Interesting comments about divorce in Korea by K-female

I'm online chatting with a Korean female friend. We used to date, but stopped because we had no *spark*, but remained friends. We often chat online about different people we date, etc.

Yesterday we started chatting about the whole ES issue, and she went off on a tangent about divorce in Korea. She said that there was a story out last weekend about the rapidly rising numbers of people seeking divorce in Korea... wish I could remember the...

This ticks me off!!!!

I saw this ad on Dave's today about a company that will verify degree holders for a small fee.

http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/korea/index.cgi?read=14685

I want to ask you, what will you gain from turning your fellow expatriates?
Yes, the next person might not have a degree, but is that for you to decide if they should stay or go?

My answer is no.
The true fault lies with the school and immigration office to do the checking. If ...

When you hear things you don't like

I got pissed off in class the other day. Several of the kids, about grade 5, were constantly swearing in Korean just as part of their little conversation while ignoring me and my attempts to teach something. But when I heard them refer to me in some kind of disparaging way, and one kid said "...sekki" (½ê ³¢... correct spelling?) I flipped. I realized later he said it so casually, I wasn't sure that I was right to feel so insulted. To him it ...

ESL discussion topic: Does

Does "Western" Civilization (as opposed to "Eastern" Civilization) really exist or are they just two sides of the same entity?

Much of education in modern Europe is still heavily tainted with colonial era mythology. For example the absurd claim that Europe is a continent and Asia is another, different continent is utter nonsense. Europe is in fact a peninsula of Asia. A large peninsula, which, like the Arabian and Indian peninsu...

To the nieve Korean nationals KOR and KIM

Here are some links for you which PROVES KOREA DOES HAVE MORAL PROBLEMS REGARDING SEX

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/28/korea.sexoffenders/
These registered sex offenders ARE KOREAN, NOT FOREIGNERS

http://newsbbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1516312.stm

and

http://www.ainews.com/Archives/Story6853.phtml

Of course all the close minded Koreans will refuse to believe these stories, but they are true.
Have a...

HEY KIM

Many Koreans go to Western countries and prosper, why couldn't you? The ones I know never experienced what you did. Because you supposedly experienced racism doesn't give you the right to be a racist, but that's what you are. Why couldn't you make it in those countries anyway? Oh well, you won't be able to go back to those places again. Many of my friends are Korean nationals, Korean-Canadian, Korean-American, Korean-Australian and they do...

Hey Voice

You're just a typical jealous American, who makes me ashamed to be human. I know Americans. I was there for several years. I saw and experienced racism, hates and unfairness myself in America. And I learned more about Americans and Western people while reading what your friends posted on English Spectrum. And that made me ashamed to be human even more. That cleaned most of my remaining good feelings on Americans and Western people out.

I...

You owe the WORLD

KOREAN NATIONALS:
You not only owe the US your freedom, you owe ALL countries who sent people to fight for YOUR freedom between 1950-53. Now I wish no one had helped you. By-the-way, 2000 Koreans died in Vietnam NOT 10000, know the facts. Also, 35000 Americans died for Korea, not 55000. These are well known facts that can be found by doing a SIMPLE web search. Try it out. Besides involvement Vietnam and Iraq what has Korea done for those O...

Tell Me Something I Don't Know

Dummy:

Do you want to meet me and have a fist fight?! I'm 6'1" tall and weigh 190 pounds. I'm getting sick and tired of reading your elementary school-level trash that you apparantly refer to as reasoned arguments. I'll meet you in Seoul, Incheon, Suwon, Busan, Daejeon, you name it. No knives, no nunchucks - just me and you. What do you say?

You do not work for a company and you are not going to Europe next month. It is obvious that y...

OOps, you need more education

See, education does not always change or renovate one person as it pursues. Here's the evidence alive. You see your father got kicked by a Korean army? You crazy? You Japanese. If he really got kicked in his testicles repeatedly you think he will survive? You dumbass don't know? You never got kicked in there? And do you know how many young innocent Korean youths were forced to be drafted by Japanese during Japanese ruling period of 36 years...

Hello, Friend!

Hi,

I have a very strong interest in East Asian Studies, and so I've conducted my own research on various topics related to this field of study for twelve years. You, a typical product of a still developing country, find it incredibly hard to believe that someone could be intrinsically interested in academic subjects as opposed to being involved in them for financial rewards. I'm a scholar by training, and so I'm interested in East Asian...

More Effulence Spewing From The King Of Korean Racists Mouth

Japanese?!!! What kind of drugs are you doing, Kim?!! I most certainly am not a Japanese person: I am an American person who was born in South Korea and moved to the Boston area when I was four years old. If you want, I'll prove it to you.

It's not racist to criticize another nation!! Koreans do it nearly every day when they camp out in front of the Chinese, American, and Japanese embassies. What do you have to say about this?

Do you ...

Look, who's talking now

Oh, you silly American. Just being so pathetic and can't get rid of yor pompous attitude. You were raised to be pompous and show everybody that attitude. That's why everybody hates American. You still never thought about it? No wonder you just keep bragging about your so-called post secondary ivy league. HEHE~~ Why not IVY LEAGUE? Plus those schools don't always guarantee your teaching skill and personality which is really really important....

You

Identity problem? What do you mean by this?

That I can feel both proud and comfortable with my Korean background and American citizenship does not mean that I have, as you so cheaply retort, an identity problem. Like I urged another douche bag from Dae Han Min Guk, get your ancient-minded head out of your ass and join the 21st century.

See the world, hug the truth constantly, and question your beliefs 24-7. If you do this, you have a...

call a spade a spade

You are absolutely missing my point. Don't you think it's such an odd comparison to put JMS into the foreign instructors' shoe? First of all, JMS is not a foreign teacher residing in Korea teaching English to the youngsters or young females. He doesn't rely on a foreign language to seduce the learners bragging as if he is the one superdinghead instructor from outer sexoplanet. The girls want to learn English. The instructor knew it and used...

my point

Hi w9yards,
Well my point if any is that no race or demographic has a monopoly on "evil"
I didn't see what got everybody so angry so I can't really comment on that.
but after travelling and living in about 30 odd countries I've found that there are wonderful
people from all walks of life doing all kinds of jobs. The % of "idiots" or people that wish to
hurt others is quite low, but they do exist in every society. Is it possible the of...

Hi, RESEARCHER!

"I have researched the history of anti-foreigner beliefs and attitudes in East Asia for nearly twelve years and know that this connection plays itself"

Is it just my feeling? If you've researched for nearly 12 years I belive that it pays better than being an English instructor. Not?? I always thought the Korean Hakwons pay way too much for the foreign teachers just because they are foreigners! As you are proud of being American I am prou...

Narrow-Minded Koreans

You show how truly narrow-minded you are when you insult me by claiming that one would never say bad things about the country they came from. Presidents Kim Dae Jung, Roh, Kim Young Sam, and many of the Korean journalists at The Korea Herald, The Korea Times, and The Joonang Ilbo English language newspapers critcize South Korea when it is warranted to do so. My Korean-American friends are very critical of the R.O.K. but we still care a lot ...

I've Been Misunderstood Yet Again!

The only conclusion that an objective mind can draw from your rant is that you ignore my condemnation of people who sexually exploit CHILDREN FROM ANY COUNTRY (including the R.O.K.), can't read very well, are overly emotional, nay, hysterical, are one hundred percent biased aginst ALL foreigners to the point of groundlessly claiming that they are unemployable losers who have nowhere to go in their home countries, and that you are, despite t...

Do you know this??

What I am thinking is stop fucking and pretending to be a Korean-American..
If you had been educated by normal parents,and if you are really Korean, they would never tell you
to say something about your
country where your blood is related to,,
And you wanna know something ??
At least Koreans in Canada don't try to mollest little kids ,, like some idiotic people do
So ,if you are really Korean, why don't you have a little respect ...

hahaha

Seriously? Can you really not understand CMJ's argument. This story about "molestation" and "free and easy girls" is being used as a scapegoat by some to call for the death and expellation of all foreigners as if they are all responsible for one person's actions. Don't want bad teachers here?...most of us English teachers don't want them here either so perhaps you should blame the bad hagwons that hire them and the immigration that does...

To a ddong-ggae

Why am I talking to an Aussie loser who shouldn't even be allowed to teach English in Korea? Do you guys know that during the Sydney Olympics, NBC went live in Sydney, and Katie Couric was all frustrated by funny Aussie accents, and they were all laughing and joking about the Aussie English? Even Americans experience troubles understanding Aussie accents. Hogwons should avoid hiring Aussies, unless they teach students who must study in Aust...

seriously...Á¤¸»...

i'm a korean currently living in canada. i read about this "shocking post" on the korean newspaper... and honestly all i can say is:

calm down.

honestly, i know that the text that Lucky Guy or whatever posted was in some degree rather offensive to koreans. but being familiar with western culture, it was rather obvious to me that what he posted is more of a joke than a serious thing. however, korea is not used to this sort of internet ...

Do you think you're the only one who are proud of your own nationality??

Nice writing you got there, trying to insult Koera when you're acting like you're not.

You sai koreans PLAY victim card?? well maybe you wrote it WRONG. We NEVER PLAYED victim card, but we ACTUALLY IS A VICTIM, BY FUCKIN AMERICANS. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT.

YOU, as a grwon-up, you think it's funny??? Funny to laugh and say scoundrels, when something so SERIOUS is up on the post?? Why do you talk about past of Korea?? Because YOU'VE GOT N...

Koreans playing the victim card?!

I don't think the Ohno affair and especially the gymnastics event at the 2004 Athens Olympics
were anything like Koreans playing the victim card against the Americans.
Did you actually watch the particular game where Kim Dong-Sung left the arena with extreme
anger and abhorance towards the committee who decided to support such a cheater like Ohno?
Obviously I remember the boxing scandals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and I agree that the
...

I'm An Unemployable Loser Like The Koreans In Canada

Though you are a troll from Korea and I am a Korean-American who is a graduate of The Tower School, Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols, Williams College, and the University of Toronto, I'll respond to your uninformed assertions (go right ahead and refer to me as a banana; it would only confirm that you are one of the Korean nationals here who are, at bottom, less than human).

Yes, the poster who wrote about scoring with kids is depraved. M...

Good God People!

I have taught ESL classes in Korea for the last three years. Currently I am searching for a position that would allow me to live here for the long term. I can not believe what I am reading here. It just hate and name calling. Unbelievable.

I left my country, Canada, because I will not settle for any old job that is offered to me. I have done it all. Factory work, pumping gas, manual labour and working in a group home for troub...

HaHaHa What nonsense to back to you^^This is the funniest writing I've ever seen!!!!

Very funny,,,,Don't tell me you guys wrote this to make us laugh!Ha!

As you can see your comments made in the writing above really shows your lack of intelligence^^

It showed that you could not even understand what the main point of the problem we're discussing

is..

Most of what you said above has nothing to do with the topic.. To say it more clearly, most of what

you said is IRRELEVANT!!!

First of all, you said you ca...

Ugliest dumbest caucasian tutors & Smartest prettiest korean gals

"I hope No korean woman end up getting married to loser english teacher with no future, who cant spell shit, who live in this tiny white trash/redneck neigborhood in montana."

This is the best part of your post. It is so hard to believe that these dumbest kiddos who cannot spell 'genius' could teach English in such an outstanding country, South Korea. Overall, the post is totally OUTRAGEOUS! :) I am not a fluent English speaker so I had...

calm

About the 'issue'.

What was posted on englishspectrum was tasteless, to be sure. The 'playboy' ought to have kept his dealings to himself and had the consideration to realize that he was a default spokesmen for ESL teachers in Korea. He is in no way an accurate depiction of us, and his lifestyle is very rare.

That being said, I believe that the response, and threat of physical violence against all foreigners is equally absurd and ir...

please be rational

"...if you don't know, just stay calm!" - .

I think you should follow your own advice. If you read my article you would know I made no excuses for englishspectrum; they are a disgrace to the ESL teaching community.

But you, sir, are a pefect example of the Koreans I wish to address on this issue. You have brought all your old hatred of Bush and the US into this issue, which is something completely unrelated. The concern here is ESL te...

Yeah? So you came here all the way from the FIRST WORLD?

Seriously, most koreans who got upset by hearing all this aren't saying that having a so called
" NORMAL " relationship with a person from other countries are bad; don't get us wrong...
what upsets us here is the attitude that some of the low English teachers having jobs here in
Korea have in their minds when they think of easily getting away with having free sex with korean
women.
Something you said earlier really annoys me like h...

What Nonsense! (Eng/Kor)

Hi,

We come from countries that are incredibly competitive in comparison to Dae Han Minguk - hence the large number of NORMAL GUYS here who want to try having a normal relationship with whatever kind of woman they meet. A Korean woman seems perfectly acceptable because this is what we are taught back home in the First World - all women from all races are fair game. Really, I'm not lying in affirming that in places such as Columbus, Detr...

Be sensible (Eng/Kor)

Anyone with 'any' intelligence would realise that those foreigners on the englishspectrum site did not have any (intelligence). I don't think many intelligent Koreans are getting furious about foreigners and blaming all foreigners for the disgraceful behaviour and words of those individuals. Only naive and immature Koreans.

Some Koreans have done terrible things. This does not make all Koreans terrible. Many foreign teachers love and res...

the biggest problem with english teachers in Korea

I hope No korean woman end up getting married to loser english teacher with no future, who cant spell shit, who live in this tiny white trash/redneck neigborhood in montana.
also I think english hanwons should start hiring more asian/korean gyopos as teachers instead of dirty old white men who are just looking to have fun, because its now clear that they pollute our nation and women by saying stuff like how korean women NEED to SHAVE, st...

the truth of western

Name Balloon Knot
bk@hotmail.com View 395

Title I lost my game

Here's the situation...

I've been here in korea for about 2 years and for the last year and a half i've had more k-pussy than you could shake a dick at. I constantly had a 5 girl rotation going and would often cut starters when new rookies came to the fore and proved their worth. I now realize that these girls somehow smelled the pussy on me. I swear, it was durin...

A letter for lucky guy..,

I bet you are one of those fuckin guys who failed to live in your country.. Right??

You can't do anything but blabber on with your big fat fuckin mouth ...Right??

Try that(What you wrote) in your country ..Let's see how well you do...

And to tell you something ...

Most of the Koreans that send their children to learn from you are much better than you because at

least they didn't fail in their own country...

I feel pity f...

I know this provides a crucial momentum of the anti-sentiment against ..

My friends and I are in deep concern on that.
Keep your friends well-mannered....

some observations about teaching here

it's strange to come across this board and see that many of the discussions here are not about teaching in korea but of hatred and intolerance of other nationalities. so many of us are festering with the inconformities we face in the displacement of our location/environment. myself included, we do make judgements everyday upon ourselves and on others but please try not to spread hate and perpetuate the notion that foreigners who come here t...

Korea is a Mixed Up Country

There's no doubt Korea is an ideal place to live and offers a lot compared to other countries in regards to teaching ESL. Actually, despite the complaints from most Westerners, Korea offers the most generous contractual aspects than any other country so far. There's probably no other country, or place, where you'll be able to be treated with such goodness.

On the other hand, no other country offers as much dubious work environments, cult...

In Korea

Confounded, I think. It's not like thinking costs anything. And I don't feel the alienation here in Taiwan, as if thinking is only for the upper class. What I think is just what I think.

I think, perhaps, that the bridge between Korea and Taiwan is not one that can be spanned, that many in Korea are actually better off job-wise, and that life there is more benign. In this respect, don't begrudge your existence there. Rather, soak it up. ...

Incredible Scenery

Korea is having an incredibly beautiful fall. The mountains near Seoul are unbeleivable. Gorgeous doesn't describe it. You have to get out and see it to believe it. Korea ranks with Vermont for fall colors....

The Heartt of Darkness

A dead limb lies in the park-lopped off by wind.

It plays dead compared to the dog peeing, and the water surrounding it in pools with sails
Of plastic bags drifting like autumn leaves away.

I can't fathom the limb compared to the green grass of jungle and turf of the Congo.
No one knows the end of such mystery and where it forms at such times
In pools, the giants have crossed to reach its side,
I one, not knowing the footsteps of ...

Elders Issue Statement Calling for Saving Nation from Crisis

Elders in various walks of life including former prime ministers and parliamentary speakers have stepped forward with a grand appeal, "Let's save the country from crisis."
Issuing a "Statement on the State of the Nation for the Protection of Liberty and Democracy" at the Press Center in downtown Seoul on Thursday, 450-plus elders -- ex-Prime Minister Kang Yung-hoon among them -- said, "We can no longer overlook the realities that threaten...

History lesson

""Back when President Park Jung Hee was in office Korea was in the process of raising their own military power being able to combat the "Chinese" and the N.Koreans
Do you know who suppressed that???? US by killing him""

Is this another one of your 'Fucking USA' conspiracy theories? Where is the proof of this? What happened to good old-fashioned tribal power grab theory, esposed by objective experts on the history of the Korean peninsu...

the filipino withdrawal

a lot has been said in the news about the filipino contingent returning to their homeland early but here is some food for thought.

The americans immediately protested and of course threatened to weaken their alliance with the filipino gov. This is normal behavior for the americans as they always put their own agenda ahead of everyting else, even the fixing of their own house.

yet lets look at this more closely, the filipino contigen...

Laos

Now, my real point, which, if you think back to your those incidents of attempted comraderie, all drunk but you and food flying through conversations to stick like octopuss tentacles on your paisly dress, with these inbred Cadadians, they may have unsucsessfully attempted to relay their thoughts on American policy abroad and Foreign Relations, especially those including B-52 Bombers in countries like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam. Or maybe they j...

your no historian

I see that the ideology of dumbing down has been so successful. You wouldn't even pass my third grade history exam with historical thinking like that. But i don't not want to get into a pointless debate with one who does not know history.

My point that i was trying to make is that woman from connecticut, although cultured and educated, has failed to learn the basic lessons of life; everyone is not the same. Others have different leve...