|
Korea owns and so do you
|
| # ¿ Jan 15, 2012 05:48 |
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 21, 2013 08:15 |
|
|
Maybe this is a good time to discuss samgyupsal preferences. I'm a purist: lettuce, meat, ssamjjang, fresh kimchi (not grilled) and roasted garlic, sometimes with sweet marinated onion. I could eat it every day for every meal.
|
| # ¿ Jan 15, 2012 09:37 |
|
|
John Sheehy posted:Also, what's the buzz with quitting and getting a new job, I guess it's a massive pain in the arse? I'm probably not going to do that but it's nice to consider the option. I did it about a month and a half ago. It was actually relatively painless. I simply took the required documents from my new employer and my release letter from my old employer (very important) and paid 30,000 won for a new sticker in my passport. The immigration office in Mok-dong is really streamlined. I was done and legal in about 30 minutes.
|
| # ¿ Jan 16, 2012 14:32 |
|
|
I like Korean beer. It's easy to drink and goes down about as easy as a Corona or Tsing Tao. The only reason that I would consider drinking it over anything else is because a 2-liter of it costs 3000. Still better than soju, though.
|
| # ¿ Jan 17, 2012 06:27 |
|
|
Size 13US? If they exist, there's very few. It's hard enough finding shoes that are size 10 1/2.
|
| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 06:25 |
|
|
Same here. I remember going there when I first arrived for some reason and then we bored in 15 minutes and left. I feel like the kimchi museum might just be an ironic thing to go to.
|
| # ¿ Jan 23, 2012 06:57 |
|
|
That's the second worst song in history, after Ne-yo ft. Pitbull - Give Me Everything.
|
| # ¿ Jan 23, 2012 10:38 |
|
|
On the flipside of that, some of the kids I teach call each other "oppa" and "noona" and I highly doubt they're old enough at 8 to form any emotional ties or understand closeness between non-family members, but I'm sure it changes slightly as they go through puberty and whatnot.
|
| # ¿ Jan 24, 2012 18:46 |
|
|
Didn't your school take out money from your paycheck? Are you sure about it? That seems kind of weird and sketchy.
|
| # ¿ Jan 25, 2012 15:33 |
|
|
Soju is water + as much sugar as a bottle of coke + rubbing alcohol. That's the recipe for soju. Vile poo poo.
|
| # ¿ Jan 27, 2012 23:29 |
|
|
Most run until 12:30 or so one weekdays. If your hostel is at a stop on the airport railroad, you'll be good.
|
| # ¿ Feb 1, 2012 15:35 |
|
|
The ball-chilling winters are still better than the summers here.
|
| # ¿ Feb 2, 2012 08:41 |
|
|
I'd love to see the Nielsen ratings for Letterman and Regis to see the huge dropoff once the K-Pop starts.
|
| # ¿ Feb 2, 2012 12:29 |
|
|
North Face jackets also are "cool" because supposedly they're the Korean Mob equivalent of Adidas track suits that Mafia thugs wear.
|
| # ¿ Feb 2, 2012 14:57 |
|
|
Make sure to pay heed to that, otherwise the micro-explosives packet in your brain will blow up once you pass the border into any of those districts.
|
| # ¿ Feb 2, 2012 18:03 |
|
|
Does your contract say "all national holidays"? That might be something to stick in their faces if the law doesn't forbid working on that day.
|
| # ¿ Feb 2, 2012 18:21 |
|
|
He's saying "no" to the "Koreans are about 20 years late to U.S. fashion/hip culture". The average Korean man in his 20's dresses far better than than majority of the expats here in their 20's.
|
| # ¿ Feb 2, 2012 23:46 |
|
|
That's the weirdest compliment ever.
|
| # ¿ Feb 4, 2012 00:33 |
|
|
With 4 people in a cab, for the round trip to Gangnam you'll spend about 7,000 for a taxi. Just make sure you're drunk enough before you get to Gangnam otherwise you'll end up paying 10,000 for drinks at the club or be forced to drink soju at a family mart. There's only one real "club" in Hongdae, M2. The rest are just meat markets (Not that there's anything wrong with that). aeglus is the man with the plan if you want to have fun at some real clubs in Gangnam.
|
| # ¿ Feb 6, 2012 11:35 |
|
|
I can't remember the name of the restaurant off the top of my head... maybe Thai Palace? It's all the way up the hill and a little bit over if you're walking out of exit 2. It's on your left past the IP Boutique hotel and one the third floor, above the High Street Market and a GS25. They had great pork stir fry.
|
| # ¿ Feb 7, 2012 12:15 |
|
|
I've been told the same thing about the floss before. Truly moronic.
|
| # ¿ Feb 9, 2012 00:36 |
|
|
You might be able to break an arm 30 ways but my uncle works for Nintendo.
|
| # ¿ Feb 9, 2012 10:29 |
|
|
I think the thing is that whenever someone says things like that in real life, it's always some obese neckbeard uber-George Costanza who watched some youtube videos and did some Star Wars kid poo poo in his mom's basement as practice. I'd take a wrestler over Bruce Lee any day.
|
| # ¿ Feb 9, 2012 11:14 |
|
|
Also, try to get housing allowance if they'll let you get your own place and you can't keep the dorm. If they won't, then you can just get some Korean to go with you to a real estate agency and get your own place without them knowing. Remember, don't tell them what you're going to do. I learned this lesson when I told my employers that I wanted a new bed and they poo poo bricks. Just do it and don't tell anyone.
|
| # ¿ Feb 10, 2012 01:09 |
|
|
She wants your cock
|
| # ¿ Feb 14, 2012 15:37 |
|
|
Is that an afterschool? And is that the same as WinEdu?
|
| # ¿ Feb 15, 2012 01:02 |
|
|
theinfamouszero posted:Yessir. A friend highly recommended them me, then we both found out how they do "business". I'm not sure how to handle the situation yet, I have 6 months left to the contract. Everyone I've talked to said it's clear cut illegal termination. Can you give me more info on problems and the termination? I work for an afterschool program as well so I need to know what possible poo poo might hit the hypothetical fan.
|
| # ¿ Feb 15, 2012 08:35 |
|
|
MonkeyBrains posted:I was happy to see an aircon in it, and they just put a 32 inch LCD tv in there yesterday. The plastic is even still on it. Even 5-10 year old TVs will still have the plastic on them in Korea. They think it makes them seem newer or something, and that's Korea's M.O.
|
| # ¿ Feb 16, 2012 01:16 |
|
|
The only thing stupider than banning you from going to certain parts of the city because of what other people did is actually going along with it. No one is even going to remember that rule in a week anyways, so remembering over it for more than 4 more days is pretty much a waste of time. Hell, you could probably even mention how you went to Hongdae on the weekend to your boss and he or she wouldn't even think about it.
|
| # ¿ Feb 16, 2012 15:30 |
|
|
Here's a fun game, try to get your co-teachers to pronounce "crawl". It's not a good idea for her to get my class to repeat it the way she does and have them learn it that way that way. I guess the best text approximation is "Can this turtle kerr?"
|
| # ¿ Feb 17, 2012 07:52 |
|
|
Why are you eating chicken with your students at a hagwon? My old hagwon expressly forbid it. Lucky duck!
|
| # ¿ Feb 18, 2012 05:34 |
|
|
THE LUMMOX posted:He'd better win an Emmy for this.  The "I was drunk" argument wins again
|
| # ¿ Feb 21, 2012 07:06 |
|
|
I work 20 hours a week. Even when things rarely go awry, I still say to myself "I work 20 hours a week".
|
| # ¿ Feb 21, 2012 14:37 |
|
|
DontAskKant posted:What do you do again? Just to remind me why I hate my hagwon and it's 40 (sometimes 40+) hours. After school program. It's just me and a co-teacher in a public school. I teach a little less than 3 hours a day, and prep for one. The only downside is I pay for my own housing, but considering how even if it all goes to hell I can't be kicked out by my bosses, it's not such a bad deal. Plus, I live 30 seconds from the subway station and 5 minutes walk from my school. It's nice being able to get home from work at 3:00PM and take naps.
|
| # ¿ Feb 21, 2012 16:00 |
|
|
THE LUMMOX posted:How does this work? I teach elementary, so they have classes until about 1:00 on most normal days, then they come to our class, and during vacation (now) they have class starting at 10:30. I doubt my program will be shut down any time soon, since it's likely the most successful one run by my company, and our student numbers are going up due to the start of the new school year. We are even paid on a sliding scale, so I'll be making an extra 250,000 won next term 
|
| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 01:13 |
|
|
I can only hope that the expensive bottle of French wine I gave my principal as a present when I first met him (and the only time I have seen him) is enough to keep him happy. He was pretty stone-faced and bored, even when I tried speaking with him in broken Korean, but his eyes twinkled and a smile grew on his face as soon as I pulled the booze out. And my god, it is gorgeous today.
|
| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 06:02 |
|
|
I'm with aeglus. I've partied 10x more and 10x harder than I ever did in college in my time here. Work-related stuff aside, there's a lot of opportunities here. I tutor a Cheongdam businessman in Italian language on Saturdays, and from doing so, he's asked me to help him correct and implement English-language support for his product. He wants me to go with him for a week in April to Azerbaijan to work during the Eurovision set-up process with him. There's chances to be an adult and develop personally AND still drink a bottle of soju and kick over trash cans in Hongdae. It's like a choose-your-own adventure book, only this one would have a lot of blank pages, due to blacking out frequently.
|
| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 14:19 |
|
|
aeglus is a professional badass and partymaster. My job is only just tutoring because working another job on an E-2 visa without it being listen on your ARC and clearing it with your employer is a violation of your visa. There's 0% chance I would work under-the-table for ludicrous amounts of money in my ample free time, no sir.
|
| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 15:17 |
|
|
I am an after school teacher.
|
| # ¿ Feb 22, 2012 15:36 |
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 21, 2013 08:15 |
|
|
AmbientParadox posted:Lyin rear end bitch True, but I can't think of a way to describe those road cone-type things that are orange and reflective and shaped like a flat tesla coil, but then again not really, because literally everything doubles as a trash can in Hongdae anyways.
|
| # ¿ Feb 23, 2012 01:04 |
|
