Korea Megathread V: The whole thing feels like a farce

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Outsider perspective: Korea goons are cool, the group chat is all kinds of crazy. A++ would visit again.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2013 11:10

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 18:39

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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

The codeword is anime

Is there a way to register for a DMZ tour online? It seems like they're all by phone. I'm alright with Skype calling them but it's a bit of a bother with the time difference, I'm in the USA at the moment.

The USO lets you do it by email.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2013 18:03

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HIV is a Western affliction and does not exist in South Korea.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 15:44

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joedevola posted:

This sentence is bending my mind into a pretzel.

I wonder what the guys got in return for their services :heysexy:

# ¿ Feb 4, 2013 14:55

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Yeah but the Catholics are all slave to a Pope. That's also the main issue China has with Catholics, iirc.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2013 09:41

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bones in my tender, tender meat.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 10:59

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If you smoke the weed, it's gone. That's my advice. I'm Dutch so I'm an expert on these things, you see.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2013 16:36

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Toussaint Louverture posted:

My old hagwon gave Themata poo poo at least partly because she wasn't white.

Here's the kicker though, my old hagwon had teachers do the interviews for new hires. Around my 11th month they had me interview 4 candidates for a job. This is already a terrible decision because the only thing relevant to a hagwon that I am utterly, woefully abysmal at it is interviews and giving them is even worse than having one. That said, there were four candidates:

A: TESOL, no work experience teaching or otherwise, no travel, sounded high strung.

B: No TESOL, no relevant work experience, Church experience, rampant typos in resume, OK interview.

C: In class TESOL, coaching, clerical experience, extensive travel, good interview.

D: Took another job.

So naturally I recommend C. However, she's a black South African. My director says they can't hire her because she's black. They ask me to recommend someone else. Naturally I said no. There were a tense couple of days and then they hired her. I hope she's still doing alright over there. If they weren't already two foreigners down I probably would have been given some poo poo.

So yeah, if you aren't white you really are at a serious disadvantage, at least for hagwons and after-schools.

Korea Megathread V: I'm black. Why am I black.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2013 23:18

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Last topic I promised a guide to making makgeolli and I still haven't posted it. But instead I have something better: http://www.mistermakgeolli.com/

It's all scientific and poo poo. Enjoy.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2013 11:15

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I wish you could make buildings historical so I could have the same apartments everywhere.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2013 08:47

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K-pop needs more Hwayoungs. Except a little older I guess.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2013 11:04

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Good news everyone. KakaoTalk coming to PC?

# ¿ Mar 21, 2013 09:24

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Brimmy posted:

I feel like I'll lose gooncred for asking but are we all supposed to know who this is?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75218.0

A 17-year old girl modeling for BitCoins, inspired by a known pedophile. Good stuff.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2013 08:41

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Spills the Moon posted:

I've got a request that I'm hoping some of you here might be able to help me with.
My dad and step mom might be coming to Korea this summer, and my dad wants me to find a site where he can book hotels and search about the best places to go in Korea. The reason I don't know of anything like that is because most of my travels have been done on recommendations and out of guide books, and I've always just trusted to the fates that I'd be able to find someplace to sleep of a night. My dad, on the other hand, much prefers to have a watertight itinerary where every stop and hotel is booked months in advance. Any websites I can guide him to?

The KTO website? It's pretty good. http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/index.kto
WikiTravel also has good info on Korea.

Maxsmart posted:

Fear Mexichat. (Well any food chat)

Fear any chat related to digestion, really.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2013 09:48

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BrainDance posted:

The place hosed up too and scheduled some guys 70th birthday thing at the same time one room over, so our music today was "old guy noraebang trot hits."

They probably had better booze as well, should've crashed that party.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2013 21:13

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It'll be like Brasilia except with less cool city design.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2013 09:22

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What are they gonna do with all the Gyeong- lines?

# ¿ Apr 1, 2013 21:52

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There's also a cool sealife museum thingie near Ulsan and a pottery. Why yes I took the Ulsan City Tour Bus�.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 14:28

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ReindeerF posted:

Do you want to know a true one? On a sad note, KoreaIsBest.com has fallen out of current registration. The Internet Archive copy is still around. That site generated a lot of laughs even among those of us with very little experience with Korea or Koreans.

Absolute goldmine.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 21:34

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Yeah, eat a lot of food, drink a lot of booze, climb a few mountains, visit a few museums. It's basically the same as in any other country except that the food and booze are really cheap.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2013 07:46

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Wonderful.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2013 17:29

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Where's the decent action movies and hair metal :colbert:

# ¿ May 3, 2013 12:24

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Fraktur or bust.

# ¿ May 5, 2013 09:51

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Got this one through a friend, for those who want the sweet sweet life of a university job: http://seoulprofessionals.com/jobs/english-instructor-hansung-university/

# ¿ May 6, 2013 15:06

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Read every single thing that's posted in the chat. It's worth it.

# ¿ May 7, 2013 06:41

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반말 ain't got poo poo on Bokm�l. :norway:

# ¿ May 15, 2013 06:44

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I'm gonna introduce Suikerbrood to Korea and make millions.

See those brown spots? It's all sugar, baby.

# ¿ May 24, 2013 10:19

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According to the Googles there's a 시나본 at 18-12 Euljiro 6-ga in Seoul (near Dongdaemun exit 8).

# ¿ May 26, 2013 13:29

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Why do you hate the job creators? Why don't you move to North Korea, you communist?

# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 14:40

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Aesis posted:

Typical Korean conservative response. Is that the best you can come up with?

Why do home owners who use way less electricity have to pay multiple the amount of money compared to industries that use megawatts' worth of electricity in literally blink of an eye? Is it really justifiable because 'they provide jobs'? Do you even realize that they pay minimal amount to profit lot more for themselves?

Is the chaebol not entitled to the sweat of its brow?

# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 16:22

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I went to Ansan once with Kant and now I'm missing a lung. Thanks Obama!

# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 10:13

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It was nice to use in Daejeon as a tourist even though they were basically children's bicycles for a foreign giant like me.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2013 11:37

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Spiderjelly posted:

I am China goon. I understand that this was passed down through IRC:

"tell him to book the uso panmunjeom/conference room/ dora observatory tour or its a waste of time USO site has all the rules"

Can anyone provide a link to which specific process I need to follow? I found the USO website:

http://affiliates.uso.org/Korea/?contentid=347

but I didn't find any specific way to reserve tickets other than a Korean phone number.

Also, does anyone need me to mule anything from China? Tea? Ming pottery? Wife?

Send an e-mail to nicole@koridoor.co.kr and tell her the dates you want to travel. IIRC she handles the reservations. This is the information I had to give:

First/Last name:
Passport number:
Nationality:
Civilian/Military:
Phone number:
Tour date:

:siren:

Don't go into the tunnel, it's poo poo :siren:

# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 08:58

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96k is for the full tour, afaik.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 13:54

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I went all the way in and all I got was a headache. Running back up is fun though.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 14:31

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Cameron posted:

Aesis, can you explain what she did in the most angry and aggressive way possible? I really want to hate this woman but I just don't know how.

quote:

Often held up as a model of Confucian ideals

# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 16:36

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Put the chaebol logos on a new 100k bill.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2013 06:52

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I hope Kant beats GF with some variation on jjajangmyeon.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2013 10:09

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It's not a group chat, it's an experience.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2013 09:43

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 18:39

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When I think of Sistar, I see Lummox.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 08:04

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