Quote from: kyndo on March 05, 2019, 01:50:24 pmQuote from: hangook77 on March 05, 2019, 12:45:49 pmHow many other OECD states are this close to China? Tokyo is quite the distance away from China. Well, *technically*, Japan is pretty close to the same distance. The shortest distance between South Korea and China is about 200 km while the shortest distance between Japan and China is only about 300 km.It's not the distance that matters but the typical wind patterns. The same wind that carries the shit from China to here, doesn't go all the way to Japan, especially not to the Tokyo area.Korea has very bad air quality only when the wind blows from the West. That's a fact.
Quote from: hangook77 on March 05, 2019, 12:45:49 pmHow many other OECD states are this close to China? Tokyo is quite the distance away from China. Well, *technically*, Japan is pretty close to the same distance. The shortest distance between South Korea and China is about 200 km while the shortest distance between Japan and China is only about 300 km.
How many other OECD states are this close to China? Tokyo is quite the distance away from China.
I have been here a long time (in intervals), and have feared becoming a lifer, because I have not met many (if any) that are all there upstairs.
The lifer weirdos in Korea take their vacations in your part of the world, Lichtenstein. Uni teachers who predate the MA requirement, often married with kids, shabbily attired with weird haircuts... They like solo vacations to Thailand and the Philippines, from which they return with looking guilty and satisfied in equal measure.
The lifer weirdos in Korea take their vacations in your part of the world, Lichtenstein. Uni teachers who predate the MA requirement, often married with kids, shabbily attired with weird haircuts... They like solo vacations to Thailand and the Philippines, from which they return looking guilty and satisfied in equal measure.
I've lived in this part of the world for 16 years, taught in Korea for 6 plus China and have met a lot of ESL teachers who have taught in and around here in various countries. My experience clearly shows me that Korea attracts more than it's fair share of weirdos. There are a few reasons for that, most notably, Korea paid the best for a long time, plus housing and health etc etc. But perhaps as important was, you could be an extreme weirdo in Korea and not stand out because Koreans weren't very familiar with westerners. I'm not counting the war, when westerners saved Korea from communism (with pretty much zero appreciation).So, weirdos went there and fit in. I'm not judging at all. That's just what I think. It was a good place for weirdos to go so they went. I think the lifers are the weirdos among the weirdo crowd! They don't fit in anywhere else. There are weirdos where I live too, but not many and they tend to be women. Every guy I know is married to a local, owns a house and a car, most have children and they're living a typical middle-class lifestyle. There doesn't seem to be young kids fresh outta uni here.
I'm not counting the war, when westerners saved Korea from communism (with pretty much zero appreciation).
Where are you teaching now? I thought you were in Korea.
The tropics!!!
They can do that here.
Korean prostitutes don't speak English. Thai prostitutes do. Almost all the "professors" who have lived in Korea for ages have very limited Korean language ability.
Odd turn of phrase there. 1) Many Koreans DO show appreciation. There still exists a strong bond between Korea and Turkey, for example due to the war. 2) Question- Do you have this same view and expectation of Europeans and their appreciation towards Americans?3) Interesting that you say "westerners." I mean really, it should be Americans because they did all the heavy lifting. Are somehow the Germans part of this now?4) Which leads to the next point- Why are YOU so bothered by this? You aren't American, right? Did you have some relative who fought in the small British contingent? Or is there no connection, but somehow you think you deserve appreciation by extension?5) Should this gratitude be eternal and for all things in every case? Should Koreans prostrate themselves every time a Westerner passes by? What are you getting at here?6) Since you seem to be advocating some sort of eternal group credit, surely you believe in eternal group blame, yes? Thus it would be fair for someone to scorn you/Westerners for say, slavery and colonialism, yes? There should be an eternal grudge?
And we are off with the apologist in residence, Mr. Hyperbole himself: B.M. oops sorry....DM