RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

I guess I will wait until my next trip home, hopefully this winter.  Frustrating!!

If you're desperate, you could always just take your driver's test from scratch here in Korea. They offer it in English.
It was a hassle (because I lived more than an hour's drive away from the facility), but I did eventually manage to do it.

I don't get why they expire............ Like, I didn't forget how to f**king drive. You wanna charge me a fee cuz I messed up? Fine, but why on EARTH do we need to do the tests from the beginning? It's ridiculous. Maybe if you haven't driven in 10 years or something, but 2 years?

WHAT IS RED LIGHT? HOW TURN?

Medical and liability are likely. Expired license could be construed as an indicator of potential incapacity (either physical or mental), necessitating proof of such.

I mean, I agree it's dumb, but I could also totally see the above leading to some court settlement.

I don't get why they expire............ Like, I didn't forget how to f**king drive. You wanna charge me a fee cuz I messed up? Fine, but why on EARTH do we need to do the tests from the beginning? It's ridiculous. Maybe if you haven't driven in 10 years or something, but 2 years?

WHAT IS RED LIGHT? HOW TURN?

Eyesight deteriorates with age. A friend of mine's father drove for quite a while before telling anyone that he was nearly blind. A miracle he didn't cause an accident.

I'll say that it should only be necessary to do a vision, hearing and reaction test every few years.

I'll say that it should only be necessary to do a vision, hearing and reaction test every few years.

Yeah, fair play. I just mean that a 40 yo who has it expire and then comes back in 2 years (for whatever reason, it doesn't REALLY matter) shouldn't have to do the writing test or the driving test again. Why should they?

Yeah, fair play. I just mean that a 40 yo who has it expire and then comes back in 2 years (for whatever reason, it doesn't REALLY matter) shouldn't have to do the writing test or the driving test again. Why should they?

Sorry, as a South African I can't feel any sympathy for you guys. Not sure how it is now, but not too long ago in SA, you'd have to wait 6-8 months to book a learner's test and another 6-8 months or more to book a driver's test, were you'd likely fail as the examiners are some of the most miserable c*nts alive and/or are fishing for a bribe. You'd wait another 6-8 months to do your driver's test only to find out the learners license expires after a year so you'd have ot redo the whole thing... so, people would just drive without licenses or take 5yrs to get one.

In Korea, it took me a grand total of 2 days to write my learners, do it, book the drivers, pass the test and get my Korean license.

You guys have it good.

haha   every story about south africa is hilarious to me.  why is anyone still there?  where do they work?   i assume everyone is just working on their uncles game farm right?

If you're desperate, you could always just take your driver's test from scratch here in Korea. They offer it in English.
It was a hassle (because I lived more than an hour's drive away from the facility), but I did eventually manage to do it.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

Eyesight deteriorates with age. A friend of mine's father drove for quite a while before telling anyone that he was nearly blind. A miracle he didn't cause an accident.

I'll say that it should only be necessary to do a vision, hearing and reaction test every few years.

Which makes sense, hence why I paid 80,000 won for a peripheral vison test and had a regular eye examination by a doctor at a university hospital here.  The doctor was kind enough to fill out (in English) the eye-examination form that my state's DMV gave me.  It's funny because whenever I would renew my license back home, the only medical "test" necessary was just looking in a thing that resembled a microscope and reading one (!) row of letters.  That was it. Those workers at the DMV who had me read the letters were definitely not eye doctors, last I checked. 

Yeah, fair play. I just mean that a 40 yo who has it expire and then comes back in 2 years (for whatever reason, it doesn't REALLY matter) shouldn't have to do the writing test or the driving test again. Why should they?

Agree with you!! And I'm a young 30 years old, even more likely to have healthy eyes  .

All the helpful advice about that lesson on "Pride month" was ruined (and moderated) because some of you morons couldn't just keep your personal bigotry to yourselves.

congratulations.
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I was gonna make a gay joke here, butt f*** it.

All the helpful advice about that lesson on "Pride month" was ruined (and moderated) because some of you morons couldn't just keep your personal bigotry to yourselves.

congratulations.
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I agree, but like I mentioned in the new thread referencing that, there was no need to wipe the entire discussion.  That was irresponsible moderating.  Just should've taken out any posts that were having a go at homosexuality and left the ones that were dealing with the lesson plan.  It was the lesson plan forum.  Hardly inappropriate. 

All the helpful advice about that lesson on "Pride month" was ruined (and moderated) because some of you morons couldn't just keep your personal bigotry to yourselves.
congratulations.

Frustrating. 

The smacketh has been layeth down!

I agree, but like I mentioned in the new thread referencing that, there was no need to wipe the entire discussion.  That was irresponsible moderating.  Just should've taken out any posts that were having a go at homosexuality and left the ones that were dealing with the lesson plan.  It was the lesson plan forum.  Hardly inappropriate.

i like how they left the original post up then locked comments lol

Just want to say that if someone uses it and it does cause a fracas in Korea, that there is a chance it could come back to this site and cause all kinds of issues that the site operators probably don't want to deal with.

At best that would be bad publicity. Middle outcome of it being blocked by the govt (effectively the kiss of death for the site). At worst the phrase "distribution of content harmful to children"and some law we've never heard of...

i like how they left the original post up then locked comments lol

I am not in favor of censorship much of the time unless it really is over the line like pedophilia and stuff affecting kids.  In which case, some censorship will be allowed.  But you are an idiot if you do a pride lesson in Korea or in most ESL destinations around the world.  Most countries are still quite conservative and may fire you or give you a stern warning.  Stay away from that in Korea.  Also if you live that way, I assume you will fly under the radar here and not be too open with it outside of a couple of districts of Seoul. 

Frustrating. 

Absolutely teaching that lesson here would have been a suicide mission. 

Absolutely teaching that lesson here would have been a suicide mission. 

It's frustrating that the derailment nixxed the discussion and the advice, I meant.

Yeah, the more I look at this, the more it's clear that this site is trusting its effective existence (and potentially some of the mods in Korea NOT facing criminal penalties) on some random 23-year old in rural Gyeongnam/Jeolla having the sense not to teach that lesson content because if they do, it's going to go over like a lead balloon and could spiral into a "story".

Bear in mind that the current administration in power gets a significant amount of backing from right-wing evangelicals. And that the party out of power has a nationalistic axe to grind and ain't the biggest fans of English education.

In the interests of the well-being of the members of this site and the site itself, people should REALLY be careful with this one, especially as moderation steps have been taken which could be construed as an effective endorsement of the lesson's content.

Sure, maybe one teacher and it gets just dealt with there. You get multiple reports popping up across the country...they're going to look for a distribution point.