Comments on: Korean Univs don’t make the List, again

By: Form over Substance in Korea: Part 1 « The Grand Narrative

Form over Substance in Korea: Part 1 « The Grand Narrative — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:43:44 +0000

[...] Seoul. He was suitably impressed. But he would be less so if he knew that 16 years later, Korea has yet to ever appear on a “Top 100″ list of world universities, based on any [...]

By: sewing

sewing — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:37:21 +0000

You’re welcome…now we just have to wait for Robert to switch back to a template that actually shows gravatars…or that does in my browser, at least….

By: gammazamma

gammazamma — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:33:17 +0000

Sewing, thanks!

By: MrChips

MrChips — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:34:44 +0000

wjk makes a good point but it begs further explanation. I graduated from a school that will never make the top 500 and am confident that the Ivy League would have giggled at my application, coming out of high school - passed it around for others’ amusement perhaps. However, the top 3 in Korea all accepted me for post-grad work and I’ve subsequently been accepted by a “top 10″ program for doctoral work. There’s a lot of variables involved in getting into a “good” program and being a “good” student isn’t necessarily the main qualifier.

By: wjk

wjk — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:06:43 +0000

a little observation note. I’d say most of the commenters and readers here are US expats and Korean kyopos. I guess it was inevitable that these rival two groups would clash.

By: wjk

wjk — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:04:57 +0000

I graduated from a school within the TOP #15 in the world on this list, but I am 100% confident that I would have been rejected from Seoul National University.

By: jyce

jyce — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:28:36 +0000

Nope, Chewbs. But you’re a hotel manager that lives with your mother and is into taxidermy, right?

By: shakuhachi

shakuhachi — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:50:36 +0000

Jyce, you are an English teacher right? Are you the 1.5 generation Kyopo English teacher on the blacklist?

By: jyce

jyce — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:48:17 +0000

Hypocrisy, racism, and plagiarism — it’s the bj trifecta!

You complaining about hypocrisy and racism is like the WNBA complaining about lesbianism.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:37:12 +0000

Here is a link to a blog with a properly credited copy of the original:

http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/reed/reed1.html

BJ, even though you are a troll, I had a teeny spec of admiration for your effective use of the English language to whack the beehive and send all the Western men buzzing out angrily with their stingers erect. I thought that plagiarized piece was unusual because of its essay-like length and organization, the fact that it didn’t respond directly to any ideas in the OP or comments and didn’t contain any insults against Westerners in general or your nemeses.

Endless trolling and now plagiarizing. Robert’s been rather tolerant of your antics, I’d say.