Work will make the doumi free

by Robert Koehler on June 13, 2007

in Asides, Completely Random Crap, South Korea

OK, this was funny. [The Yangpa, HT to reader]

{ 11 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Creo June 13, 2007 at 9:48 pm: Jeeeeze, the netikims are going to have a field day when they become aware of this site.
2 R. Elgin June 13, 2007 at 10:51 pm: I freaked out when I saw that!

It is wicked satire and I wonder how many Koreans would understand such and why it is satire.
3 Creo June 13, 2007 at 10:59 pm: There was a discussion on some forum a while back about Koreans not being able to understand satire. I would agree. Especially if their culture is the focus of it. Too blinded by emotion to see the humor.

But they sure love the slap stick style of comedy show.
4 Netizen Kim June 13, 2007 at 11:53 pm: Job-market incompatible degree in liberal arts: $200,000

Plane ticket, because teaching English in Korea is better than becoming permanent fixture in Mother’s basement: $900

Bong plus a bit of ganja: $120

Fancying oneself as “wicked satirist”: priceless
5 Ut videam June 14, 2007 at 10:03 am: Job-market incompatible degree in liberal arts

This is far more of an indictment of modern society than of the people you’re trying to impugn, Netizen Kimjives.

After all, universitas, from which the English word “university” is derived, refers to the wide-ranging nature of the classical curriculum: education in its truest sense, as was formerly practiced at the great universities (and still is at some, such as Oxford, Cambridge, Navarre, etc.) as opposed to the glorified, overpriced trade schools most “universities” have become. This type of education taught its students to speak well, to write well, to reason well, and to evaluate arguments—the skills which are so sorely lacking in modern discourse.

I suggest taking a look at John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University for more on what higher education ought to be, and how far off the mark it currently is.

And $200,000? What university is that?!
6 Linkd June 14, 2007 at 10:29 am: Well, Kim shows that at least one Korean understands satire. His comment is wicked funny.
7 Ut videam June 14, 2007 at 10:35 am: Linkd, you have a point there. He done good.

And I probably wouldn’t have gone off on the liberal arts tangent if I had one of those marketable trade school degrees as opposed to my philosophy parchment.
8 Linkd June 14, 2007 at 10:38 am: Yeah. I went and got a second degree, myself.
9 Brendon Carr June 14, 2007 at 11:45 am: There are lots of law school graduates driving cabs. It’s not the degree that makes you marketable, it’s you.
10 iheartblueballs June 14, 2007 at 11:57 am: Job-market incompatible degree from a Korean “University”: $20,000

Plane ticket to America, because pressing pants or slinging cabbage in LA is better than degrading yourself for your “seniors” and drinking yourself to death at some rinky-dink, ass-backwards Korean company: $900

Full supply of anti-American reading material to tide you over while you wait for your American citizenship: $120

Fancying oneself as a “Proud Korean” while sucking the tit of George W. Bush: priceless
11 wookinponub June 18, 2007 at 11:49 am: Tit?