Comments on: So, I Guess She’s Charging More than £130 an Hour Now

By: roboseyo

roboseyo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:16:11 +0000

I mentioned this girl to the parent of a student I know, because she was pushing her daughter too hard. What a cautionary tale!

The parent answered with (stop me if you’ve heard this one):
“Korea has small space.
Korea has few natural resources.
Korea has only human resources.
Korea has lots of competition.
Koreans need good education to compete.
Getting into a good university is the only way for Koreans to get ahead.
Therefore I must push my daughter.”

What I wouldn’t give just to hear something OTHER than that same tired progression for the 45th time! I find the debating skills and motivations of edu-mania parents more dull and repetitive than “fine, thank you, and you?” and it blows my mind how these boilerplate views have been so completely internalized for so many people.

Or even just once, I’d love for someone to be honest enough to admit that PART (not all - let’s be fair, but part) of the reason moms push their daughters is: “I want to be able to boast to my ajumma friends when she gets into SNU or Heo-beo-deuh, and they will hang their heads and I will be named queen bee of the sewing circle!”

By: mateomiguel

mateomiguel — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:04:28 +0000

I think we’re getting some comments here that should be in other articles… right? I fail to see how the visa waiver in the US and Peace Corps volunteers have to do with the world’s smartest call girl.

By: Big B

Big B — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:34:33 +0000

I’m having a hard time seeing what is “mutually beneficial” about giving Peace Corps volunteers, who spent two years volunteering in Korea, a chance to “experience Korea’s industrial and cultural developments”.

By: JohnT

JohnT — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:18:43 +0000

Funny and stupid at the same time

By: jtb-in-texas

jtb-in-texas — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:51:29 +0000

sad to think her boyfriends pleasured her less than the paying customers… what a tragic waste…

By: Netizen Kim

Netizen Kim — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:25:13 +0000

The great Indian 19th century mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan made love to his mother.

By: user-81

user-81 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:17:12 +0000

“trust that Korean visitors to the US will return home after their visits”

The worst thing about being a call girl is visitors who won’t go home.

By: Sperwer

Sperwer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:36:36 +0000

As set forth in the article, the only trust that seems to be involved will be required of the US, which will have to trust that Korean visitors to the US will return home after their visits. I suspect, though, that the MOU (that acronym again) will stipulate that Koreans’ visa-free status will only commence when the overstay % drops below the regulatory permitted max and Korea implements the new digitized passports.

Trust but verify.

By: nate

nate — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:25:49 +0000

it is hard to read the story as flippantly when you follow the links through and read how she was long subjected to physical and mental abuse by her father, who was recently arrested for untoward contact with two 15-year old students he was tutoring in math.

but whatever, to each his own.

By: mateomiguel

mateomiguel — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:17:43 +0000

Wow, there’s finally one prostitute in the world I want to visit. Now, what is this £ she keeps speaking of? Is that like monopoly money?