Comments on: So, This is Probably Why English Teachers Shouldn’t Post Photos of Themselves with Club Chicks http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/ Korea... in Blog Format Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:08:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Timen http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-157515 Timen Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:52:02 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-157515 Can someone post the picture in question? It seems to be taken down by the site linked in the article. Thanks. Can someone post the picture in question? It seems to be taken down by the site linked in the article. Thanks.

]]> By: j-man http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-154020 j-man Thu, 15 May 2008 14:49:38 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-154020 Heh. Reactions like this from the k-nutizens only make it that much more sweet when I score with a Korean girl. Heh.

Reactions like this from the k-nutizens only make it that much more sweet when I score with a Korean girl.

]]> By: Colonel Kilgore http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153950 Colonel Kilgore Thu, 15 May 2008 05:50:34 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153950 Years ago, I was working on a college paper at the 24/7 computer lab at my school, which, ironically was near the engineering department. So, there were many international grad students hacking away all night long like myself. On the desktop, students world leave links or files to their most often used sites. So, I started looking into these links and wondered what was going on at "Chinese Society", "Indian Student Union", etc. And, me being the sneaky bastard I am started snooping around. Most of the links were simple bulletin boards, e.g. "Hey, pizza tomorrow night in student union", "Funny movie last night", blah, blah, blah ...except one That was the Korean Student Union. After opening the link, I started laughing my ass off. Some poor Korean girl was caught red-handed dating a WHITE GUY on campus. Well! They trashed the living hell out of the poor girl, calling a 'whore', taking pot shots about her background and guys she's seen. There was more than 95 messages about the "filthy slut". Why? Because she broke the "Property Rule". Interestingly enough, many messages were in English (READ: kyopos whining, too) Anytime valuable property breaks this rule, you're going to here bitching. Get used it. It will never change. So, what the point here in 2008? Well, now I'm in a country with 47 million Koreans with a chip on their shoulders the size of Gibraltar. So, why do we care? We should be adding more spice to the stories to get bigger laughs instead of complaining we've been a affronted by Korea Inc. Years ago, I was working on a college paper at the 24/7 computer lab at my school, which, ironically was near the engineering department. So, there were many international grad students hacking away all night long like myself. On the desktop, students world leave links or files to their most often used sites. So, I started looking into these links and wondered what was going on at “Chinese Society”, “Indian Student Union”, etc. And, me being the sneaky bastard I am started snooping around.

Most of the links were simple bulletin boards, e.g. “Hey, pizza tomorrow night in student union”, “Funny movie last night”, blah, blah, blah

…except one

That was the Korean Student Union. After opening the link, I started laughing my ass off. Some poor Korean girl was caught red-handed dating a WHITE GUY on campus.

Well!

They trashed the living hell out of the poor girl, calling a ‘whore’, taking pot shots about her background and guys she’s seen. There was more than 95 messages about the “filthy slut”. Why?

Because she broke the “Property Rule”. Interestingly enough, many messages were in English (READ: kyopos whining, too)

Anytime valuable property breaks this rule, you’re going to here bitching. Get used it. It will never change.

So, what the point here in 2008? Well, now I’m in a country with 47 million Koreans with a chip on their shoulders the size of Gibraltar.

So, why do we care? We should be adding more spice to the stories to get bigger laughs instead of complaining we’ve been a affronted by Korea Inc.

]]> By: cmm http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153858 cmm Thu, 15 May 2008 01:10:31 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153858 14,000,000 - I'm just repeating what she said. She was certainly aware that she was instantly famous among the netizens, and not too pleased about it. The dailian.co.kr article linked here was not the only one, and not the original. As this post says, the original (taken down) was on Daum. 14,000,000 - I’m just repeating what she said. She was certainly aware that she was instantly famous among the netizens, and not too pleased about it. The dailian.co.kr article linked here was not the only one, and not the original. As this post says, the original (taken down) was on Daum.

]]> By: day4night http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153854 day4night Thu, 15 May 2008 00:56:36 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153854 But I don't understand. With 14 million hits why weren't there more than ten comments? But I don’t understand. With 14 million hits why weren’t there more than ten comments?

]]> By: cmm http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153848 cmm Thu, 15 May 2008 00:47:09 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153848 I said that my friend met her just last Saturday. He's not the same guy as that shown in the picture. I don't know the exact date of the picture, or who the guy in this picture is, or who the other girls are. I said that my friend met her just last Saturday. He’s not the same guy as that shown in the picture. I don’t know the exact date of the picture, or who the guy in this picture is, or who the other girls are.

]]> By: MrMao http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153843 MrMao Thu, 15 May 2008 00:18:32 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153843 "Also, my buddy’s not an English teacher. " In the picture with the little kids in the classroom, he sure looks like an English teacher. Do you really know this guy? Or the girl? “Also, my buddy’s not an English teacher. ”

In the picture with the little kids in the classroom, he sure looks like an English teacher. Do you really know this guy? Or the girl?

]]> By: bumfromkorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153842 bumfromkorea Thu, 15 May 2008 00:18:26 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153842 14 million hits? Jesus christ... well, racism it is then. 14 million hits? Jesus christ… well, racism it is then.

]]> By: MrMao http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153839 MrMao Thu, 15 May 2008 00:15:24 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153839 "I’m saying that the primary motivation of the netizen reaction is the different standard Korean society sets for teachers, and that the anti-foreigner sentiment plays a secondary role." I'm saying that Koreans view him/me/white people that were born here in the 1960's and have been here ever since/white guys married to Koreans with two kids as foreigners first and teachers /soldiers/homeless drug addicts/owners of businesses and employers of Koreans second. The reason this got so many hits on naver.com is not because a "teacher" is behaving badly, it's because he is a teacher who isn't a descendant of a bear that had sex with a woman in a cave after eating nothing but garlic for 60 days. That's racism, not a deeply ingrained Korean concern for professional behaviour in the educational workplace. And frankly, stating that something exists can be construed as supporting it when the something that supposedly exists (higher expectations of teachers in Korea) is total fantasy. Your part of the Korean collective consciousness, I know, so you have to say things like that. I just don't have to care. “I’m saying that the primary motivation of the netizen reaction is the different standard Korean society sets for teachers, and that the anti-foreigner sentiment plays a secondary role.”

I’m saying that Koreans view him/me/white people that were born here in the 1960’s and have been here ever since/white guys married to Koreans with two kids as foreigners first and teachers /soldiers/homeless drug addicts/owners of businesses and employers of Koreans second. The reason this got so many hits on naver.com is not because a “teacher” is behaving badly, it’s because he is a teacher who isn’t a descendant of a bear that had sex with a woman in a cave after eating nothing but garlic for 60 days. That’s racism, not a deeply ingrained Korean concern for professional behaviour in the educational workplace.

And frankly, stating that something exists can be construed as supporting it when the something that supposedly exists (higher expectations of teachers in Korea) is total fantasy. Your part of the Korean collective consciousness, I know, so you have to say things like that. I just don’t have to care.

]]> By: WangKon936 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153838 WangKon936 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:10:00 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/05/13/so-this-is-probably-why-english-teachers-shouldnt-post-photos-of-themselves-with-club-chicks/#comment-153838 14 million hits huh? That will teach our virgal women to have their photo taken with horny foreigners! 14 million hits huh? That will teach our virgal women to have their photo taken with horny foreigners!

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