The Seoul Global Center will hold the fifth “Information Fair” Saturday, an outdoor orientation for foreign families and residents not used to life in the city
The annual event will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Seoul Plaza in downtown Seoul.
Sounds like a great event, but then there is this:
Visitors to the fair can watch free performances including SACHOOM who performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008, a Chinese drum and lion dance, and a show by hairdressers demonstrating how to create the latest hairstyles
Hairstyles? WTF!
Update: Adding to this rather bizarre day is this delicious, I-kid-you-not, headline in the Joongang:
Nigerians caught in bank fraud operation
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“Information Fair,” hopefully they say it with a straight-face. That is just “Information Overload”. Kind of like a “Monty Python” sketch, but without a punch-line.
No wonder everyone keeps invading Korea, Koreans can’t focus on anything:
Korean 1: “The Barbarians are invading!!”
Korean 2: “Man, I really want some pancakes…”
Korean 3: “Is it time for ‘Dancical Sanchoom’ yet?”
I look forward to seeing loads and loads of ill-tempered, frumpy expat wives sporting the mushroom ‘do.
Here’s my question:
Where are the affordable international schools?
Singapore.
There seems to be some debate at Asian Sirens regarding Tilae’s ethnicity. I say the original parts are Korean.
The cheap foreign schools are right between that bank offering non-discriminatory services and the mobile service provider not requiring your severed left hand in order to get a mobile phone.
I agree w/ Linkd, but who knows…the aftermarket bits could be Made in Korea, too!
#6 you are so dead on.
wonder when the next general town hall meeting will be when ALL expats can show up not just bored executive wives?
#6,
I’ve found an affordable international school…but I’m unable to register my kid because its website won’t accept my alien registration card. LOL.
wonder when the next general town hall meeting will be when ALL expats can show up not just bored executive wives?
That would take too much time out of people’s busy day whingeing about Korea here and at Dave’s ESL Cafe.
Seriously, what is stopping people? It’s even in the middle of the day for teachers on a split teaching shift.
I met a couple of Sudanese guys on the subway the other day. Over here doing business. (What exactly they were doing, it was hard to get from them, but not my problem.) Anyway, it made for better conversation than I typically get from Korean university professors I work with, including those who lived/studied in the US and elsewhere for many years. Same goes for most of the Nigerians I’ve talked to here over the years. A reminder that conversations with Koreans – regardless of English ability, education, etc. – can be a little odd. Nigerians and some other foreigners here might be up to some sketchy stuff, but at least you can converse with many of them on a normal level.
#10 I was at the town hall meeting last Nov when a bunch of teachers showed up griping about the new e2 requirements and the atm card bs and I never saw a bunch of korean officials want to run. They want to have those meetings but not with teachers there and other people who have problems as unless you are an investor or exec they dont care about foreigners here
Immigration had a town hall meeting about the E2 requirements?
I have dealt with English teachers and their problems. I would want to run too.
#13 yeah it was added on to the town hall meeting last nov and there were even embassy people there who griping about the lack of info on it. immig pretty much said all english were dope smoking pedophiles then. even the woman running the meeting was shocked by what the guy said
”a show by hairdressers demonstrating how to create the latest hairstyles”
Can’t make this stuff up.
immig pretty much said all english were dope smoking pedophiles then.
That’s a pretty low thing to say about the English. Even if it’s true.
Did they really say “all”? I guess this is what went down.
WHAT WAS SAID: We know this is sudden and inconvenient but the Korean government is trying to make sure that there are no marijuana users or pedophiles among the English teachers.
WHAT YOU HEARD: All English teachers are dope smoking pedophiles.
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