No Wonder University Tuition Is Outpacing Inflation

by Sonagi on February 26, 2009

The General Student Association at Cheongju’s Seowon University is demanding the ouster of several professors for having spent over a three-year period a total of W130 million in university funds on booze and women at room salons, massage parlors, and other blowjob and handjob entertainment establishments. The men had paid for the services using special corporate account cards and got caught by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology during a special investigation of Seowon Foundation schools.

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1 aaronm February 26, 2009 at 1:21 pm: What is it with my former Korean hometown of Cheongju these days? Schoolkid beaten to death by his peers, mentally-challenged girl raped by her older male relatives and then given back to them by the courts and now this? I’ve got a few mates who teach at Seowon Teachers’ College (there, fixed it for you), must get on the old assbook and ask them about this one.
2 CactusMcHarris February 26, 2009 at 1:24 pm: #1,

It’s not obvious? The place has gone to Hades since you’ve left…

How does one expense a rub and tug?
3 wjk, 검은 머리 외국인 February 26, 2009 at 1:36 pm: for a liberal woman, you sure do read the chosun ilbo quite regularly like it’s your religious text.

read something else.

it’s more of something my father reads 3 times a day.
4 iwshim February 26, 2009 at 2:02 pm: Too funny. My tax won hard at work.
5 erosappa February 26, 2009 at 2:25 pm: Not writing from personal experience, of course, but such establishments have been ‘rumored’ to ask patrons, when bill paying time comes, how they would like the charge to appear on the card: ‘restaurant’ was one choices ‘the very close source’ was offered according to his ‘fading memory’.
6 Robert Koehler February 26, 2009 at 2:39 pm: iwshim — Look at the bright side. At least the money wasn’t going to bail out banks, automakers or Octomom.
7 SomeguyinKorea February 26, 2009 at 3:30 pm: #3,

I’m sure you’d love it if we only read the local English language papers.
8 Linkd February 26, 2009 at 4:21 pm: Damn! Sorry, iwshim, I just realized I dissed the wrong person here. Deep apologies; I was talking about swlee.
9 SomeguyinKorea February 26, 2009 at 4:50 pm: I wonder when we can expect to see newspapers to print retractions for all the negative and unfounded claims they’ve made against foreign ESL teachers.
10 Antti February 26, 2009 at 4:52 pm: They were given a corporate account card from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology for the purpose of carrying out special research *cough* on six middle and high schools and colleges in partnership with Seowon University

Not quite: the Ministry had carried out a special investigation (t’ûkpyôl kamsa) at schools belonging to the Seowon Foundation, and found out that company cards had been used in room salons, massage parlors etc. (한편 지난해말 서원대를 포함한 학교법인 서원학원 산하 6개 중.고.대학에 대해 특별감사를 벌인 교육과학기술부는 보직자들이 룸살롱.단란주점.안마시술소를 드나들면서 법인카드로 결제한 사실을 일부 확인한 것으로 전해졌다)

“Octomom bailout” – Marmot’s Hole sure keeps me up to date on the American language and society.
11 Sonagi February 26, 2009 at 7:16 pm: Correction noted, antti. Thank you.
12 Arghaeri February 26, 2009 at 8:00 pm: #5 I suspect the close source did indeed suffer from fading memory. I think it’s highly unlikely the place can offer a choice, since they’d have to change their details with the credit card agency each time.
What probably happened is they are already in the credit card system as “******* restaurant” was he was reassured that he needn’t use cash as it would show up on his card statement as a restaurant.
13 SomeguyinKorea February 26, 2009 at 8:36 pm: #12,

Not necessarily. A credit card scanner is just a phone call away. The owners probably have a restaurant or know someone who does.