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Officially finished at one of my two schools. It was nice knowing some of the teachers, and I'll miss the kids, but feelings are otherwise straightforward: weeeeeeeeeeee
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Feb 8, 2013 08:07
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Become a Korean (really true of any country with slander laws like Korea) handyman. No skills required.
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Jesus Christ nerds, shut up about Star Trek.Grand Fromage posted:Unlimited 3G data isn't exactly expensive here, either. Reading seems to indicate one of those WiBro egg things would be the way to go for mobile internet for a tablet. How do those work? The only information I could find was on Dave's and it was a link to a video of those unpardonable Eat Your Kimchi creatures. Don't make me watch it. Basically the thing sits in your bag or pocket and you connect to it like a wifi hotspot, is that the idea?
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I think so, I've never actually seen one. I assume it also tells you to do more deadlifts and drinks all your Natty Ice, given the name.
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joedevola posted:Jesus Christ nerds, shut up about Star Trek. I an posting on one now. It's really fast and reliable, but signal is by no means pervasive... It always dies in the basements of buildings. Also the battery lasts about 9 hours so you have to remember to turn it off. There are also large rural swaths of the country that don't get service. But hey, 10k a month for 10 GB at approaching 10Mbps.. No complaints all things considered. Edit: It's about half the size of a Galaxy S2 and easily fits into a pants pocket together with a phone. The Gay Bean fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Feb 8, 2013 11:34
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Do you buy it outright or is it on a contract?
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Is there an ios app to monitor data usage? I have a wifi iPad and I've thought about getting one of those but I honestly have no idea how much data I use, so I'd like to monitor it for a bit so I don't buy a data plan with too little/too much. And is there gonna be any advantage over just using my phone as a hotspot?
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What is the procedure for using the Olleh and KT wifi boxes that are everywhere? Assuming I'll be spending most of my time in and around metropolitan Busan it seems like that might be more practical. In an ideal world it would just involve paying for a password, but since ~*Korea*~ I'm assuming the reality is closer to having to use IE and some nightmare ActiveX plugin, which isn't ideal on an Android tablet. Assuming I use one of the main internet providers for the connection in my flat, can I sign up for their public wifi and just add it to my monthly bill? Basically I'm just really worried that I won't be able to watch streaming porn on the beach you guys.
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terivinix posted:Seollal and Chuseok are the best two times to go urban exploring in Korea. I usually plan a trip somewhere more high-profile or sensitive because there's less chance of running into workers. This year I'm hitting up a subway tunnel under construction, and if it hasn't already been gutted I'd like to see inside the Shilla Hotel which is under renovations. I hereby declare you to be awesome. Seriously. Burning Snowman is amazing.
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joedevola posted:What is the procedure for using the Olleh and KT wifi boxes that are everywhere? Assuming I'll be spending most of my time in and around metropolitan Busan it seems like that might be more practical. From a laptop it's just a web sign in. I've done it from OSX before so it doesnt require the security garbage. With tablets I imagine it just works like a phone. I think they register the MAC address from your tablets wifi card that then enables it to connect without signing in every time. KT Olleh has an English line.
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joedevola posted:What is the procedure for using the Olleh and KT wifi boxes that are everywhere? Assuming I'll be spending most of my time in and around metropolitan Busan it seems like that might be more practical. Or costs like 12k a month to register one device. Did I mention that Olleh eggs come with a free device registration on Olleh WiFi? Although many store employees don't know this so you have to come prepared to argue.
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I'm sure no one cares and this is turning a little too much into my Korea blog (sorry, maybe this will help someone else in this situation) but this whole problem with the 14 year old girl ended up alright for me but it was kind of sad. It went down like this. "look, I'm sorry I upset you but" "please dont. (director) and (teacher) said it already. I'm sorry. Im really sorry." all while doing that Korean "no eye contact I'm ashamed" thing. "ok... Sure... Have a mentos..." Then her brother threw a pen at her. I have a lot of brownie points from the middle school boys after I jailbroke one of their iphones and started giving them game recommendations. And then class started, and she was the best middle school student I've ever had. I felt really bad for her so Wednesday is "why the gently caress not Seollal pizza party" day.
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Good end to that story, she's not gonna be doing that again for a while. And the Ferengi are Space Jews. Ol Gene practically spelled that one out.
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Sorry, but Mel Brooks already did Space Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo
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MA-Horus posted:Good end to that story, she's not gonna be doing that again for a while. Yeah, I'm a pretty lucky guy. Also I live in Ansan which, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say is he best place in Korea. Russian girls  I had an awesome Friday.
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MA-Horus posted:And the Ferengi are Space Jews. Ol Gene practically spelled that one out. You've obviously never been to Uijeongbu, the capital of the Ferengi homeworld. 
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You take the most post-apocalyptic pictures I've ever seen.
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The Gay Bean posted:You take the most post-apocalyptic pictures I've ever seen. It's his thang. He has some of me that makes me look like some sort of warlord ruling over a torn down slum.
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That base was abandoned at the time.
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This was a new one for me: Hanging out at a bar after closing the other night, I get out of the detached bathroom place to find the owner, who I had just properly met for the first time, waiting for me. He started explaining that "his friend" gave "this" to him and he knows "it isn't much" but he wanted me to have it. He handed me a cigarette box and I, having no idea what he was talking about, just thanked him graciously and he seemed rather pleased. I put it in my pocket and forgot about it until yesterday. Opened it up and it turns out he randomly gave me weed. I don't smoke at all but, thinking back, I guess if I did I probably would have known exactly what was going on. He has seen me perform a few times before so maybe he assumed that any foreigner that plays weird noisy music must also smoke. Anyway, I found it hilarious.
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Pass it along to a friend who smokes. There are plenty of smokers in Korea who (justifiably) are terrified of the consequences of getting caught buying it.
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upsell it to a foreigner you could probably make 100 to 200k won.
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If this forum is still visible behind the pay wall then STOP TALKING ABOUT DRUG poo poo ON THE INTERNET. editeditedit Heh, turns out this thread is visible. Oops. joedevola fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Feb 11, 2013 |
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If it were me I'd bury it somewhere or toss it in a river. My life is going too well right now to take any risks. Korea is so obsessively prohibitiv about that stuff that it just isn't worth the risk to have anything to do with that poo poo.
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Erase your post. Flush. Never speak of this again.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:If it were me I'd bury it somewhere or toss it in a river. My life is going too well right now to take any risks. Korea is so obsessively prohibitiv about that stuff that it just isn't worth the risk to have anything to do with that poo poo. A slow moving river? Super stoked for this Saturday after merely talking to some goons who were watching Germany take over America and the Axis conquering the world!
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If you smoke the weed, it's gone. That's my advice. I'm Dutch so I'm an expert on these things, you see.
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Jeoh posted:If you smoke the weed, it's gone. That's my advice. I'm Dutch so I'm an expert on these things, you see. Depends on when his next health check is. Internal possession is illegal too here, I think. If it was meth or pills or something I'd say go ahead, but if you have a blood test coming up in a few months there's no reason to risk it with weed. It would probably all be gone within a month but that's not true for everyone.
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Isn't it also true that if you fail the drug test you can take it again in like 30 days and get a pass?
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South Korean drug laws are brutal. Possession of any amount will land you five years in prison, foreigner or Korean. I believe Korea also has life imprisonment for trafficking but it happens so rarely that it's hardly ever sentenced down that way. The Korean police, while inept at most policing, are pretty effective it seems in their drug policing, considering all of the stories you hear about foreigners getting popped for weed. They do a pretty interest way of enforcement, and I know this first hand, because it single-handed nearly took down a large percentage of foreigner teachers in Daegu back in 2009. What happened was that Mr. D., as we will call him was a partner in a very successful, and maybe the first Canadian-style bar and restaurant in Daegu. Anyways on the side this partner was also running a poker night out of the place, but that's not relevant. What was relevant was that the dude was also slinging hash on the side to almost every foreign ESL teacher in Daegu. Anyways, as what always does, D. got busted for trafficking and possession. While threatening his stake in the bar, they told him he had two options: Name names. or Go to prison for five years. He named names. Tons of them, Some of which didn't even have anything to do with the weed. Not just dealers, but pretty much anyone else who ever smoked or was suspected to. As the police started getting people and getting them to also name names, the deportations rose and everyone was freaking out. I remember a story about the drug cops and immigration waking up my friend one morning. He said they knocked, rushed in, threw him in the street in his underwear and told him "Pee in this cup." in broken English. Obviously he didn't do it in the street but he had to. Why? Because in E2 Visas, there is a specific code that says at any time an officer of the law requests a piss test, we must do it, or face immediate deportation. So he took the piss test, then the cops notified his work and bam, he was suddenly out of a job. Second goes for another friend, who was actually smoking. He had lived in Korea for like, eight years, planned to get married and when the bust hit, he was also deported leaving a pretty good job at life in Korea. This was back in 2009 and the fallout has subsided, but at the end of the day, there were more than 20 people who were deported, lost their jobs or lost their families over it. Furthermore after deportation you have a travel ban for coming back to Korea ever, not that you'd really want to I suppose. So yeah, whatever, Korean laws are dumb, all that, but seriously, I'd stay away from all drugs in Korea because if you get caught, you are royally hosed.
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Gotta love the priorities. You say you're a young Korean woman and you've been locked in a closet by an armed maniac? You can give us exact directions? EEeeeeehhhhhhh... Foreigners are buying pot?  IT'S loving GO TIME!
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Since we're continuing to talk about drug poo poo, does anyone know if you can buy poppers in Korea? They're not illegal in the UK, but I don't know where I'd even start to look for them in Korea.
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Seriously guys no drugs chat. Even if it is legal in Korea that won't stop the cops from getting you deported. It's pretty common for people to be harassed for legal drugs just as much as it is for people to get busted for illegal ones. Don't think you can get away with technically correct. If you get caught doing anything objectionable its legality isn't really relevant. Most of all I wouldn't do anything that relies on other foreigners being discreet. I've met a lot of waygooken in my day and absolutely none of them are what I'd call subtle. Goons included. Counting on a foreigner being discrete in Korea is like counting on a rock being eloquent.
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Chris Rock is pretty eloquent
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 Never mind. Flush that poo poo right the hell now, guy who brought this up.
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Yeah. Guys, the reason police target expats for narcotics busts isn't because they are xenophobic assholes. It's because, coming from countries where everyone has long since stopped giving a poo poo outside political campaign fundraisers, expats are collectively dumb as rocks and the low-hanging fruit of Korea's demographic makeup. Of which the last page is a pretty good example. Don't talk about drugs on the internet, you idiots. tirinal fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Feb 12, 2013 |
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 Here's a crappy cell phone shot of Korea's coolest Temple, 석불사. It's secluded and tourist free! Great view of Busan as well. Also, it's kind of a bitch to find and there are no clear English directions on the web, so I'm providing some decent ones here: Take Line 3 to Mandeok Station, then leave through Exit 2. Walk straight out of the exit and up the hill. After you pass the gas station and just before you enter the old tunnel, there will be a small road branching off up a small hill. There's also a very easy to miss sign for 석불사 at this turn. Take that road. At the top of the hill the road comes to a T, and there will be a small parking lot. At the back of the parking lot next to some electrical boxes is a small footpath. Take that path. Cross the first road you come to to continue on the path, but at the second road leave the path and turn left to follow the road. When the road forks, stay left. The road will turn into weird semi-parking lots a few times, and you'll probably have to hop over a couple of chains, but just stay on it and ignore any branching paths. After about 45 minutes on this road you'll reach the temple. It's worth the trip.
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tirinal posted:Yeah. Guys, the reason police target expats for narcotics busts isn't because they are xenophobic assholes. It's because, coming from countries where everyone has long since stopped giving a poo poo outside political campaign fundraisers, expats are collectively dumb as rocks and the low-hanging fruit of Korea's demographic makeup. Of which the last page is a pretty good example. It really reminds me of that episode of the wire where the one narc cop says white dealers need affirmative action. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Feb 12, 2013 |
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tirinal posted:It's because, coming from countries where everyone has long since stopped giving a poo poo outside political campaign fundraisers, expats are collectively dumb as rocks and the low-hanging fruit of Korea's demographic makeup. I've reread this sentence like 4 times now and it's still too confusing for me. Are you stating that: the 7 applicable E2 countries have an apathetic population towards drugs, the 7 applicable E2 countries care about drug issues only in regards to campaign fundraisers, all expats are dumb, the 7 E2 visa countries expats are dumb, in regards to drugs the 7 E2 countries are dumb, and so on and so on? Anyways, I'm bitter and hungover right now so my input/output ability seems impossibly limited.
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