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think mcfly think! posted:I apologize, after living in Japan for 3 years I seem to have completely forgotten that foreign food is even a thing that exists. As soon as I get tired of the abdominal pain that inevitably follows sketchy street ttokbokki I'll give Ulsan a visit. I have only barely been to Busan so my knowledge of what's available there is limited. Korean food is fine but the range is very limited, you'll likely be hunting for more exotic fare soon enough. Fortunately, it is around if you are willing to look a bit.
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There's a bunch of good Kebab places in Busan, I don't know about other Turkish food. PNU has some good Indian food, there's a few Mexican places around. Also Korean food is very rarely spicy, despite my coteachers freaking out if I pick up anything red.
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Apr 8, 2013 03:31
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I miss the friendly neighbourhood spicy honey fried chicken in a cup man. That poo poo was crack. Like 'sweet Jesus it burns but I want MORE'
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Apr 8, 2013 04:00
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I miss fire chicken. There used to be places everywhere but I don't see them anymore.
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Apr 8, 2013 04:02
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So I want my secondgraders to practice classroom commands, but they can't read English. What's the solution? Put my awkward rear end on youtube. xx If you want to see it you'll have to be quick, I'm only putting this here so I can copy it from my work computer. Edit: too late.
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Apr 8, 2013 04:11
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I miss This is Chicken, the skinhead-themed chicken hof in Hongdae. Fortunately there's a new chicken place down the block called Zion Boat that has pretty decent jerked chicken, so hopefully that'll fill the void.
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Apr 8, 2013 04:41
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Someone who grabbed it post a link please.
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Apr 8, 2013 04:42
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I'm learning that it's quite common for the lower grades to not know how to read. Apparently for Seoul the curriculum is like this. 3rd: listening 4th: listening and speaking 5th: listening and speaking and reading 6th: listening and speaking and reading and writing You learn the alphabet at the end of 4th grade... Maybe
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Apr 8, 2013 05:17
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That's weird. All I did with first and second graders was teach the alphabet and basic phonics. A lot of kids couldn't read because they refused to try, but they were certainly taught.
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Apr 8, 2013 05:20
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DontAskKant posted:I'm learning that it's quite common for the lower grades to not know how to read. Apparently for Seoul the curriculum is like this. The enforce teaching it; they just don't enforce retaining it. Reading is strictly optional because you're pushed ahead regardless and if you miss that window for the alphabet it's not like the teacher of grade 6 will backtrack.
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Whizbang posted:There's a bunch of good Kebab places in Busan, I don't know about other Turkish food. PNU has some good Indian food, there's a few Mexican places around. Is there anywhere in Busan to get Russian/Polish food? I'd murder a bit of borscht before the weather gets too hot.
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Apr 8, 2013 05:52
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joedevola posted:Is there anywhere in Busan to get Russian/Polish food? Russia-town is literally right across the street from the train station. Look for the really sketchy place.
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Apr 8, 2013 06:06
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I've seen a lot of Russian restaurants (and met more Russian people than any other kind of non-English teacher immigrants) but I haven't found anything Polish. And I've been looking.
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Apr 8, 2013 06:17
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Polish you have to make yourself. The best Russian restaurant in Busan closed but there should be borscht in that area. The best borscht I have had was at the Kazakh joint in Seoul.
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Apr 8, 2013 06:29
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I'm not sure if Gyeongbuk's curriculum is drastically different from Seoul's, but even the lowest level kids can read phonetically very well by the time they reach high-school here. There's a high probability that they won't understand what they're reading, but they'll pronounce it just fine.
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Apr 8, 2013 07:04
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hey fellows, I want to try to get a group/team/whatever together for the barefoot festival 13km barefoot run: http://www.barefootfesta.com/ It's all on wellbeing eco-clay or something? I don't really know. I've never done a barefoot run before so I have no idea what I'm talking about. It looks neat and it'll either be fun or my calves will literally explode. What I do know is that it's free for foreigners. Afterwards we can eat meats and drink lots of beer. This is a really terrible invitation, I'm sorry. Anyway if any of this appeals to you, my kakao is jarena3.
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Apr 8, 2013 08:39
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Good choice of soundtrack, but that's too crazy for me. Good luck to everyone who goes, I may be at the end with the food and drinks.
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Apr 8, 2013 09:28
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Yeah, when it gets closer to the date I'll try and arrange a proper goonmeet for afterwards. I know there's a handful of people in Daejeon and it's not a bad city to hang out in. Probably just chicken and barcrawl, but that's always a pretty decent time.
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Apr 8, 2013 09:41
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What's the deal with those little bottles of human placenta extract at pharmacies? The box says it's made from all Korean human placenta but that can't be right, right? Just the logistics of getting that much placenta... I mean if I can verify it's really human and not cow placenta I'll get one just so I can try it, but I need to know it's legit.
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Apr 8, 2013 14:19
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It's good for stamina.
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Apr 8, 2013 14:41
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Could be heavily diluted. Like the juice bottles that are 3% juice. Or diluted in the homeopathy sense 1/1000000th percent.
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Apr 8, 2013 14:58
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DontAskKant posted:Could be heavily diluted. Like the juice bottles that are 3% juice. Or diluted in the homeopathy sense 1/1000000th percent. That'd be pretty potent for a homeopathy solution.
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Apr 8, 2013 15:23
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The head English teacher gifted me a jar of placenta cream that he bought during a training session in New Zealand. Sadly, it's not god tier human placenta. It's just sheep placenta.
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Apr 8, 2013 23:54
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I discovered where they stack all the cardboard in Nonsan. It isn't even locked and has open access. I wonder if I could just steal it every night (there's no one where it's at) and then sell it back to them the next day.
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Apr 9, 2013 02:27
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Maxsmart posted:I discovered where they stack all the cardboard in Nonsan. It isn't even locked and has open access. I wonder if I could just steal it every night (there's no one where it's at) and then sell it back to them the next day. Nah, go to Ethiopia. The starving kids there don't even fight back when you steal their lunch money.
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Apr 9, 2013 02:41
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terivinix posted:Nah, go to Ethiopia. The starving kids there don't even fight back when you steal their lunch money. Shut the gently caress up dad.
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Apr 9, 2013 05:52
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There's a nice bar in Hongdae that a friend of mine runs that has plenty of room, decent enough sound system, cheap drinks and a massive projector screen to play movies or video games on. Less than a 5 minute walk from Hongdae park too so not in a bad location; just one not so heavily traveled. Did some beer pong, Tekken, Simpsons viewing and DJing not long ago and I'd say overall seems like a good place if he can keep it going.
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Apr 9, 2013 19:40
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Apr 10, 2013 00:32
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aeglus posted:There's a nice bar in Hongdae that a friend of mine runs that has plenty of room, decent enough sound system, cheap drinks and a massive projector screen to play movies or video games on. Less than a 5 minute walk from Hongdae park too so not in a bad location; just one not so heavily traveled. Did some beer pong, Tekken, Simpsons viewing and DJing not long ago and I'd say overall seems like a good place if he can keep it going.
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Apr 10, 2013 04:10
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"South Koreans don't worry about North Korea" until a transformer or whatever blows outside, makes a giant bang then all the lights go off lol. Today was awesome.
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BrainDance posted:"South Koreans don't worry about North Korea" until a transformer or whatever blows outside, makes a giant bang then all the lights go off lol. OK, yeah, I'd have liked to have been there for that.
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My co-teacher said a friend of hers in Seoul told her that their gringo had hosed off home because of this bullshit with the North. It's possible she has just mistaken my shaking hands for apocalyptic anxiety, as opposed to the regular kind, and was testing the waters.
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Apr 11, 2013 02:36
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Do you guys even have any kind of 'out' written in your contract in regards to war? Or is it just a cut and run situation?
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Apr 11, 2013 02:51
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Cut and run
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Apr 11, 2013 02:59
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joedevola posted:My co-teacher said a friend of hers in Seoul told her that their gringo had hosed off home because of this bullshit with the North. Oh really? If they're looking for a replacement I think I could hook them up. They might have to settle for Australians though.
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terivinix posted:Oh really? If they're looking for a replacement I think I could hook them up. They might have to settle for Australians though. Parental pressure I bet. A lot of my friend's parents are losing their minds due to the constant fear-mongering going on. It's awful. Also who lives in Daegu here? And why the gently caress did you never tell me about the Chicken and Beer Festival? 
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Apr 11, 2013 03:13
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Because if we told outsiders it means less chicken and beer for the rest of us. It's always on when I'm on vacation as well though this year my holiday starts on the Friday so I might just delay flying out by a day or two and hit it up on my way to the airport.
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Apr 11, 2013 03:42
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For all my affected nonchalance about the 'crisis' I just had a bit of a panic. My co-teacher kept getting calls in class, at one point she had to literally run out to go to the main office. A little after she got back there was another call which caused her to start changing channels on the TV I was using to teach. I thought for sure she was gonna land on some news footage of Jongno with craters all over it. I need some Xanax, Jesus.
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Apr 11, 2013 04:17
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Was SNSD premeiring a new song or something?
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I think our contract has a basic force majeure clause. In case of war the contract is over, nobody owes anyone anything. Which is usually worse for the employee.
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