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Bugblatter posted:I mean... I really don't meet than many kpop fans among the incoming teachers. They were loving everywhere in the last bunch before I left. I assumed the problem would be getting worse with time. Now that I'm thinking about it I think Korean TV might've been bigger with them than kpop. They were huge into both though.
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Whizbang posted:A lot of people came here to save money for student loans or whatever but now the exchange rate is poo poo so that doesn't work so well. I used it last month and it worked well, though it did take a couple days longer than a bank wire transfer. superm0nk fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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superm0nk posted:Speaking of which, SodaTransfer is in beta right now and offering free exchanges (USD-KRW only) for up to 3,000,000원. Thanks for this. I'll try this out the next time I need to move money. It looks better than what I've been doing up until now.
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May 16, 2016 03:57
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Bugblatter posted:I mean... I really don't meet than many kpop fans among the incoming teachers. Every other fellow foreigner I ever met in Korea... Was interested in K-pop or K-drama. Employers for schools need to start adding TOPIK scores as a requirement so you get rid of 95% koreaboo applicants.
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Raphisonfire posted:Every other fellow foreigner I ever met in Korea... Was interested in K-pop or K-drama. rural schools have begun to lessen their requirements and increase the pay again because they can't get anyone willing to spend a year in Jeolla teaching at 3 schools which have 25 students each.
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May 16, 2016 04:40
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I don't know if "someone who likes kpop" is quite the same as a koreaboo. Like enjoying the pop music doesn't mean you've moved to the country and put up with poo poo salary for it. Like, yeah most people enjoy kpop. Because most people enjoy pop period.
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In case anyone doesn't know already, there's one of those annoying emergency drills where they stop all the traffic today at 2 PM.
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Grand Fromage posted:They were loving everywhere in the last bunch before I left. I assumed the problem would be getting worse with time.
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By the end there were people I had to stop being around because the only things they ever talked about were Coffee Prince and G Dragon or whatever the gently caress. I don't remember any of that when I first got there. Kpop only ever came up to complain about how annoying it was and the only TV in Korea was the channel that showed nothing but Steven Seagal movies.
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Grand Fromage posted:the only TV in Korea was the channel that showed nothing but Steven Seagal movies. This is a bad thing? 
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Unfunny Poster posted:This is a bad thing? No it was the best thing. That and the DVD bang we found that had a shelf of his complete works.
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What is the international school situation in Korea like? I am thinking about making the plunge again.
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Grand Fromage posted:No it was the best thing. That and the DVD bang we found that had a shelf of his complete works. I remember going to Korea when my brother lived there with the Army and having a blast at how much they loved such shlock films. It only was paled by Thailands love for the same stuff 
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Can we switch to kpop chat just to irk people? The people most sensitive to it aren't even in country anymore so their feelings don't matter. It's almost time for summer girl group songs! Whose do you think will have the best song/video? Last years winners for song were clearly Sistar with AoA as a close second. However that was largely due to a poor showing from Girl's Day normally take the category. What are your thoughts? No fair naming a third group because I might not know who they are.
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twice gonna come back swinging after their poor follow up to a strong opening.
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Yeah Cheer Up being so forgettable after Ooh Aah was such a solid pop hit sucked! Doubt they'll be joining in on the summer hits so quickly though. Oh hey AoA's entry is in. Everyone in chat has watched and discussed but are too big of pussies to post here and have kpop on their permanent record but idgaf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sno_genwMz8 It's pretty boring. Next! Bugblatter fucked around with this message at 10:03 on May 16, 2016 |
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May 16, 2016 09:07
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Bugblatter posted:Can we switch to kpop chat just to irk people? The people most sensitive to it aren't even in country anymore so their feelings don't matter. Last summer top three Girls Day - Ring my Bell Aoa - Heart attack Cupid - I feel good haven't heard a good song this year yet
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On the K topic, I feel the need to stick a toe into Kdrama since my kids keep bringing up some "Sweet Honey" one up in class that they watch with subtitles. What's a good one to watch?
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May 16, 2016 10:24
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dream high since its got all the classic kpop stars
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I'm voting for the centaurs
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Apparently Descendants of the Sun, 태양의 후예 is the second coming of christ. Its supposed to be good. Also yeah Twice better have something decent. Chore Up's only purpose is to be spam taunt in Overwatch matches.
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Hey now, I am coming to Korea for a short trip 6.4-6.12; granted I lived in Korea for about 6 years and left a year and a half ago for Taiwan, so I don't count. I have the same refrain for everyone: get out of English teaching. Get out of 헬조선 and watch your stress float away.
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If you're around Busan during then, hit me up. e. I'll probably be at baseball games nearly daily. Maxsmart fucked around with this message at 12:56 on May 16, 2016 |
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Bugblatter posted:Yeah Cheer Up being so forgettable after Ooh Aah was such a solid pop hit sucked! Doubt they'll be joining in on the summer hits so quickly though. They had to take this video down and reupload because they forgot to blur out the Japanese car manufacturers. 
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Whizbang posted:In case anyone doesn't know already, there's one of those annoying emergency drills where they stop all the traffic today at 2 PM. Stop traffic? You mean the red light? Never seen anyone bother with those. In Gangnam the traffic never slowed and in the school we taught through it. My coworkers at the law firm say it's done to get people used to it in case of an attack so they're calm. They remembered stopping class and going outside as a kid 30 years ago.
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Wait, is the chorus from Cheer Up actually supposed to be "Cheer up?" Cause if so, holy christ the pronunciation is wretched even by kpop standards, to the point where I assumed it must be Korean and the English title is never spoken.Whizbang posted:They had to take this video down and reupload because they forgot to blur out the Japanese car manufacturers. Also one of the members had some faint shadows in a shot that soooort of looked like underboob but were probably compression artifacts yet it still outraged people, so they had to fix those. Still not as funny as the time almost all of an snsd video was lost during editing because the companies hard drive crashed and their was no backup, so the final result was just a few headshots run through goofy video filters and like .5 seconds of dancing. Bugblatter fucked around with this message at 23:20 on May 16, 2016 |
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My buddy is planning on teaching in Korea, he has teaching experience elsewhere and has a Tesol and all that. Do any of y'all have a go to recruiter. He's Vietnamese-Australian so I'm worried a lot of Hagwons will be mysteriously uninterested in him. He's OK with country positions (Even though I've told him he's more likely to see racism there). Should he be expecting 2.2-2.3 or have wages gone up/down?
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Eifert Posting posted:My buddy is planning on teaching in Korea, he has teaching experience elsewhere and has a Tesol and all that. Do any of y'all have a go to recruiter. He's Vietnamese-Australian so I'm worried a lot of Hagwons will be mysteriously uninterested in him. He's OK with country positions (Even though I've told him he's more likely to see racism there). Should he be expecting 2.2-2.3 or have wages gone up/down? Should be 2.3 for rural with the year of teaching experience + tesol. If he gets a truly rural post (not just suburbs) he might have 2.4-2.5 after the additional bonus. I think Korvia is the recruiter everyone in chat uses. Since I coincidentally have the Epik page open, Incheon, Busan and Daegu would pay him 2.1, and Jeju or smaller cities will pay 2.2. Bugblatter fucked around with this message at 01:22 on May 17, 2016 |
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Bugblatter posted:Still not as funny as the time almost all of an snsd video was lost during editing because the companies hard drive crashed and their was no backup, so the final result was just a few headshots run through goofy video filters and like .5 seconds of dancing. 
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TreFitty posted:lol, as a guy that deals with this kind of customer (from an IT standpoint) daily, this is hilarious. Got links? As someone who works in film it was hilarious because it means they were editing on the original data dump drive, which you never do for a host a reasons. It's amateurish as gently caress. I don't have the links, but googling girls generation hard drive might pull the news stories up. Or you'll find koreaboos talking about their creepy image collections. Whichever. In other weird kpop news, AoA gave a tearful apology for not recognizing several famous figures in Korean history during a game show hosted by their own company. Said extremely tearful apology was given while wearing the red baywatch swimsuits from their new song. It is weird and probably someone's fetish.
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Korea Megathread VII: It is weird and probably someone's fetish.
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Bugblatter posted:Wait, is the chorus from Cheer Up actually supposed to be "Cheer up?" Cause if so, holy christ the pronunciation is wretched even by kpop standards, to the point where I assumed it must be Korean and the English title is never spoken. I switched tabs from the youtube video with captions(?) and heard "shut up" "shut up"
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DontAskKant posted:Korea Megathread VII: It is weird and probably someone's fetish.
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DontAskKant posted:Korea Megathread VII: It is weird and probably someone's fetish. Not emptyquoting.
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I like our current title too much. But if we changed "someone" to "the lummox," I'd be okay with it.
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Grand Fromage posted:No it was the best thing. That and the DVD bang we found that had a shelf of his complete works. I spent a week withdrawing from alcohol in a room bang (what's it called? Where you can rent a lovely hotel for a week or so?) and it was nonstop nick cage and that chat chat was not not a seizure and not gonna gonna. Fuckn sucks,
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BrainDance posted:I spent a week withdrawing from alcohol in a room bang (what's it called? Where you can rent a lovely hotel for a week or so?) and it was nonstop nick cage and that chat chat was not not a seizure and not gonna gonna. Fuckn sucks, I have a feeling that you're the kind of person that makes a lot of bad decisions. The word you are looking for is goshiwon 고시원
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ladron posted:I have a feeling that you're the kind of person that makes a lot of bad decisions. More right than you could possibly know.
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If anyone in Korea is willing to act as a middleman to order some hobby parts, take delivery, and forward them on to me, I'm willing to throw a fiver your way for your troubles: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3778190&perpage=40&pagenumber=1#pti2 Details in the post.
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