* Go! Overseas presents 10 Don'ts for Teaching Abroad in South Korea.
* "Farmers in South Jeolla Province collected 100 tons of rice to help North Korea struggling from food shortages and contribute to the reunification," said a farmer in an NTDTV video report.
* A university student was found stripped and strangled in Mokpo.
* Roboseyo reiterates his complaints about lousy customer service at "western" restaurants in South Korea, a complaint I fully endorse.
* But, I still think the customer experience in South Korea is much better than what you'll find in the US, where customer service is considered beneath everyone's dignity and where standing at a counter usually involves dealing with somebody else's bullshit and personal problems. ThingsComeAround talks about that on Dave's ESL Cafe.
* Korea Beat translates an article about a teachers' union branch in Gangwon-do sticking up for sex offender teachers.On October 11 National Assembly Representative Kim Se-yeon (Grand National Party), a member of the comittee on education, science, and technology, said of the collective bargaining demands, which his office has received, that the union is demanding the elimination of indefinite transference of educational workers punished for offenses, including embezzlement, grade adjustment, and sex offenses, that have no relationship to their schools or work duties.
* GRRR Traveler writes about E-2 visa renewal headaches.
* The number of 'john school attendees' is increasing, writes the Korea Herald on the mandatory classes for those arrested for soliciting prostitutes. I posted on them in October 2008 following a Hankyoreh undercover report with this amusing sequence:We are told that in the morning there will be classes on the criminality and harmfulness of sex crimes and testimonials from women victimized by prostitution, followed in the afternoon by classes on AIDS education and sociodramas to improve sexual awareness.
Finally, it is lunchtime.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday morning.
A little experiment in compiling a brief link list every Monday of things that I couldn't work into posts of their own. My apologies for the continued twitterization of the blogosphere.
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5 comments:
Particularly liked the 10 Don'ts link. Good reading all round.
As for the Korea Beat article, what is defined as a 'sex crime' ?
Does it mean sleeping with a prostitute or raping a child?
It makes it more difficult to comment on the post, but I like a good link run every now and then. That's what blog originally were. And these days I find that I have less and less time to find and read all these new blogs out there. It's good to have a couple that can distill the info for you.
Thanks for including my post in your Monday morn section. You are a K-Superman for finding and disseminating news from fellow bloggers and I appreciate it. ;-)
I agree entirely about service in Korea -- far superior to service here in Canada. And without tipping!
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