Dangers of a blog

[marksurendra]

Has anyone experienced a school or employer finding a blog and negatively impacting their ability to get a job?  I'm afraid that if I were to say one small bad thing (or a few) it may come back to haunt me.

[freedomdragon]

keeping your blog, social media, anonymous or under a false name will distance oneself from things said on blogs or facebook.

[justanotherwaygook]

Does anyone read your blog other than your grandmother and college roommate?
If yes, maybe you could get into trouble.

If no, then don't worry.  I'm sure Aunt Sally in Minnesota won't say anything.

[marksurendra]

Well not, random ppl and extended family members :p   As some one pointed out, blogs do turn up in google searches, so potential employers can use blogs/social media against.  I don't want to keep a blog per say, but because so many other blogs help ppl with decisions and insight, I wanted to try to give back to the commuity.

[saffainsoko]

Here's a thought: save your venting and rants for therapy. Blogs should be entertaining. If you don't put anything in your blog that could be incriminating, you have nothing to worry about.

[madison79]

Here's a thought: save your venting and rants for therapy. Blogs should be entertaining. If you don't put anything in your blog that could be incriminating, you have nothing to worry about.

See how keeping it all in does for your life. lol  Can't wait to see your rant someday.

OP:  Yeah, I would keep it pretty tame if ur planning on making it public but I do have a poker blog and Koreans are pretty anti-gambling. 

[skippy]

I remember one tale from Dave's of a poster getting in trouble with his public school for his travel blog.  Alas I do not remember the details and the story is gone from the site.  Tried google cache but nothing.

Another Korean blogger hassled for blog post in Brian in Jeollanam-do his was more hassled by a reporter.
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.kr/2010/04/investigated-by-immigration-over.html

Korea is also strange with libel and defamation laws.  Some strange things go on here with privacy.  My recommendation is do not tell about your blog to coworkers.  Use an alias.  Try to make sure no email or name can link to your real name.  Do not publish real names, use nicknames for school and location.  That is why Facebook can be so dangerous at times.  Most people are complete visible name wise.  Check and adjust your security settings. 

Some strange things you will notice with photos and video.  Many Korean shows will fuzz out images of people.   The ironic part is many waygooks are photographed and not fuzzed.  Waygooks are less likely to notice or complain.  You will see more of the hypocrisy during the summer.  Waygook cover in mud at festival take picture.  Korean Person do not take picture.  Ohh good looking foreign girl no problem take a picture.  Korean in bikini (tsk, tsk) still no photo.  You will notice some photographers hanging out at the beaches in the Summer and they are likely not their for swimming.   My point is you have some cute photo of your students.  Decide to post them up.  99.9 percent most likely things are fine, but that one crazy mother finds out and they will rant and scream and threaten.  I would post photos but avoid posting personal details like true names or school.

If you piss off the wrong person, they will find any reason in which to fight with.  That is what I think happened with the above travel blog guy.

One piece of luck is Korean citizens are less likely to use Western sites.  They usually keep to their Naver and Daum.  Through that is changing as more and more Koreans are checking out twitter and facebook.  If you want to interact with Koreans and they ask for email or facebook page you may consider a secondary/work account.  One to give to students, parents, and those people you want to keep at arms length.

Hope that helps.

[skippy]

Blast from the past!
http://waygook.org/index.php?topic=251.0

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2007/05/help_liable_for.html

[Densha Otoko]

Some strange things you will notice with photos and video.  Many Korean shows will fuzz out images of people.   The ironic part is many waygooks are photographed and not fuzzed.  Waygooks are less likely to notice or complain.  You will see more of the hypocrisy during the summer.  Waygook cover in mud at festival take picture.  Korean Person do not take picture.  Ohh good looking foreign girl no problem take a picture.  Korean in bikini (tsk, tsk) still no photo.  You will notice some photographers hanging out at the beaches in the Summer and they are likely not their for swimming.   My point is you have some cute photo of your students.  Decide to post them up.  99.9 percent most likely things are fine, but that one crazy mother finds out and they will rant and scream and threaten.  I would post photos but avoid posting personal details like true names or school.

My favorite example of that, from Daum's picture of the day:

[skippy]

That picture sums it right up!  Even better if there was a girl in a Bikini or foreigner running amok like holding a beer!

[cheezsteakwit]

I think I remember the story on Daves a few months ago about the blogger who got into trouble.

I believe he was getting income from advertismements on his blog, so that violated the terms of his contract / visa.
That MAY be the blogger that Skippy was referring to in one of the above posts.

I've thought about starting a blog, but haven't acted on it yet.  IF I do, I'll make sure its anonymous & I don't believe its a good idea to post pics of your kids on-line, even though my kids are high school aged. 

I'm a more talented photographer than writer (I believe) , so that'd be the type of blog I'd start IF I go through with it. 

[astoriagables]

I read this on another thread, that you can't get in trouble for advertising income if it goes to a non-Korean bank account.