January 27, 2017, 12:20:50 PM


American-owned Poly Needs Teachers for March
Details: 10:00 a.m. – 8:15 p.m. Mon/Wed/Fri (includes paid preparation) 10:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Tues/Thurs (includes paid preparation) 2.8~3.0 Million Won (depending on degree/experience) + All benefits listed below ***************************** Benefits offered: - Single, non-shared, furnished housing - Pre-paid airfare to and from Korea - Severance bonus upon the completion of the 1-year contract - National Medical Insurance: 50% - No weekend classes - No split shifts - No internet/telephone lessons - Fixed, scheduled teaching blocks (You will not be teaching past your scheduled hours.) About the School: We have been awarded a Best Brand award from the Korea Times as the top school in Junior Education for the past eight years, our students have won numerous awards in national English aptitude tests, and every student must pass a strict entrance test before being allowed to join our academy. We have numerous campuses throughout Korea. We have a good reputation among teachers and parents, and many of our teachers have resigned more than once. Our program is well-developed (a lot of curriculum by my own teaching staff), and we offer a very nice salary and benefit package. About Seongbuk Campus: Seongbuk POLY is most likely the only English academy in Korea owned and managed by a non-Korean and a former POLY teacher. For this reason, there are no awkward communication problems or cultural situations in-house. In addition, because I began teaching at POLY in 2001, I have spent many years using the same material that our teachers use. Some of our staff have been with me for years, and they will be more than happy to help you adjust. Seongbuk is the traditional center of Seoul, thus we are in close proximity to everything you would like to experience in the city, including universities, night life, nature, and traditional sites. Explore the area with Google Earth: 37°35’30.10”N 127° 0’43.93”E View our Kindergarten speeches on YouTube (Search: Seongbuk Poly) ***************************** The ideal applicant: The ideal applicant holds a degree in Education, English, Communications, or Linguistics. Teaching experience and/or experience in the field of childcare is almost a must. He/she is a blend of 3 main ingredients: love, discipline, and intelligence. Korean children are a bit more fragile than their Western cousins, and a little love goes a long way. I used to describe this quality as ‘gentleness,’ but I found that teachers can appear gentle without giving themselves to students, so I emphasize that the teachers must really care for the students. Discipline is required not only to keep up our tight schedule, but also to keep your students disciplined (while still remaining gentle!). There are SO many reasons why intelligence is required, but I hope most are obvious. He/she knows that this is a job and not a vacation, despite being far from home. Many people make EFL a career, and I expect such dedication. Above all else, he/she must love being around children because that is what it’s all about. Required Documents : °Resume °Original diploma (and copy with an apostille (US) or stamp from a Korean Embassy (Canada) °Transcripts – For our purposes and need not be sealed °Passport (valid up to 6 months) °Criminal Record Check with an apostille (US) or stamp from a Korean Embassy (Canada) °Applicants must also submit to a medical check/blood test upon arrival in Korea If you are interested in the position, please e-mail timgorin@seongbukpoly.com. For faster processing, please put "Applicant" in the subject heading.
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Offline Aurata

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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2017, 12:40:58 AM »
Quote from: eggieguffer on January 18, 2017, 03:55:10 PM
It's like anything. If people can talk about their experiences in an entertaining way and not go on about it too much, people will be interested.

I'm usually genuinely interested in most people's experiences. I mean if I met someone who had travelled somewhere I'd usually have them yarning on about their impressions. Because I'm interested in .. the world.

My interest hasn't really been repaid, I feel. When I go home, its like nobody wants to know. Maybe they find it intimidating that I've lived on every continent, who knows. But its head back in the sand. All they care about is footy and the pub. Absolutely mindless.
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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2017, 08:30:58 AM »
Quote from: Ptolemy on January 18, 2017, 11:38:41 PM
Quote from: Loki88 on January 18, 2017, 04:12:59 PM
Quote from: Aurata on January 18, 2017, 03:33:59 PM
Quote from: Loki88 on January 18, 2017, 03:19:42 PM
No one cares.
Intelligent people care, they have a natural curiosity.

No. Most people just don't care. Ones experiences will largely be irrelevant to 99.9% of the people they ever meet.

These posts are saying the same thing.

Intelligent people, say IQ 140+, are 0.4% of the population, and perhaps an impressive 75% of them care about global cultural differences. If we say 99% of non-intelligent people do not care, then 98.7% of people don't care.

However the people you meet is not random. If you rarely meet anyone except intelligent people, your experience will not "be irrelevant to 99.9% of the people you meet".

Meh. Kind of not really. I would argue that the more deciding factor is relevance to that persons potential experience. (Which seeing as Korea attracts mainly ESL teachers argues for average to slightly above average intelligence not higher.)

World cultures just aren't that interesting. People eat, work and sleep. How exactly they go about it varies a bit but overall it's pretty much the same.

Beyond that. It's entirely possible but I doubt there is a link between IQ and interest in foreign culture. I think there would be a stronger association with age than IQ actually.


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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2017, 09:48:14 AM »
I usually don't tell people back at home where I lived or where I have traveled too because it's usually followed by ignorant assumptions and I don't want to hear it.  I only share my travels stories with like-minded people. 
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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2017, 05:51:35 PM »
I now make things up. When people nag me about where I've been or what I've been doing in my life I tell them I've been in seclusion trying to overcome my troglydytic ways while simultaneously trying to discover my purpose in life.

When I've gone back on holiday, or fielded a couple of emails or messages the overwhelming response is that I'm now rich and then whoever it is hits me for a loan or in the case of my sister's friend, or some classmate I don't remember from middle school, a Christmas present because they've thought a lot about me in the time we haven't seen each other. No one has ever mentioned anything at all about where I've been. Just that I've been overseas; I'm rich; I owe them.

This reaction has caused me to re-evaluate my concept of politeness.
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Offline weigookin74

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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2017, 07:55:26 PM »
Quote from: Ptolemy on January 18, 2017, 11:38:41 PM
Quote from: Loki88 on January 18, 2017, 04:12:59 PM
Quote from: Aurata on January 18, 2017, 03:33:59 PM
Quote from: Loki88 on January 18, 2017, 03:19:42 PM
No one cares.
Intelligent people care, they have a natural curiosity.

No. Most people just don't care. Ones experiences will largely be irrelevant to 99.9% of the people they ever meet.

These posts are saying the same thing.

Intelligent people, say IQ 140+, are 0.4% of the population, and perhaps an impressive 75% of them care about global cultural differences. If we say 99% of non-intelligent people do not care, then 98.7% of people don't care.

However the people you meet is not random. If you rarely meet anyone except intelligent people, your experience will not "be irrelevant to 99.9% of the people you meet".

Only 140+?  I'd say being 115 or 120 and over you're doing well.  160 and up is Einstein territory.  Too smart means no social skills though. 

As for most people lacking any curiosity, well, that does describe many people, including even some ESLers.  How many would you meet at an expat place who only want to drink beer.  Ask about anything deep or intelligent or historical, etc and you'll get blank stares.  Happens to most folks anyhow. 
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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2017, 01:46:31 PM »
Personally, I've never understood people who base their identities off of geographical boundaries. That feels so.. limiting to me. Like "Oh yeah, I come from a piece of dirt at the Southernmost tip of Africa so that's all I am".

This sort of mentality not only inhibits you from allowing yourself to grow as a person and be more than the sum of your parts (or, rather, the sum of your environment) but it also allows others to create opinions on the type of person you are, based on the stereotypes and (limited) knowledge they may have of that geographical location and you're unequipped to educate them otherwise because, tragically, you view yourself the same way..

By all means, use your geographical space as a basis for your identity (i.e: I was born in South Africa ergo I am South African) but don't allow it to be the be-all and end-all of who you are.

Once you're comfortable with being *cringe* a global citizen, then the onus is on other people to either accept you for who you are or jog on.

Besides, if you go back to your home country and your best mates can't deal with the fact that your world is no longer the small town you grew up in.. do you really need them as mates? Sometimes you have to put on your big boy/girl pants and cut your losses. Seems like the author of the article was ignoring the fact that they had this option available to them.

 
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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2017, 02:45:23 PM »
Rycology I think is all fairness why we run into people who are like:

"I'm born in America, RED, WHITE, AND BLUE THESE COLORS DON'T RUN BEST COUNTRY ON EARTH AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT KISS MY A** AND LEAVE IT!!" folks is because that's all they have ever known all their lives.   If they never left their neighborhood (went to school in the same town, work in the same town etc) then you can't expect them to know any better. 
    And I know an argument can be made for US miltary but a lot of them (NOT ALL BUT SOME) go into those countries with a chip on their shoulder and are waiting for things to confirm their steroetypes about a country (i.e. Korean women are easy.  What makes you think that G.I. Joe?  Oh because I've gone to clubs in  Iteawon and the girls throw themselves at me and are desprate for my passport to get a greencard)  Where as people who don't surround themselves in those enviroments than they would know that only improvished Korean girls behave like that and the mass general population isn't itching to be in America like the way some might want to think.  I have even ran into military guys that say the Philippines is nothing but a 3 world country when in reality there are plenty of places in that counrty that are just as luxorious and anything you can find in Beverly Hills.  Even India has metropollian areas that are comparable to anything you would find in Los Angeles shopping districts.  Sure the infrastructure is different but it's really the same if not better to anything you can find in Western countries. 

Even here in Korea you have the "우리 나라" (This is our country) people who are damn proud of Korea and proudly identify as Korean 100%.  Those people usually can't afford to get a passport, an airline ticket, or really have no interest and hold great predjuices to anything different.  Not all though...like I said some can't afford it even though they may have a desire to go. 
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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2017, 05:49:02 PM »
Quote from: Piggydee on January 20, 2017, 02:45:23 PM
I think is all fairness why we run into people who are like:

"I'm born in America, RED, WHITE, AND BLUE THESE COLORS DON'T RUN BEST COUNTRY ON EARTH AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT KISS MY A** AND LEAVE IT!!" folks is because that's all they have ever known all their lives.   If they never left their neighborhood (went to school in the same town, work in the same town etc) then you can't expect them to know any better. 

^ That's like 50% of the people over on Dave's.  ;D

Humans are primates, and thus tribal. They are born into their little "team" by chance, and wave that team flag their whole life, even if they change their geographic location, most keep waving "their" flag. Primitive, but understandable I guess.
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Re: Going Home for Good? Then Shut Up About it.
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2017, 06:46:09 PM »
Canadian nationalism is stupid and obnoxious. South African nationalism is stupid and obnoxious. Korean nationalism is stupid and obnoxious, etc., etc. Although the United States is the greatest country in the world (if we define great as influential), those born into it can't (shouldn't) take credit for the accomplishments of those who went before them. They just happened to be born there. Those who work hard to make a country great should be applauded though.
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