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 Thursday May 28 2009

Beware Foreign Teachers

With all the bad press foreign English teachers get in Korea it’s hard to stay positive. It also seems that there is some scaremongering going on about foreign teachers and swine flu. Anyhow ZenKimchii posted a pic of a poster his boss put up to let off steam about this issue. For those to dense to realize this is clearly tongue in cheek.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday May 28, 2009 at 07:15 AM
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jay wrote 21 words  on  Saturday Jun 6, 2009  at  01:32 PM China

I’m absolutely speechless!  I would seriously lose it if this was posted anywhere other than the bottom of a garbage pit!

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Mr.G wrote 8 words  on  Monday Jun 8, 2009  at  09:03 AM Colombia

I just wanna know how true this is.

Sean.

Sean. wrote 10 words  on  Monday Jun 8, 2009  at  09:45 AM China

It’s not true, but Korean press is encouraging this belief.

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Clarissa wrote 44 words  on  Thursday Jun 11, 2009  at  04:43 AM United States

Oh, dear, that’s hilarious in an awful kind of way.
By the way, although comments were off on the post, thanks for the IPA-typing thing. I’m going to link to it on my teaching blog (linked above) and I’ll cite you as the source!

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