I’ve already written to exhaustive posts about this subject, but I have finally found the way to express my thoughts on certain elements of a program change we’re just starting in on, where I work. I’m going to use an analogy here.
Month: March 2005
Calling All Koreans: Did You Ever See This Show?
There’s a story out there which may or may not be an Urban Legend, and I’m wondering if anyone knows either way. It’s been claimed that the TV show “Joanie Loves Chachi” was one of the top-rated American TV shows on Korean TV, and that I was popular because the names of the characters were Koreanised in such a way that the name of the character Chachi sounded more like 조지, the kiddie term for penis. Now, Chachi doesn’t sound like 조지 to me, but sometimes English gets transliterated into Hangeul in ways that mystify me, so I can’t be …
Fans Don’t Kill People
Except in Korea. FanDeath.net. Heh. And no, fans don’t kill people. They may make a room cold, or somehow set up conditions which bring on heart attacks or strokes or other things, but there’s no way in hell that fans kill people, any more than sex kills old men because it excites them enough to give them a heart attack. We don’t call that “Sex Death”, do we? Ah, well, maybe in Korean it is called Sex Death, I don’t know. In which case, if the cause of death is ascribed to the catalyst of the physical crisis—the stroke, heart …
I Had Half a Good Post Written
… and then it was lost to the aether. It was about curriculum, program changes, and levelling programs, and how an educational institutions can effectively implement programs and program changes in a way that is centered on student benefit. It’s not really a whine-and-bitch session, but it does focus on the fact that realistic, honest assessment of negative factors is necessary if any real improvement is to be made. It also focuses on the idea of student-centered program implementation, and how this relates to interdepartmental politics. While it’s particularly true of the program change I’m witnessing now, it’s also true …
Shorthand of Korea
Peemil at Where are my socks? encapsulates Korea in a descriiption of PC Rooms: Korean PC rooms are a world apart from anything else I have seen in the West. They are part of what makes this country what it is. A noisy, smoky environment with alot of people swearing at stuff that really doesn’t mean alot at the end of the day. Lovely.