ROK Drop Open Thread – February 19, 2017

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MTB Rider
MTB Rider
7 years ago

And a wonderful teaching opportunity just opened up for one of ROK Drop’s favorite English Teachers!
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=224318

By Lee Han-soo

Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), North Korea’s first privately funded university, is recruiting English teachers.

The school is receiving applications from candidates in dozens of countries, many of which are ironically non-English speaking countries such as South Korea, China and Japan

“Preference is given to candidates who have a long-term mindset and are open to staying at PUST for a number of years,” the university says in its recruiting message on http://www.heysuccess.com , a British recruiting website.

“English teachers are required to commit to an entire 15-week semester. The spring semester begins in early March and finishes in mid-June. The fall semester begins in early September and finishes in mid-December.”

Detailed working conditions such as salary and welfare are unknown.

The university says the ideal candidate will be an “energetic, responsible, and well-qualified professional teacher with relevant English teaching experience.” It It says an English teaching qualification (TEFL/ CELTA/ TESOL) is also highly preferred.

Successful applicants are supposed to have a campus-based lifestyle, meaning they may not be allowed to travel outside the campus.

All our special candidate needs to do is finish his current sentence, and apply! I’m sure several of us would be willing to write him a glowing letter of recommendation.

Ole Tanker
Ole Tanker
7 years ago

LTG. H.R. McMaster has been appointed as National Security Adviser. He was awarded the Silver Star in the Battle of 73 Easting. He was Armor Cavalry. A man who understands the nature of warfare, bodes well for the future Armor Force. I was hoping he would get it. 😎

Smokes
Smokes
Reply to  Ole Tanker
7 years ago

Knowledgeable guy, very approachable and one of the few senior officers I met who was able to hold normal conversations.

Smokes
Smokes
Reply to  GIKorea
7 years ago

People in the media are confused. I blame celebrity, reporters rarely make it to broadcast and all you see are the talking heads.

They use the term MSM in the 3rd person when it obviously applies to them. All the organizations do it, reference the MSM like it’s all the other ones except them (FOX, CNN, etc.). Here’s a tip, if you have a multi-gazillion dollar entity that broadcasts on the air, you are the MSM.

This is a broader version of the trick they use to report on something that’s obviously being over-reported by not reporting on it but by reporting on the possibility that it’s being over-reported.

The other big issue is that they’re confusing Freedom of Press with Freedom of (from)Scrutiny. You can’t push narratives and agendas while running click-bait and theming your broadcasts in a clearly entertainment-based manner and call yourself news reporters. Even the former King of Liberalica his highness Jon Stewart called them out on it repeatedly. If you wish protections of press you need to behave like press, not like a talk show.

As long as POTUS refrains from taking a position that pits the press against the people I don’t have an issue with him voicing displeasure. Saying they’re the enemy of the people would not be doing that and he needs to scale it back some.

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
7 years ago

Interesting article about Kim Chi Pot Gate:
http://korea.stripes.com/base-info/story-behind-kimchi-pot-gate#sthash.YuNM5Dx2.dpbs

It’s a little old, but I had always wondered what that was all about, and why the Army let her stack her pots there.

guitard
guitard
Reply to  MTB Rider
7 years ago

Actually, PUST has an interesting history and was started by a Korean-American professor named Kim Chin Kyung (AKA James Kim) who first set up a similar school in China (in the autonomous Korean region). Professor Kim worked it out with Kim Jong Il to set up a similar school in Pyongyang. All teaching at PUST is conducted in English.

guitard
guitard
Reply to  MTB Rider
7 years ago

My wife bought a few pots there last summer. Price seemed kind of high, but we really didn’t have a basis of comparison. A few months later we were driving out in the country and passed a place selling pots and stopped by. The pots cost only a fraction of what the lady at the kimchi pot gate charged. I’m not saying we got ripped off, because I know everything costs more in Seoul and she kind of has the market cornered there. But for what my wife payed for two pots near the gate – she bought six or seven pots at the country place.

Denny
Denny
7 years ago

Racism played a role in Flint water crisis, says state report

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/02/racism_played_a_role_in_flint.html

Denny
Denny
7 years ago

South Korea will take lead in life expectancy by 2030

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/21/health/life-expectancy-increase-globally-by-2030/

Smokes at Work
Smokes at Work
Reply to  MTB Rider
7 years ago

Heh watch it’ll come out years from now she was a DPRK agent and had all kinds of surveillance equipment hidden in the pots. 🙂

JoeC
JoeC
Reply to  Ole Tanker
7 years ago

McMasters will be The Hand but Bannon will be there in the role of Littlefinger.

Ole Tanker
Ole Tanker
Reply to  JoeC
7 years ago

Then, Trump must be the Middle Finger! 😎

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
7 years ago

Kim Chi Pot Gate

Seriously?

I hit that clickbait looking for a captivating story of intrigue and exposure amid the dirty business of underground kimchee pot sales and military corruption that allows it to flourish.

Instead, I got some uplifting tripe about a dilligent woman working herself out of poverty by selling kimchee pots outside a gate.

What the hell is wrong with you people?

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
Reply to  ChickenHead
7 years ago

Sorry… I’ll find some Tranny Stories for you later. 😉

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
7 years ago

Woooo.. tranny stories!

It is hard to go wrong with tranny stories.

Find one about a sneaky uncle that made them dress as a girl.

And don’t short me on the anal warts.

Liz
Liz
Reply to  GIKorea
7 years ago

I love the title:
Trump administration withdraws federal protections for transgender students

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
7 years ago

When I walk onto the lady’s room dressed as a lady, none them mfukkers say shyt.

I whip ouy my lady package and give it a couple helicopter twirls.

Any y’all got something to say about this? No? Thought not. Now get back to class, you little biatches. Recess is about over.

In other news, the media has spun this as if Trump has taken away “rights”.

While in the great scheme of things, it probably doesn’t matter which bathroom someone uses… and trannys aren’t much overlapping with the pedo demographic…

…but a large percentage of the population don’t want their daughters in a stall next to a lazy tranny standing up to pee.

This is kinda understandable.

Trump did not “take away rights” but simply returned this decision to states… as he is rightfully doing with many other things.

He also included language for schools to insure that trannys are not bullied.

The federal government needs to be in the business of border protection, defense, international trade, and a few other things… and sray out of fretting over bathroom micromanagement.

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