블로그 후기(34시간 후) : 이 블로그를 시작하면서부터 한국인으로서 여론을 대변하고자 했습니다. 제가 그것을 잘못 판단했을 수도 있지만, 여론이라는 게 가볍게 번지는 감정에 쉽게 변질되는 듯합니다.
블랙아웃코리아 블로그에 대항하기 위해 만들어진 본 블로그의 시작은 (접근이) 틀렸으며, 순전히 저의 잘못으로서 오래도록 잊지 않겠습니다. 차라리 '한국을 사랑하는 이가 한국인'이라는 저의 오랜 신념을 따를 걸 그랬네요. 아울러 그렇게 한국을 사랑해주시는 영어선생님들께 진심으로 사과드립니다.
여기, '만취해서 길에 쓰러진 사람들'과 관련하여, 한국사회에서 통용되는 또 다른 오랜 믿음들이 있습니다.
① 가장 나쁜 사람은 함께 술을 마신 자.
② 나쁜 사람은 무관심하게 지나치거나 경찰에 연락하지 않는 자.
③ 머저리들은 그렇게 위험에 처한 사람들을 놀잇감으로 삼는다(조롱하거나 사진을 찍거나) ← 솔직히 이건 한국에서는 상상할 수조차 없는 일이었습니다.. 블랙아웃코리아의 창조적인(?) 활동이 있기 전까지..
제가 아는 모든 사람들은 2번을 의식하고 있으며 오직 소수만이 여전히 1번을 맘 속에 담아두고 있습니다. 그러나 불행히도 저는 우리가 3번으로 이동함을 느낍니다. 블랙아웃코리아의 머저리들에 보다 가까운 수준으로 말이지요.
블로그를 운영하면서 저는 한국 학교들이 '원어민 선생님'으로서 젊고 반반한 얼굴들을 선호함을 알 수 있었습니다. 저의 한국어 블로그를 통해 방문하신 분들께서는 부디 기억해주세요, "우리 학교에는 연륜 있고 바른 심성의 선생님들이 필요합니다."
Postscript(written after 34 hours) : From the first of this blog, I have been trying to keep my position in the center of Public Opinion(as a Korean). Although there is a possibility of misreading it, I find the public opinion is easily affected(spoiled) by light feelings spreading out in society. The start of this counter-blog against
Black Out Korea was already spoiled and that's my clear fault which I should remember until my death. I'd better to keep my old belief that somebody loving Korea is a Korean. I'm so sorry to such English teachers in Korea.
Here are another old beliefs fading in Korean society, related to passed out persons on streets :
① The worst people are who drank with them.
② The bad people are who passed by them without trying to care or calling police.
③ Idiots treat them as playthings(ridiculing, taking a memorial picture..) ← Frankly this was an unimaginable thing in Korea before the creative(?) works of Black Out Korea Blog.
All Korean people whom I know stay in consciousness of #2 and only small portion of us still keep #1 in minds. But unfortunately I feel we are going to #3, closer to the idiots of Black Out Korea Blog.
As managing this blog, I could realize that Korean academies(public or private) prefer young good faces as teachers. Visitors coming through my Korean blog, please remember we need old good minds in our academy.
Yesterday afternoon I found it's difficult for me to respond to all English comments, now I open comment section again. Probably I can't respond, SORRY. Just one kind of comment will be surely deleted, which tries to legitimize the optical violences of Black Out Korea.
※ To idiots coming from Black Out Korea : We won't forget you all. It's seriously because we should not be similar to you.
This blog was born with seemingly wrong named URL and Main-title AFTER some information was taken about the author of Black Out Korea. My first choice of them was reasonable and logical at that time. BUT As I repeated several times, just because there are many English teachers having good(beautiful) minds in Korea, I don't insist 'everything is right on this blog' any more. (←written after 36 hours in response to a comment/ check 'Reactions')
[The body of this post]
It's a clear fact that
most English teachers working in Korea are not qualified to teach a language. They just grew up in English countries. If you couldn't understand what they were saying in classes then they would volume up or speak the same in lower speeds. They are
never going to study Korean language. The reason is same with why US Army didn't try to study Arabic in Abu Ghraib.
한국에서 영어를 가르치는
대부분의 원어민강사들 수준이 매우 낮다는 것은 기정 사실이다. 그들은 단지 영어를 사용하는 나라에서 자랐다는 이유 때문에 한국으로 들어와 '선생' 대접을 받고 있다. 당신의 학교나 학원에서 일하는 원어민 영어교사들은 한국어를 몇 단어나 구사할 수 있는가? 그들이 뭔가 지껄일 때, 그걸 당신이 알아듣지 못하면 더 큰 소리로 아니면 더 천천히 똑같은 말을 지껄이겠지. 그들은
결단코 한국어를 배우지 않는다. 아부 그라이브 수용소에서 포로들을 학대하는 미군들이 아랍어를 공부하지 않았던 이유와 동일하다.
Probably you remember what happened in Abu Ghraib.
아부 그라이브 포로수용소에서는 이런 일들이 일어났다.
(ridiculing & taking memorial pictures of people who lost resistance)
Now in Korea! They are ridiculing drunken people on roads with much pleasure! Find your teachers!
그리고 지금 당신의 원어민 영어교사들은 한국에서 이런 장난을 즐기고 있다.
(ridiculing & taking memorial pictures of people who lost resistance)
Additional Notes(written after 17 hours) : When I opened this blog with much anger to
Black Out Korea Blog, I noticed something wrong here soon. Yes, it's believable that there are many good English teachers in Korea. So 'most English teachers are not (morally) qualified' is wrong. In fact, I already decided to shut down this blog within
several days. My
final CRY to idiots is,
"The bad minds tempting you to take a joyful picture with someone in danger are exactly same with the minds got powered in Abu Ghraib."
추가 내용(17시간 후) : 내가 '블랙아웃코리아'에 잔뜩 화가 나 이 블로그를 개설했을 때, 나는 곧 여기 뭔가 잘못이 있다는 걸 알아챘다. 맞아, 한국에는 많은 수의 좋은 영어 강사들이 활동하고 있을 것이다. 그래서 '대부분의 영어 강사들이 (도덕적으로) 자질이 없다'는 발언은 틀렸다. 사실상,
며칠 안에 이 블로그를 내리기로 이미 결심했다.
마지막으로 그 멍청이들에게 외친다,
"네가 위험에 처한 사람과 즐거운 사진을 찍도록 뽐뿌질하는 마음은 한때 '아부 그라이브'를 장악했던 마음과 완전히 동일하다."
Additional Notes(written after 19 hours) : When I was an officer of Korean Army, my small military unit was in charge of the central
combat zone's front lines with some US Army's units. During 3 years, 2 US soldiers deserted their colors after killing their superiors with guns. They were all drunken but never slept on streets! Instead, they drove cars to reach pubs quickly.
Drink → Blow off superior's head → Drive → Drink → Be caught
Idiots of
Black Out Korea Blog may shout, "It's Cooool." Each day, I had to force my soldiers to catch the drunken killer. But we were not armored to avoid a street battle with him. It was so cool night.
You, foreigners from the west tend to regard yourselves as forward cultured people. It's not! Most of you are? It's not too! Only a few of you are really forward cultured people.
추가 내용(19시간 후) : 내가 중부전선 최전방에서 근무할 때, 3년 동안 2명의 미군이 상관을 총으로 쏴 죽이고 탈영했다. 그들은 모두 취했었지만 결코 땅바닥에 드러누워 잠들지는 않았지. 대신, 그들은 맥주집에 보다 빨리 도착하기 위해 차를 몰았다.
마시고 → 상관의 머리통을 날려버리고 → 운전하고 → 또 마시다가 → 잡혔다
'블랙아웃코리아'의 머저리들은 아마도 외치겠지, "와우 멋진데" 그 각각의 두 날에, 나는 부하들과 그 술취한 살인자를 잡으러 나섰다. 그러나 우리는 그와의 시가전을 피하기 위해 무장하지 않았다. 정말 추운 밤이었다.
당신들, 서양에서 온 외국인들은 자신들을 '앞서가는 문화시민'이라 간주하는 경향이 있다. 그렇지 않아! (모두는 아니더라도) 대부분은 그럴까? 역시 그렇지 않아! 당신들 중 고작 몇몇만이 진정으로 앞서가는 문화시민이다.
Additional Notes(written after 24 hours) : My friend(Korean) introduced me
a comment in Black Out Korea Blog and that made me definitely sad → "I have my masters degree in teaching. I've lived in Korea for almost 10 years. I am studying Korean. But I wont stay in Korea. No matter what I do I will never be welcomed here. A few people act stupid and I always get blamed as well for their mistakes. Everyone thinks that because I am white I am a looser who couldnt get a job back home. Korean's tell me to get out of their country. Why did your country invite me here then? / Why cant we see this blog for what it is? The passed out people are idiots and so are the people posing with them. This is not a Korean or a foreigner issue. Both groups are idiots."
추가 내용(24시간 후) : 친구가 블랙아웃코리아에 오른 댓글 하나를 소개해줬고 그것은 나를 완전히 슬프게 만들어버렸다 → "나는 교육학 석사 학위를 가지고 있다. 이곳 한국에서 거진 10년을 살았지. 나는 한국어를 공부한다. 그러나 난 이 곳에 머무를 수가 없군. 내가 뭘 하든 난 여기서 환영받지를 못해. 몇몇이 멍청한 짓거리를 하고 나는 항상 그들과 똑같은 비난을 받는다구. 내가 (그들과 같은) 백인이고 본국에 돌아가면 직장을 얻지 못할 패배자이기 때문에 그런 대접을 받아야 한다고 모두들 생각해. 한국인들은 나더러 그들 나라를 떠나라고 한다. 그럼 너네 나라는 왜 날 여기에 불러들였어? / 왜 우리 모두는 이 블랙아웃코리아 블로그가 진정 무엇인지를 알아채지 못하는 걸까? 만취한 사람들은 머저리들이고 그들을 놓고 사진을 찍는 사람들도 역시 머저리들이야. 이건 한국인이냐 외국인이냐의 문제가 아니야. 양쪽 다 머저리들이다."
Idiot Photos were from GREAT
'Black Out Korea' Blog.
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ZenKimchi said, "Yeah, the only thing I see bad about this is the passed out drunks. And it doesn't look like those are all English teachers."
Answer : It's clear that all of drunken people in photos are not all of Korean adults. But it's not clear if those idiots ridiculing the drunken people are not all English teachers. Additionally repeatedly it's a clear fact that
most English teachers working in Korea are not qualified to teach a language.
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Stafford said, something funny.
Answer : You forgot who you were but I remember you who insisted your privacy against Google Street Views. I don't have much to say about 'English Teachers in Korea' any more because I have friends in them. Just hope you to realize a fact that you can sleep on a street in Korea. No one will hurt you as you heard a news in your country. Your only one crisis is to be uploaded on the Black Out Korea Blog with smiling idiots.
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holterbarbour said, "Iraqis seem really conservative, but they really let go at night! You can't go anywhere around Baghdad late at night without seeing a bunch standing around naked with bags on their heads, lying down on floors with collars and leashes around their necks, getting into naked pyramids and such. But seriously, if they're cool with such self-imposed humiliation, why not pose for a picture with them?"
Historical Notes for the others : When I saw his comment first I thought he made a some point. His looked educated. So I visited his blog and left a comment, "You and I are all educated persons.. but you seemed to make a mistake on writing a comment on my blog. Please check yours again." Now I find he has erased his blog clearly instead of correcting his wrong comment :-/ Therefore I made an archive of his blog (totally) for him kindly as a pdf file, so "holterbarbour, call me whenever you need to view your past blog."
※ here is his comment
※ here is a portion of his blog Urggg...
+ It's hard to accept you are a (most?) benign person who smiles at trivially interesting findings in everyday life. You and I know that you have a special ability to find out FREAKING Super Mario in a bus. You can find FREAKING one in a group of Korean people! / If I were you, I would say, "I'm sorry. The last sentence of my comment was a joke." There is no reason to chase you if you are not in those idiot photos. At least I'm chasing NO one because I have much work to do like you.
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Darth Babaganoosh said, "First of all, define "qualified". Second, just for the argument's sake, let's assume you're right: most English teachers in Korea are not qualified to teach English. My question then becomes: Whose fault is that? Is Korean Immigration at fault for only requiring a university degree and a clean criminal record as qualifications? Or are schools at fault when they refuse to hire more qualified teachers, choosing instead to hire younger teachers with ZERO teaching background or experience? I have a background in English education and 20+ years of teaching experience in several subjects--not only English--in four different countries, and yet I've lost more than one job to "teachers" fresh out of university, who have never had a job before, have never taught before, and have no background in education. So whose fault is it again that "unqualified" teachers get hired in Korea, and experienced teachers are not?
Answer : I am a mechanical engineer in Korea. My Korean Blog is
http://dynafeel.blog.me. In Korea, a teacher is the teacher advising what is right(or wrong). Probably you know our problems exactly. You should be our teacher! PLEASE open your Google Profile for any Korean School Administrator to show respects to you.
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Foreigner Joy said, "Schools ask for certain qualifications to hire us. One: Must have a BA from an English speaking country, Two: Be healthy. Those are the major ones. Very little do they ask us to be "Moral standing citizens" or have degrees in English, teaching experience...etc. Your own country sets the standards for which brings us over here. Still, being qualified or not people are going to do what they want. If you don't want to have this kind of behavior in your country then wouldn't it be better to talk to us in a community setting, instead of lashing out on the internet? Because we see the kind of drunken-cut-loose Korean culture we likely feel it is okay to feel free to do the same. I don't like "Black OUt Korea" and I don't like this blog either. Because neither are finding a way to communicate effectively with each other, and instead just cause anger.
Answer : Thanks for your considerable comment. I do dislike this blog too indeed.
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Roboseyo said, "what would you say if I told you I knew the writer of Blackout Korea's blog, that he has a Ph.D in Korean studies, and speaks Korean fluently, teaches at a university in Korea, and has tried everything a scholar can do to start a public discussion about the international disgrace that Korea's public drunkenness is... but no reporter or journalist would take up his story, no other scholars cared, and so he finally made the website blackout Korea in hopes that THIS method would finally cause a public discussion in Korea about public drunkenness. You don't know who made the site blackout Korea. You're assuming an awful lot, to automatically think it's an English teacher."
+ I find it confusing that your blog name is "englishteachersout" instead of something actually related to the stated purpose of your blog - for example "Blackoutkorea is a dumb blog" -- you seem to be conflating blackout korea with ALL english teachers, which is racist and wrong.
Answer : You skipped three things,
① There are ethics to be kept in every social(or scientific) experiment.
② Public discussions have been existing all the time, about World's drunkenness, foreign criminals and low quality English teachers in Korea.
③ I am blaming all of idiots in Photos, not only their King idiot.
+ As you see my writings(I hope), I try to write logically. The URL of this blog(englishteachersout) and its title(Who teaches English in Korea) are strongly related to Black Out Korea Blog. Hint : I said, "teaches".
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Seeing Seoul said, "Nowhere does the Republic of Korea stipulate that these foreign teachers must NOT enjoy taking photos of themselves with Koreans who have had too much to drink."
Answer : I understand your mention doesn't mean you will copy the idiot behavior tonight because I assume you as a morally qualified English teacher. Please read and understand what author is pointing out before you comment something on the internet.
