Comments on: Destination: Seoul Lantern Festival (2009) https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009-south-korea/ Find what's worthy. Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Chris import https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009-south-korea/#comment-1171 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:45:07 +0000 https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009/#comment-1171 @Acorn: so it sounds like the concern is about the word 'most'. Perhaps it could be fixed by saying 'most Americans' in Korea, or 'most people from English-speaking countries'. While it's at best a concern of mostly academic notions, I've corrected my profile to indicate that I'm like 'about 20,000' other foreigners in Korea.

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By: An Acorn in the Dog's Food https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009-south-korea/#comment-1170 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:21:25 +0000 https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009/#comment-1170 Well, your leading sentence is:

I'm Chris Backe – like most foreigners in Korea, I teach English as a full-time job / source of income.

According to the figures from Andrei Lankov (taken from the 30 July 2009 Ministry of Immigration Report — you've posted similar figures on your website as well) there are (roughly) 1,155,654 "foreigners" in Korea. If one adds up the figures from the USA, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain the result comes out to 159,409. Now, not everyone in Korea from one of those countries is an English teacher, but since it's hard to narrow things down any further we'll just have to assume that there's some inflation with the numbers. The total from the four nations comes out to 13.7% of the total.

Granted, that doesn't include teachers from South Africa, Ireland, or New Zealand — so let's throw in everyone that was recorded in the "Other" category as well. This will once again include a large number of people who aren't English teachers, so keep in mind that the final tally will be even more exaggerated. The extra 40,633 from that category brings our total up to 200,042 for 17% of the total population. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen a definition of "most" that would allow one to claim that 17% of a population qualifies as "most" of that population.

So yeah, it is misleading (or "silly") to call it "Visit Korea Year" while listing three years in the advertisement, but it's also misleading (or "silly") to say "most" foreigners are English teachers when that's clearly not the case. 😉

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By: Chris import https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009-south-korea/#comment-1169 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:17:36 +0000 https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009/#comment-1169 @Acorn: Incorrect info in my profile? Please explain – I know it's an old picture BTW…

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By: An Acorn in the Dog's Food https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009-south-korea/#comment-1167 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:27:35 +0000 https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009/#comment-1167 OK, this lantern's got me. Anybody have a clue?

As Tuttle already pointed out, it's a reference to Peking (Beijing) Theater.

All 12 Chinese astrological animals are presented anthropomorphically correct – no idea why a snake gets arms, but it does.

Did they also have legs? If not I could very easily see arms being used in place of vestigial legs.

[…]the Lantern Festival, sponsored by the rather silly-named 'Visit Korea Year'.

I don't know … is it any worse than the incorrect information you have in your profile information? 😉

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By: Anonymous https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009-south-korea/#comment-1166 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:36:35 +0000 https://worthygo.com/destination-seoul-lantern-festival-2009/#comment-1166 Gorgeous photos! Thanks!~

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