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July 19, 2005

My school has a new bus driver!

My school, as do most other private English institutes (hogwans), pays a bus driver to pick up the students from wherever they come from, bring them to the school, and then take them home again. You can witness these private school buses picking up and dropping off kids until the wee hours of the morning; even on Saturdays. Sucks to go to school in Korea, eh?

To the point of this little story:

One of the, ahem, fat girls in our school (and shot-putting champion of her age-group in the city, not to mention the sister of the boy that shat himself a few weeks ago) has a habit of unknowingly slamming the bus door. One day last week, the bus driver wasn't able to distain his anger over this and told the poor girl what he though of her; that she was a fat pig (dumbed down translation). Of course, the girl's mother found out and told our director/owner/boss (wonjongnim). In an attempt to get an apology out of this bus driver, the driver decided to get pissed off over this and quit. As a result, wonjongnim had to spend a couple of days driving the kiddies around until he was able to get a new bus driver today.

It seems that many Koreans have a difficult time apologizing. This is one example of this.

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