WEEK 6

19. Oct. 8              Proverbs

20. Oct. 9              Trivia contest

21. Oct. 11            Cancer survivor skis to the North Pole

22. Oct. 12            Corporate Korea corks the bottle

19 Proverbs

In this class I'll ask you to tell me some Korean proverbs, and translate them into English.

I'll post them here!!!

20  Trivia contest

"Trivia" is non-essential information.  The following may or may not be questions in class!  I'll devide the class in half, and we'll see who are the trivia champions!!!

Name a style of music that starts with “B” (Blues, Ballad)

What country is east of Korea? (Japan)

What country is South of the United States? (Mexico)

Who wrote the book “Tom Sawyer?” (Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens)

What season comes after winter? (Spring)

What season comes before winter? (Fall)

What is three plus seven? (3+7=10)

How many minutes are in an hour? (60)

Can penguins fly? (No)

Who is the President of Russia? (Vladimir Putin)

What city is the capital or England? (London)

What city is the capital Brazil? (Brasilia)

What city is the capital of Columbia? (Bogota)

Who invented Hangul? (Great King Se Jong)

What does CD stand for? (Compact disk)

If you had a million dollars and subtracted 500,000 dollars, how much would you have left? ($500,000)

How do you say “thank you” in Japanese? (Arigato)

Who is taller, a giant or a midget? (A giant)

What do you call a person who cannot see?  (Blind)

Trick question: Why do birds fly south? (It’s too far to walk)

Name five musical instruments. (Piano, flute, drum, guitar, cello, violin…)

What letter in the alphabet comes after “p”? (Q)

What letter in the alphabet comes before “p”? (O)

Name three birds (Duck, pigeon, crow, penguin, ostrich, chicken, sparrow, bluebird, robin, canary, parrot…)

Name three reptiles – cold blooded animals (snake, lizard, crocodile, alligator, frog…)

What do you call the joint in the middle of your arm? (Elbow)

What do you call the joint in the middle of your leg? (Knee)

What is the largest planet in our solar system? (Jupiter)

How do you spell Jupiter? (J-u-p-i-t-e-r)

Which planet has colorful rings around it? (Saturn)

When someone cries, what do you call the water that drops from his or her eyes? (tears)

When your head hurts, you call it a “headache.”  When your stomach hurts you call it a “stomachache.”  What do you call it when your throat hurts?  (Sore throat)

What is four times four? (4X4=16)

What is 36 divided by 6? (36/6=6)

What do you call the strings you use to tie your shoe? (Shoe strings)

What do you call the clasp on your belt? (Belt buckle)

How many minutes is half an hour?

How many minutes is a quarter of an hour?

What number is a one followed by six zeros? (1,000,000= one million)

What do you call the little hole that is in the lower part of your stomach? (Navel)

Which is heavier… five kilos of stones or five kilos of feathers? (They weigh the same - five kilos.)

What are two English language names that start with the letter “R”?  (Robert, Rudolf, Randy, Ryan, Rick, Richard, Reginald)

What is the capital city of Thailand? (Bangkok)

What is the capital city of Spain? (Madrid)

What is the capital city of Argentina? (Buenos Aires)

When something is very funny, you ____ - what? (Laugh)

What are two different words for “crazy” in English? (Psycho, nuts, loony, wacko, insane, loco, mentally ill, lunatic…)

Name three flavors of ice cream. (Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, coconut…)

What colors are the American flag? (Red, white and blue)

Who was the first president of the United States? (George Washington)

Does the country of Jordan have a King or a President? (King)

Does Morocco have a King or a President? (King)

Does Pakistan have a King or a President (President)

Does Malaysia have a King or a President?  (They have a king and a Prime Minister – British Commonwealth nations have Prime Ministers including Canada and Australia)

What do you call the top of the world? (North Pole) 

 What are the five Confucian virtues?  li (propriety), chih (wisdom), jen (human-heartedness),  (righteousness), and hsin  (sincerity).

Sometimes translated as: perfect virtue, justice, wisdom, life force, and trust

 What are the seven deadly sins? 

21   Cancer survivor 75 skis to North Pole

By MEGHAN BARR, Associated Press Writer

May 6, 2:15 PM ET

The bone-numbing trek to the North Pole is riddled with enough perils to make a seasoned explorer quake: Frostbite threatens, polar bears loom and the ice is constantly shifting beneath frozen feet.

But Barbara Hillary took it all in stride, completing the trek to the world's northernmost point last month at the age of 75. She is one of the oldest people to reach the North Pole, and is believed to be the first black woman on record to accomplish the feat.

Hillary, of Averne, N.Y., grew up in Harlem and devoted herself to a nursing career and community activism. At 67 and during retirement, she battled lung cancer. Five years later, she went dog sledding in Quebec and photographed polar bears in Manitoba.

Then she heard that a black woman had never made it to the North Pole.

"I said, `What's wrong with this picture?'" she said. "So I sort of rolled into this, shall we say."

In 1909, Matthew Henson made history as the first black man to reach the Pole, though his accomplishment was not officially recognized for decades — it was overshadowed by the presence of his white colleague, Robert Peary.

Ann Bancroft, a physical education teacher from Minnesota, was the North Pole's first female visitor in 1986 as a member of the Steger Polar Expedition, which arrived unassisted in a re-creation of the 1909 trip. Various scientific organizations said no record exists of a black woman matching Bancroft's feat, although such record-keeping is not perfect.

"It's not like there's a guest book when you get up there and you sign it," said Robert Russell, founder of Eagles Cry Adventures, Inc., the travel company that leads thrill-seekers like Hillary to the farthest corners of the globe. Russell conducted six months' worth of research, interviewing fellow polar expedition contractors and digging through history books, but failed to find a black woman who had completed the trek.

Russell's paying customers can travel to the North Pole in various ways, from 18-day cross-country ski trips to simply being dropped off at the Pole via helicopter. The trip costs about $21,000 per person.

Hillary insisted on skiing. Only trouble was, she had never been on the slopes before.

"It wasn't a popular sport in Harlem," she quipped.

So she enrolled in cross-country skiing lessons and hired a personal trainer, who finally determined she was physically fit for the voyage.

"She's a headstrong woman. You don't tell her 'no' about too many things," Russell said.

Her lack of funds didn't stop her, either. Hillary scraped together thousands of dollars and solicited private donors. On April 18, she arrived in Longyearben, Norway, where it is common for people to carry guns to ward off hungry polar bears.

"Before I arrived, the word was out that soul food was coming," she joked.

The travelers were then flown to the base camp — which is rebuilt each year due to melting ice — and pitched their tents. On April 23 Hillary set off on skis with two trained guides.

As the sunlight glinted off the ice, distorting her gaze, Hillary struggled beneath a load of gear and pressed on. In her euphoria at reaching the Pole, she forgot the cold and removed her gloves, causing her fingers to become frostbitten.

Standing at the top of the world, she could have cared less. The enormous expanse of ice and sky left Hillary, for once in her long life, speechless.

DISCUSSION

Name 3 fantastic things you’d like to do.

Do you think you’ll ever do it?

Why or why not?

 22   Corporate Korea Corks the Bottle as Women Rise

By NORIMITSU ONISHI   June 10, 2007  NYT

SEOUL, South Korea — In a time-honored practice in South Korea’s corporate culture, the 38-year-old manager at an online game company took his 10-person team on twice-weekly after-work drinking bouts. He exhorted his subordinates to drink, including a 29-year-old graphic designer who protested that her limit was two glasses of beer.

“Either you drink or you get it from me tomorrow,” the boss told her one evening.

She drank, fearing that refusing to do so would hurt her career. But eventually, unable to take the drinking any longer, she quit and sued.

In May, in the first ruling of its kind, the Seoul High Court said that forcing a subordinate to drink alcohol was illegal, and it pronounced the manager guilty of a “violation of human dignity.” The court awarded the woman $32,000 in damages for the incidents, which occurred in 2004.

Many professional women manage to avoid much of the drinking by adopting well-known strategies. They slip away while their male colleagues indulge in a second or third round of drinking. They pour the drinks into potted plants. They rely on male colleagues, called “knights in shining armor,” to take their turns in drinking games.

Companies, too, have begun to respond. Since 2005, Posco, the steel manufacturer, has limited company outings to two hours at its mill in South Korea’s southwest. Employees can raise a red card if they do not want to drink or a yellow card if they want to go home early. At Woori Bank, one of South Korea’s largest, an alarm rings at 10 p.m. to encourage workers to stop drinking and go home using public transportation, which stops running before midnight.

Still, at least 90 percent of company outings — called “hoishik,” or coming together to eat — still center on alcohol, according to the Korean Alcohol Research Foundation. The percentage of women who drink has increased over all as they have joined companies.

Traditionally, this corporate culture often began at the job interview itself. Asked whether they liked to drink, applicants knew that there was only one correct answer.

At the trial, the boss said he was so intent on having his subordinates bond that he sometimes used his own money to take them out drinking. He called the woman a weirdo and said of the lawsuit, “I’m the victim.”

DISCUSSION

Who is the victim?

Would you hire this woman?  Why or why not?

Do you think she was awarded enough money or too much?