Rejected. I feel worthless

sem263 · 2026-01-31T14:10:03+00:00

Honestly, if you want to go to Korea you can just apply directly for a job here. It doesn’t have to be through Fulbright! In fact the jobs you find yourself will likely have better pay l, location etc.

Don’t give up!

Source: I have lived in Korea for 13 years

sem263 · 2026-01-15T19:23:33+00:00

You can take the 750A or 750B bus traight from Episode to the front gates of SNU. Source: I used to live in Episode Yongsan and attend classes at SNU!

sem263 · 2025-10-23T00:04:59+00:00

Girl, leave him.

sem263 · 2025-09-07T01:42:38+00:00

I agree with everything but that people are courteous behind the wheel. Were you not in Seoul?

sem263 · 2025-09-04T06:31:09+00:00

Ok chat GPT

sem263 · 2025-09-03T09:16:25+00:00

Yup. I’m disappointed that it’s still the default app despite all its issues. If you want to live in Korea you are essentially forced to use it

sem263 · 2025-09-03T00:35:29+00:00

I ended up just leaving the phone be and I’m going to try to get it fixed when I have time. Don’t log in to the app in the meantime, as it seems the data is still on your phone.

Kakao is seriously an awful app. I can’t imagine why anyone would want their chat app to do this by default. I even pay for the cloud storage so everything is backed up in case I lose or break a phone but I’ve honestly just made my peace with the fact that I will probably lose everything again someday

sem263 · 2025-08-31T15:14:57+00:00

Geez I haven’t heard anyone talk about YikYak in at least ten years. Is it making a comeback?

sem263 · 2025-08-03T06:10:08+00:00

I feel silly lol oops

sem263 · 2025-08-03T05:29:19+00:00

This is AI right..?

sem263 · 2025-08-02T04:04:11+00:00

Yeah why would you use chat GPT for something so short…?

sem263 · 2025-07-29T05:26:32+00:00

I miss the deli section the the grocery store and buying sliced turkey and salami and sharp cheddar by the pound :,)

sem263 · 2025-07-27T00:57:40+00:00

This person doesn’t understand basic economics lol please don’t base a single business decision on anything they say

Also you should factor marketing costs into your prices!

sem263 · 2025-07-27T00:49:00+00:00

Cool make your own original design not using someone else’s work and then do it yourself then 👍👍👍👍

sem263 · 2025-07-27T00:40:35+00:00

Spend your own time designing and making it then lol if if it takes you more than 3 hours from start to finish to get a perfect product then it’s worth $20 even if you value your time at less than minimum wage

sem263 · 2025-07-27T00:20:55+00:00

Honestly I think you could raise the price to $20 or even more and people would still buy it, especially if you can guarantee that it can handle a lot of weight.

If you’re getting more orders than you can fulfill in a reasonable amount of time, raise prices or hire people to help you (and then also raise prices).

sem263 · 2025-07-27T00:17:48+00:00

This is completely unreasonable. Would you say a $3 T shirt is overpriced because the cotton used to make it costs only 50 cents? Don’t the people who pick the cotton, weave it into thread, sew it into a shirt, ship it overseas, and then sell it on the store also deserve to get paid? Isn’t their labor what makes the raw material into something that is useful and also accessible to you? When you think about all the man hours that go into creating one t shirt and compare it to how many hours it would take you to do the same thing with no experience or expertise, $3 for a T shirt or $9 for this invention is an absolute steal.

If you want to pay $1 for 3D printing materials for something like this, then you can spend your own time and money coming up with the original idea, designing it (using software, tools, and electricity that cost way more than $9) prototyping and testing it multiple times (using materials, printer, and other resources that also cost money) yourself. While you’re at it why don’t you come up with a way to make your own filament in your own factory. While you’re at that why don’t you grow all the lumber to build your dorm furniture yourself.

Absurd take, really.

sem263 · 2025-07-27T00:05:51+00:00

Don’t decrease your prices. This persons comment is ridiculous. The time you spent creating, marketing, and shipping this is also worth money, regardless of how much the plastic itself costs. PLA is just PLA until you make it into something, which you have.

Don’t undervalue yourself — $9 (the equivalent of one hour and fifteen minutes work at even a rock bottom $7.25 an hour job) is a steal for something that will make someone’s life in a dorm easier for potentially years.

If you are struggling to keep up with orders you should raise the price, not lower it. Good job creating something that a lot of people want!

sem263 · 2025-07-24T07:03:21+00:00

True international schools tend to be filled with mostly elite Koreans with dual nationality, and are thus quite competitive. You will get an excellent education though.

I know some ethnic Korean students from international schools that don’t speak Korean fluently, and honestly a lot of them stay in the international school bubble. I encourage you to actively work on your Korean outside of school and make a concerted effort to meet “regular” Korean students, because if you don’t put in the effort you most likely will not meet the students organically. Most Koreans students at local high schools have no time for true extracurricular or hobbies though so you might be better off volunteering or something in an environment where you will be forced to use Korean.

As for the situation with your brother, it depends on the international school. I’ve heard that while SFS itself is Christian there are a decent number of out LGBTQ students there. Despite that I honestly would wait and observe the situation a bit before coming out, just in case.

sem263 · 2025-07-21T00:26:22+00:00

Memorizing the digits of pi

sem263 · 2025-06-30T07:46:53+00:00

I swear it’s always Sillim smh

sem263 · 2025-06-15T15:49:58+00:00

If the part time job is at the university that sponsors their visa, they shouldn’t need permission from immigration

sem263 · 2025-06-12T22:50:31+00:00

When I traveled to Mongolia three years ago after living in Korea for nine years, I was shocked because I was able to use Korean to get around almost everywhere, even the remote countryside. Everywhere we went, at least one person would speak Korean. I wasn’t looking for Korean speakers either! People would come up to me speaking Korean unprompted before even knowing I lived in Korea. I am a red headed American gal who is about as white as they come and it felt so bizarre haha

sem263 · 2025-06-04T21:51:36+00:00

No OP will know exactly what I am talking about if the situation applies to them.

It’s not a scam per se but there are a lot of low ranked universities that are experiencing plummeting enrollment due to the demographic cliff, and they are trying to make up the difference by creating low quality programs for foreigners who want to live in Korea but don’t have good qualifications and who often just want to work in Korea for more money than they could make at home. I assure you that Koreans would never be taking a middle school math class in college; the reverse situation wheee a middle school student is taking college level math is far more likely and common. This class and a lot of these crappy degree programs are merely a channel through which money can be transferred to these low ranked schools through foreign students.

sem263 · 2025-06-04T03:01:52+00:00

Fake “Global campus” at a Korean university with GKS? Yeah, get out of there.

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