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HK: Respect for colleagues key to happiness at work

By Elmer W. Cagape Sat, Sep 10, 2011 3:18AM UTC View Comments

Albert Einstein once said “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” Three out of four workers in Hong Kong interviewed recently tend to agree with Mr Einstein’s statement. The same treatment should also apply at work where respect towards colleagues, whether top...

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Thai Poll: 57% have little or no confidence in the constitution court

By Bangkok Pundit Wed, Aug 24, 2011 9:00AM UTC Comments Off

Suan Dusit conducted a poll between Aug 13-17 surveying 1,174 people in Bangkok and its neighboring provinces on the subject of “Constitution Court in the eyes of the people”. Details of the response group are available from Matichon.* Q. When people were asked whether they had confidence in the Constitution Court, the answers were -37.62% –...

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SKorea: 80% of university students want to transfer

By Nathan Schwartzman Tue, Aug 09, 2011 11:17AM UTC View Comments

The jobs website, Saramin, surveyed 863 university students to find that 76.2% “regret” choosing to attend their current schools. Of those, 36% said it wasn’t their first choice of school anyway, 35.9% said the school isn’t a good one for getting a job, 33.5% said the school isn’t providing a good education, and 27.7% said that the...

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SKorea: Student understanding of multiculturalism lacking

By Nathan Schwartzman Thu, Aug 04, 2011 7:58AM UTC View Comments

Original article in Korean is at this link. 7 out of 10 teenagers in our country have never received any education related to multiculturalism, a study has found. Jeong Hye-won, a social studies major in the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies’ graduate education program, has written a just-published dissertation titled “Analysis of Teenagers’ Understanding of...

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SKorea: Rising share of kids with foreign parents

By Nathan Schwartzman Sat, Jul 30, 2011 2:14AM UTC View Comments

This article is a little confusing in that the statistics seem to lump together foreign citizens who happen to be kids with actual Korean citizens who happen to have a foreign parent. Either way, you can see that they are making up a larger share of the child population every year. A study has found...

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