False friends – pension
16/04/2011 1 Comment
It seems like cruel irony that having returned to the UK, where for reasons of a real plan to return to Uni for my MSc in September, I’ve found myself working in the very company I fled to go to Korea. I have a slightly worse job and earn considerably less. The department I’m now working in is pensions.
Irony upon irony, in Korea this is a pension, the word borrowed from the French for a nice little rentable house in the mountains or at a beach. From cheep and cheerful, to expensive and luxurious.
This is an image the word ‘pension’ in England might conjure up.
A sad old man.
(that man is me inside)
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stumbled upon your blog whilst looking for stuff to do in Bristol when i return in September.
Been here for 7 weeks now to do a Korean language course.. few more to go then it’s back to good ol Blighty to work(and play).. are you back in Bristol? (having experienced the crazy consistently heavy rain here the past few weeks, well i do miss Bristol’s drizzle :) hehe