http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/W07/feature1.cfm21 year old illegal immigrant working as a welder ends up giving the commencement speech for his Harvard Med School class and is now the director of the brain tumor program at Hopkins Bayview. This guy is 100x the academic you are and didn't need to run away to Korea to cut his losses. He's too modest to even think of "referring" to himself as an academic, though. Could that guy have managed that in Britain, Scandinavia or Korea? I seriously doubt that.
You're not even an academic. You're an English teaching douche bag who failed to become a contributing member of society. Nothing more and nothing less.
You blame everyone but yourself. It's sad but true. Everyone's at fault, including the entire country in your opinion, but you're completely innocent and amazing because you can save $20k a year in Korea!
By your logic, every teacher in this country and anyone speaking a few languages is an academic.
You know the only other douche bag I've heard refer to himself as an academic when trying to brag about himself? The True Adonis. Congrats on keeping company with him. Truly an honor.

And seeing as you claim to know things about science and what not, care to detail every step of the Krebs cycle for me? Or maybe glycogen degradation or gluconeogenesis. What role does the debranching enzyme serve in glycogen degradation? Does it cleave the 1,4- or 1,6- bonds?
Academic is another word for "Liberal Arts degree."

Anyway, it's the fourth and my food is settled. I've got more Landsharks to kill. Happy fourth, hahahaha!