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English Teaching

History of scapegoating English teachers

by Philip Gowman on 17 November, 2007

in English Teaching

English language teachers are never out of the press for long. Most recently there’s the Canadian paedophile who was teaching in Korea, and then a fairly familiar story about teachers being busted for smoking cannabis. The thing that struck me most about the cannabis story is the price. I knew that English teaching in Korea [...]

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Brits need not apply

14 August 2007 English Teaching

Or Aussies or Kiwis for that matter.
A full-page ad in the current issue of Seoul Magazine seeks to satisfy Korea’s seemingly insatiable appetite for English language teachers. The ad starts:
Thousands of College Graduates are going to South Korea to teach English to pay off their student loans and to gain international experience.
The only qualifications a [...]

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Fakes and curruption in art and academia

22 July 2007 ...blow by blow
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There has been a number of stories of fakes recently. Here’s a brief round-up of links
1 Shin Jeong-ah.

Dongguk University Fires Bogus Professor, Korea Times, 20 July
Stroke of luck, raw talent fueled Shin’s ascent, JoongAng Daily, 14 July. Some selected extracts:

Shin Jeong-ah was 23 when the 1995 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul buried [...]

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Teaching English in Korea

11 June 2006 English Teaching

I’m going to tread, very gingerly, into the minefield of discussing matters relating to English language teaching in Korea. A dangerous topic for an outsider to get involved in, firstly because the majority of English-language bloggers on Korea seem to be ESL teachers, and secondly because there are some hot issues. I’m not sure that [...]

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