From the category archives:

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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