Survive & Thrive in Korea
Konglish 101 An experience in class after teaching for a few days… Class: Teacher! John cunning! Me: I guess. He does seem pretty slick that, John. Class: No, teacher! Cunning! Me: Okay, but he’s not master spy or anything. Then I got blank looks and more screams of Cunning! So that was introduction to the […]
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With all the lists out there detailing all the things you should bring to Korea I thought it would be a good idea to mention the things you should leave behind: assumptions and misconceptions ranking as the top two. So with that in mind I thought it would be fun to do a good old […]
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Phoenixstorm’s Things I Should’ve Brought to Korea, but Didn’t If you have scoured the net for that perfect esl job in Korea, signed a contract, and have taken the steps to get your E-2 Visa, then you need to starting thinking about the next step in this whole teaching in Korea business: What to bring […]
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Today the Korea Association of Hakwon and the Korea Association of Foreign Language Academies held their annual Seminar. At our school we didn’t find out about it until Thursday which put a snag into everybody’s weekend plans. Our boss also informed us that attendance was mandatory so there was no escape to be had. Which […]
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Well, the other shoe has finally dropped after the big fallout of the sex offender scandal. If you haven’t heard it turns out that early this month Interpol arrested Canadian Christopher Paul Neal on sex abuse charges. Mr. Neal had been abusing kids in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. His base of operations to conduct these […]
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I can’t believe six months have come and gone since I’ve been in Korea. I have to say that at the half way mark I’m finding that I’m enjoying the experience more than I thought I would.I’ve been lucky that the kids in my classes have been great for the most part. There are a […]
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