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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: English villagwons - the newest arrival in TEFL? |
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No, it's not a hagwon, really. Yes, the parents of kindy, elementary, and MS students pay a lot of money to send their kids there every day, but it's not a hawgon. It's an English village that happens to charge monthly tuition. Look - it has activity rooms, and happy waygooks dressed up in this or that. And it's affiliated with some public agency in some tangental way. So it's not really a hagwon, you see? Please don't call it a hagwon.
Are hagwons posing as 'English Villages' the lastest arrival on the TEFL scene here? It would appear so. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know very much about these English Village things; do the children and teachers stay there overnight? Like an English camp, but it's on a 'village'? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| I don't know very much about these English Village things; do the children and teachers stay there overnight? Like an English camp, but it's on a 'village'? |
At some, yes; others are just day-camps. Some are entirely public, but increasingly it looks like private investors are setting them up for profit. |
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spyro25
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| i can't speak for any others but the one that was open in busan a few months ago (queendom) looked fantastic but was AWFUL in terms of learning. half of the waygooks were russian and the other half were under 16's from australia who had joined a modelling agency in oz and got sent over to try this village. they were just plain embarrassing to watch. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| spyro25 wrote: |
| i can't speak for any others but the one that was open in busan a few months ago (queendom) looked fantastic but was AWFUL in terms of learning. half of the waygooks were russian and the other half were under 16's from australia who had joined a modelling agency in oz and got sent over to try this village. they were just plain embarrassing to watch. |
Was that a private or a public enterprise? Either way that's pretty unbelievable. |
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spyro25
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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it was private. it was actually all set in a show home for new apartments outside of busan.
(the chicks were hot though. if only they were legal!) |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| spyro25 wrote: |
it was private. it was actually all set in a show home for new apartments outside of busan.
(the chicks were hot though. if only they were legal!) |
So now sexy English edutainment is a sales technique to sell new apartments? Sort of like how 13-year-old Russian models are a way to sell women's underwear? Oh well, it's not like I don't find that surprising. |
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TheBrain
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Acme Lab
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| Where can I find these Russian women and why are they in such a hurry? |
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