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Gdsgirl · Joined: 05 May 2009 Location: California

Okay! I've heard a lot of different issues on the matter. For those with experience was it hard to get placed? I know many recruiters ask for a photo, I wonder if this is to weed out certain people. Also, which companies work well with this?

THANKS!!!

alphakennyone · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Location: city heights

I think a lot of the bigger chains are more open minded. There were a lot of minority teachers when I worked at YES Youngdo (not that I necessarily endorse them).

longlocks · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: Busan, South Korea

I heard the same thing and that actually deterred me from applying a few years ago. I applied with EPIK this year through a recruiter, and I now have a contract for Busan. I write about my experiences in applying in my blog. See the blog by clicking the www button. There is also a facebook group for minorities in Korea. The group is called Brothas and Sistas in South Korea.

Ukon · Joined: 29 Jan 2008

You'll get harassed by desperate recruiters either way....unless your Indian or Kyopo....

You'll get less job responses then a hot white blonde girl however...I say hit the Public schools....but I know minorities like myself working at all types of hagwons in Seoul...

cruisemonkey · Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject:

In K-land, if you're not 'Han' you're a minority.

The Ks hate (almost) everone equally - there's special place in their hearts reserved for the Japanese.

The colour of one's skin has no bearing... except in their minds 'the darker, the dirtier'. Rolling Eyes

Bloopity Bloop · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Location: Seoul yo

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 2:54 am Post subject:

i_teach_esl · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Location: baebang, asan/cheonan

fb group for black folks in korea

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=25747883752&ref=ts

Rory_Calhoun27 · Joined: 14 Feb 2009

I'm curious- what is the concesus of "Black English Vernacular" for the ESL teachers of African descent? I imagine many South African teachers are as perplexed by the "language" as the indigeneous White Devils of the USA are... Twisted Evil

alphakennyone · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Location: city heights

^

That's too nonsensical to be offensive...if that's even what you were going for.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 9:18 am Post subject:

Imagine a black guy standing in front of 72 K kids and utterering these words "I's gonna learn ya ta speak English good."

The Ks had no idea...

alphakennyone · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Location: city heights

Would they understand it if a white teacher spoke those words?

D.D. · Joined: 29 May 2008

Chagwon office of education appears to have equal opportunity hiring as there are lots of minorities working in public schools in Gyeongsang namdo province. I guess you could try there for cities like Chagwon, Gimhae, Jinju, Masan.

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 3:35 am Post subject:

alphakennyone · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Location: city heights

A white person might indeed say something similar. I'd say "ebonics" (in its true form) is fairly loosely tied to race and more closely tied to the rural poor and a lack of education, despite what some white south africans (i still have no idea what that was that all about?) might think.

Two examples I've overheard in Seoul spoken by white servicemen (there ya go, rural poor):

"I ain't been over there." (using ain't in place of don't/haven't/etc instead of just "am not" is considered ebonics)

"I'm fixin ta set down" (this isn't really ebonics, but it's still uneducated-speak).

Sorry, I find poking at ebonics to be racist. In Japan one of my students said the newscaster remarked how Obama "spoke like a white man." I corrected him and said he spoke like an educated person. As far as I'm concerned, the only guy who sounds strangely "white" is Tony Gwynn.

Hell, and I'm not even a minority!