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bassexpander
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 Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: 100 Indians to be recruited for public school jobs |
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This was supposed to have happened in the past few semesters, but it still has not actually taken off. So far, the idea hasn't panned-out quite as education officials had expected, for a variety of reasons.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2912403
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Starting in the fall semester next year, around 100 teachers from India will be teaching English at elementary, middle and high schools nationwide, a high-ranking official with the Education Ministry said yesterday.....
...The ministry will recruit around 100 Indians early next year and if the trial is successful, it could raise the number to 300..... |
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hockeyguy109
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| What's the reason? That sounds very strange. Cheaper English? |
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Ramen
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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I guess Korean parents decided that their children won't be seeking 7-11 store or taxi driver jobs.  |
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bassexpander
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly, hockeyguy.
But here is an example of the kind of disinterest they face from Korean parents:
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd16/bassexpander/pickup.jpg
This is a photo taken inside of a taxi. The ad is for a phone English school, and the comment on it is that they do not employ English speakers from other Asian countries. |
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hockeyguy109
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That really blows my mind. I mean, great for Indians. Every Indian person I've met was awesome, but it just seems that Koreans have a certain *distaste* for teachers from that country. I mean hell, they complain a lot about how they want teachers from the USA and not Europe, because the USA is "the ideal". I'm from the USA and people have praised me for my dialect....which I think is strange.
So how the heck are Indians going to make it as English teachers in Korea? My money says this plan will soon be scratched. |
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VanIslander
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Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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 Imagine one going to that school where a poster complained the cafeteria nazi didn't want outside food in her lunch room.
"So sorry ma'am, but I bring curry and naan every day. Must have. Cherio!" |
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DaffyD73
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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I can't resist......
Cowboys n Indians  |
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TheUrbanMyth
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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The comment from the ministry official makes me smile.
He states that a large number of Indian teachers are teaching math and English in Britain and the U.S and that Korea can expect much from those teachers.
I really doubt they are going to give up teaching jobs in the Western world to come here for lower pay and more overt discrimination.
Also it says they will be placed in locations where there is a shortage of native English speakers...read "rural locations". Again I can't see too many Westernized Indians being happy with this either. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
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Most will be well-educated middle class Hindi I suspect. The call centre wannabe crowd.
Imagine a Sikh in terms of Korean classroom management: tall, bearded, knife-packing, turban-topped. Korean staff would be having fits!
I enjoy talking with East Indians. My hometown in Canada has over a thousand of them, the second biggest visible ethnicity next to Italians.
Looking forward to it. Makes life here more interesting... |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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You betcha. Increasingly, ESL teachers will be drawn from countries where people don't "complain" so much about contracts and conditions. |
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b-class rambler
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
I really doubt they are going to give up teaching jobs in the Western world to come here for lower pay and more overt discrimination.
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Undoubtedly true in some cases, but nevertheless people from all of the currently recognised "native speaker" countries have done just that.
I'd agree that some Koreans' attitudes towards Indians are regrettably ignorant. But before anyone gets on too high a horse about this, it's worth remembering the frequent negative and ignorant reactions in many of the countries we come from when people have found an English-speaking service was now performed by an Indian. This is exactly what's happened with many call centre and telephone info service jobs, certainly in the UK and the US, and I'd guess elsewhere too. |
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TheUrbanMyth
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| b-class rambler wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
I really doubt they are going to give up teaching jobs in the Western world to come here for lower pay and more overt discrimination.
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Undoubtedly true in some cases, but nevertheless people from all of the currently recognised "native speaker" countries have done just that.
Very few...and of those people how many other factors were at play...like not being able to get tenure or being able to control a class? I mean, if you are enjoying your job and it's reasonably secure, who's going to give that up to move half-way around the world for less security and more discrimination?
Plus for Indians teaching in Western countries, this is going to seem a step backwards career-wise. I really doubt that this is going to seem as exotic to them as it does/did to many Westerners.
I'd agree that some Koreans' attitudes towards Indians are regrettably ignorant. But before anyone gets on too high a horse about this, it's worth remembering the frequent negative and ignorant reactions in many of the countries we come from when people have found an English-speaking service was now performed by an Indian. This is exactly what's happened with many call centre and telephone info service jobs, certainly in the UK and the US, and I'd guess elsewhere too. |
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halfmanhalfbiscuit
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| They couldn't attract enough Filipinos? Is this their back-up plan? |
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nobbyken
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| DaffyD73 wrote: |
I can't resist......
Cowboys n Indians |
I guess they've tried cowboys for years. |
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VanIslander
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Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| nobbyken wrote: |
| DaffyD73 wrote: |
I can't resist......
Cowboys n Indians |
I guess they've tried cowboys for years. |
uh, nobb, i think you don't get it |
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