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[ghostrider]

It sounds like what my mom used to do to me when she caught me swearing. The story has certainly gone viral in Korea.

"As of noon today, the TV news report is the third-most-viewed news article and the most-viewed video at KBS, so the story is currently popular. KBS also followed up with a news article last night and a new TV news report this morning, so it's certainly running with the story - as are a dozen other news outlets so far. As of last night, the two reports at KBS were the first and seventh-most viewed articles at KBS News' website."
http://populargusts.blogspot.kr/2015/03/elementary-school-native-speaking.html

[jazzmaster]

Seems a strange punishment. It reminds me of getting my mouth washed with soup for swearing. I'd like to be able to read the letter the native teacher wrote explaining her actions.

[Savant]

And yet Korean teachers raping or abusing their students doesn't garner the same outrage.

[Weigookin74]

I had to wash out my mouth with a bar of soapfor swearing as a kid a coupeof time. But I never had to eat it or swollow liquid soap ordetergent. That's pretty dangerous. It's not the Native Teacher's job to discipline anyhow. Why was she doing that? Leave it tothe Korean teacher.

Making a kid eat soap/ Geeze, I hope she's kicked out of Korea.

[chrisinkorea2011]

"I didnt force them"

"It was taste not eat"

Wow with that attitude why cant anyone see that she was just letting them enjoy the taste of it for things to come? Il tell you what, I saw a dog take a big dump on the side of the road, would you like some? You dont gotta eat it, you only gotta taste it.

Seriously what a train wreck of a person. I read on another site that the school was private and did its own hiring and that she was a south african woman.

EDIT: i saw that this story mentions her nationality and all as well.

[Underwaterbob]

[Chaparrastique]

[Stan Rogers]

I see some time behind bars (pardon the pun) and a deportation in the teacher's future.

Albeit a short time because the cultural difference excuse will get tossed around until they send the teacher packing.

[EZE]

It's unreal that someone would do something like that, especially without checking with the principal first.

Korean Sentry says the female foreign English teachers are okay and the male foreign teachers have no place in Korea. So the school needs to keep her on, since there's a risk she could be replaced with a male.

[Stan Rogers]

I also should add that's what you get when you hire people who have never been trained to teach.

[EZE]

[andrewchon]

[chrisinkorea2011]

[quote="Chaparrastique"]

[slothrop]

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[metalhead]

32 and South African means when she was in primary/elementary school during the apartheid days, so she probably had to eat soap for saying the dirty naughty word, guess those old boertjie lessons really stuck with her.