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[CoolTeach]

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200610/kt2006102514580311990.htm

Check out these parts:

Breaking New Ground
I feel for this family. They have experienced what it is really like to be a foreign kid in Korea. The daughter wishes to fit in. It sucks that kids have to go through this. Oh wait she's Canadian, they have to fight the maple syrup myth too, OMG.

Picking and Choosing

A Chinese/Korean that looks Asian, surprising. I think mommy made a bunch of stuff up about the baby. Her eyes don't look round or folded to me and her hair is black. The opposite of the above article, the mommy wants her daughter to look foreign. Oh wait, she was adopted by a British couple at the age of 13, that explains everything.

Blending in

I respect this part. The mother's drive to blend in with Korean Society by learning the language. Yet, making sure her children know her heritage as well. Great balance. They seem to be happy being themselves.


Interesting stuff.

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[Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida]

Off topic but wow! Your THE TWO RONNIES avatar! I miss watching them on TV. It must have been 26 years since they were on CBC.

[Hanson]

[stumptown]

[Mashimaro]

Is there any point in sending your kids to a Korean school? I thought korean education was basically rote memorisation of facts and figures that you are free to forget once you finish the test... They don't seem to foster any creativity at all Along with the lack of safety and the racism, makes me think that I would never send my kids to a Korean School.

[Qinella]

Hey I recognized that ubercute face instantly! What a doll, little Letty!


Edit: What's with the spelling 'oeguk'? Are they spelling 김 as Gim now, too, then?

[Len8]

I posted stuff like that on a Korean site, and many Koreans(Kyopos) couldn't believe it. Refused to believe it in fact.

[Woland]

Letty is way cool, very friendly, and one of the brightest kids of her age I've come across. She's just a delight.

Along the lines of the article, when I was teaching English in a uni ten years ago, the Russian professor there and his wife asked me to tutor their daughter in English to get her up to speed for when they returned to Russia. I did it for a year because they were good friends and the girl was another very sharp, good kid. She was going to regular Korean elementary school and was fluent in Korean on top of her Russian. But she would say to me and her parents how lonely she was in school because no one wanted to be her friend because she looked different. It was heartbreaking. I would hope that things have improved since then, though it seems it hasn't completely. Too bad.

[Qinella]

[hubba bubba]

I believe racism is taught by parents.

It doesn't surprise me that Korean kids think being a waygook is bad. I would never raise a kid in Korea.

[crazylemongirl]

[JeJuJitsu]

what the hell is oeguk? waygook?

fine, i will now spell waygook, as weikug.

[Junior]