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| Why is English so pervaded in South Korea? |
| It is stylish. |
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6% |
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| It is due to the globalization of the English language. |
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24% |
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| Stems from Confucianism and the need for continual education. |
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3% |
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| English symbolizes "sophistication" thus everyone uses it. |
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30% |
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| Because of the large amount of business that is done with the foreign countries whose official language is English. |
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30% |
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| Other (Please explain in detail). |
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6% |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: Why is English so pervasive in South Korea? |
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What are the reasons for this besides the obvious being that English is the lingua franca of the world? Your thoughts?
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Do you mean 'pervasive'?
Perhaps it's because most of the English teachers here create such a need for remedial instruction? |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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Or maybe he means perverted. 
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Do you mean 'pervasive'?
Perhaps it's because most of the English teachers here create such a need for remedial instruction? |
ah. thanks. I have too many things going on at once. I am hoping to draw some interesting and intelligent responses. Please pardon the mistake. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Because English is extremely important and Koreans' ability in English generally is abysmal. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Because English is extremely important... |
Why? |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Because English is extremely important... |
Why? |
Wikipedia is your friend |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Because English is extremely important... |
Why? |
Wikipedia is your friend |
TY CLG, I appreciate it. However, I was hoping to get a solid response from him/her, specifically, a response reinforcing his/her statement. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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English is not pervasive here.
I'd guess 2-3% of Koreans can speak English. I'd guess 10% can speak at a high-beginner level. And that's it. I wouldn't call 10-15% pervasive. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| JeJuJitsu wrote: |
English is not pervasive here.
I'd guess 2-3% of Koreans can speak English. I'd guess 10% can speak at a high-beginner level. And that's it. I wouldn't call 10-15% pervasive. |
It is not? Then how would you explain the uncountable amount of advertisements, road signs, books, commercials, songs, etc. that have some form of English in it? |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| It is not? Then how would you explain the uncountable amount of advertisements, road signs, books, commercials, songs, etc. that have some form of English in it? |
English is a high-prestige language not unlike French was in times gone by or Latin before that. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| It could also help a country's image by making it appear more international than it really is. There are lots of signs, ads, songs etc.. that have English in them in many countries where not many peoiple speak much English. Don't forget TV shows and movies. They have to watch a slightly different program or movie than an English speaker though, through reading subtitles that cannot capture all that goes on in the English language and culture. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| You seem to be using the good people here at Daves to some kind of survey. Anyway, the question and the options are simplistic and naive. I'm not helping... |
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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:30 am Post subject: |
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They want to get a high score on TOIEC. Seems to be the gauge for promotions in a lot of companies.
People here gotta learn it, regardless of wether they like it or not.
Usual thing of Koreans jumping in feet first without planning to get something that is important.That way of doing things seems to always work out for Korea. Same reason they hire any English speaker who has graduated to work in their public school system. They don't seem to realise that that approach will bring a lot of duds. Then again maybe they do know and are only playing a numbers game. Lose many, but keep some who really make the adjustment and want to stay on. That could be worth it to the education department. Money in their eyes is probably money well spent if they retain less than half of the teachers they invested in. |
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