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Mashimaro · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location

from
http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=430

The reasons Native Speakers are not hired at Jong I Jo Language Institute

1. Most are only short-term visitors and, therefore, lack a sense of responsibility and duty.

2. They have no concept of teaching and, therefore, have absolutely no sense of duty or professionalism.

3. They are untrained in education.

4. They are absolutely not high-quality personnel (most graduate from no-name technical schools and 2-year colleges.

5. It is impossible to check what kinds of people they are or what their characters are (ex. drug user, homosexual, convict, AIDS patient, sex offender).

6. They only just barely teach their classes and do not invest any time in managing students.

7. They have no burning passion for the students.

8. They do not agonize at all over improving the student�s skills.

9. Legitimate native speakers are rare.

10. It is impossible for parents to easily consult with them anytime they want.

* I want to specify that the above applies to only some foreigners.

wire · Joined: 01 Aug 2006

But we have pronunciation on lockdown.

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Foreigners Fight Bias
No Foreigners Allowed: Nationality Discrimination Legal in Korea
By Christopher Carpenter and Jane Han contributed to this story.
Korea Times (December 12, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/special/200612/kt2006121219555767650.htm

Foreigners Experience Difficulties in Living in Korea
by Jae-Dong Yu and Soo-Jung Shin, Donga.com (July 4, 2004)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2004070522448

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Funny, but with the exception of number 10, all of those could have applied to the K-teachers I worked with at kiddie hogwons.

Short-term visitors? At the kiddie hogwons I worked at, my Korean co-workers pretty much all had shorter shelf-lives than I did. I stuck out my year, they should have installed a revolving door for the K-teachers.

Virtually none of them had any formal training in English, or seemed to view English teaching as a permanent career.

And is Wonderland now doing background checks on their K-teachers? Didn't think so.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

For their own sake - because stupidity like that cannot be pleasant - the authors of that should be put down quickly and painlessly like suffering animals.

stumptown · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

No "burning passion" ? WTF Shocked

jennateacher · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

I should hope we do not have a burning passion for our students, especialy the underage students.

mnhnhyouh · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Location: The Middle Kingdom

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

This thread had already been done before (If memory serves, I was one ofthe first to translate that).

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

I don't see the problem with most of those. Fairly accurate, IMO.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

That list is so funny. Yes, with the exception of #10, they all apply to KTs as well. I especially like:

Mashimaro · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location

yesnoyesyesno · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

here's the list of teachers they have:

http://www.cyjenglish.com/tlist.jsp

this school is no joke, almost all of their teachers have masters degrees from western universities. all this is also a business niche these guys are trying to get into as well, shouldn't forget that

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf