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kurisu
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 Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject: Number of English teachers in Korea |
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| Anyone have any reliable estimates on how many English teachers there are in Korea? I've heard around 5,000, but that seems awfully low.... |
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Bozo Yoroshiku
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: Number of English teachers in Korea |
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| kurisu wrote: |
| Anyone have any reliable estimates on how many English teachers there are in Korea? I've heard around 5,000, but that seems awfully low.... |
Last quote I saw in print recently was somewhere between 6000-6100, and decreasing. Overall, it's down from about 13,000 a few years ago.
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Manner of Speaking
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"According to the South Korean Ministry of Education and Human
Resources, there are currently 5,138 foreign language institutes and 6,410
foreign teachers in Korea."
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/news/article/353.html |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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but rememeber people.. this does nt include the MANY tourist backpaper teachers! im sure there are about 500 of those.. |
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PolyChronic Time Girl
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| Are they only looking at the 6,000 plus teachers that have registered/have E-2 visas? Because there has got to be hundreds, maybe even thousands others that are not only backpackers, but have managed to be here many years and hide from the radar. |
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hogwonguy1979
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| you also have to include the people teaching at the K-12 level in the schools and the univ teachers here. I bet that nearly doubles the number |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:03 am Post subject: Re: Number of English teachers in Korea |
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| kurisu wrote: |
| Anyone have any reliable estimates on how many English teachers there are in Korea? I've heard around 5,000, but that seems awfully low.... |
The numbers are all over the place. MOS's article says 6400+.
Jajdude read in Joongang last year that the number was 10,600.
EFL-Law's website figures between 7000-8000.
This Korean govt statistics site says that there were 22,000+ E2 visas issued in 2003. And if you use the chart to reflect past years, you'll see a significant trend of growth in the number of E2 issuances, every year since 2000. Bear in mind, the E2 total will also reflect native Chinese, Japanese, and any other foreign language teacher. But whatever that true E2-english remainder is, will exclude the university english teachers who are on E1s, the F2 english teachers who are married to Korean spouses, all the gyopo teachers on F4s, and the teachers who are among the 2 million+ tourists that enter the country ever year.
Given the hodge-podge collection of quotes and how unverifiable the true total is, I'm pretty sure that the govt does not have a hard figure.
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Manner of Speaking
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| The EFL-Law Forum moderator has commented several times that there seems to have been a sharp drop from around 11,000 a few years ago to around 6500 nowadays. As far as I know he's only measuring E-2 holders as well. As chronic notes, if you only count the E-2 holders that doesn't take in all of the foreigners working as teachers...but I suppose it's the only reliable benchmark around, if you're tracking numbers over time. |
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