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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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 Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 2:49 am Post subject: The Western Tsunami! |
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| How could you not see it? Most of the Koreans were drinking Corona last night, as well as Guiness, dressed in their Polo shirts, Converse shoes, Roots t-shirts they were dancing to Hip Hop, 50 cents, D.J's with English accents were mingling with the crowds, their conversations were centered on their trips to New Zealand, L.A, Australia, Toronto, talking about the upcoming Star Wars movie, and the Tom Cruise movie that is coming this summer. Woke up today and watched the BACHELOR, watched the top 10 movie countdown, all western movies, went down to Starbucks, couldn't find an empty table, went to Burger King, tables of middle school boys with Boston baseball caps turned backwards filled the place, the girls wore t-shirts of avril Lavign, as students watched some Korean hip hop concert on the t.v. Went to the park and kids were playing soccer, One sported a BECKHEM t-shirt, another Rolaldo.........what is going on? The Western Tsunami has hit, English is the norm, it has taken over and has flooded the hermit kingdom, this new generation has tasted of the west and yet they focus on the Korean wave.................unaware that the Tsunami has flooded everything. |
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agraham
Joined: 19 Aug 2004
Location: Daegu, Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Try to find a shirt with hangeul on it.
I finally got some. They say �����츮��!
Any lingering devotion I had to brandnames has been completely jaded out of me by witnessing consumer culture from a outsiders perspective. |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| agraham wrote: |
Try to find a shirt with hangeul on it.
I finally got some. They say �����츮��!
Any lingering devotion I had to brandnames has been completely jaded out of me by witnessing consumer culture from a outsiders perspective. |
Good point! You know, so many Koreans are so afraid that their Hangeul is going to disappear, yet they are the ones who are killing it! I read this in the Korea Times today about Korea University changing:
Internationalization
The goal of nurturing world leaders is to be met by aggressive programs to teach courses in English and by sending more students abroad for study.
For at least 30 percent of classes taught on campus, the language of instruction is to be English. The university hopes to meet that goal within a few years, with the new faculty members being expected to pick up the slack.
``Except for Law and Korean studies, new incoming faculty should teach in English,'' Euh explained.
The university is also sending more students abroad but, reflecting on the difficulty of establishing and maintaining truly reciprocal exchange programs, the president outlined a new scheme in which ``the stream is one way.''
``We send our students abroad without accepting foreign students in exchange and Korea University picks up the costs,'' he said.
Because there are no students coming in return, Korea University is bearing the entire cost of tuition, to the tune of about 20 percent of its total budget. For the president, this reflects the schools commitment to internationalization. To partially offset that cost, the university has negotiated tuition reduction with its partners, enabling it to send approximately one fifth of its students abroad for at least one semester during their four-year education.
The university has established programs with such prestigious schools as the University of California at Davis and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada, where Korea University has sunk CDN $2.1 million dollars into the development of a residence hall for its students to share with Canadian students.
Sending more students abroad, hiring profs. who must lecture only in English..........................looks like ESL teachers in Korea have job security for the next............50 years (at least).  |
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