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The Kung Fu Hustle · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Location: Incheon

...and she can't speak English! the last teacher was a kyopo who had lived in America since he was two. He could speak Korean well but couldn't read or write. So our boss was really getting a native speaker for the price of a Korean teacher, and the kids could learn a lot from him too...

Only because they were both Korean (and both male) he only lasted a month before they started to have furious fights. SO now we have a new K teacher and she can't speak English!!?? Does this happen a lot? She wrote "Complote stences" as a summary of what she did in class yesterday.

inkoreaforgood · Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Location: Inchon

Sounds like you're boss is a cheap dumbass!!

guangho

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

Indeed, the owner of our hagwon herself doesn't speak English. Nor does the Korean guy who serves as our Japanese teacher. Imagine my shock and surprise the night we all went out to dinner and the bus driver started chatting me up in English (great pronunciation if limited vocabulary)!

I can understand starting an English school business if you don't speak English... it would be a great way to learn it yourself... but I can't believe they don't exercise the opportunity and sit in on the adult classes! I can't imagine starting and English business with no desire to learn English oneself.

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

why do you assume that they care about English? They needed a reasonable investment for their money and an English school is a low investment. It's about money

sadsac · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Gwangwang

Common as mud. To teach English, doesn't mean that you have to be competent in the use of the language. We have a female teacher at my current hagwon, who thinks she is a princess. Spoken English very good, grammar disgusting. She teaches grammar, such is life. Smile

babtangee · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:28 am Post subject:

My wife spent four years in Australia studying English. She speaks with veritable fluency. Her grammer knowledge far outweighs mine and she can articulate it in English (don't as me to do this Embarassed

).

Her/my boss asked her to quit, and she said she would be happy to but demanded a month's notice rather than the week he offered. He was a bit taken back by her lack of sorrow/remorse and her demand for a full month's wages. As revenge he gave her middle school grammar class tot he kindergarden teacher.

Now the middleschool kids are singing "incy, wincy spider" and "the wheels on the bus" twice a week... it's friggin' great!