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[Real Reality]

Korea's English Programs to Debut in China
Kids' College, a private English immersion school for children, said that it reached an agreement with Beijing Normal University (BNU) in China on Aug. 30 to provide its kindergarten English classes. Under the agreement, the institute will offer its operational manuals and education materials to kindergartens affiliated with BNU for six years...." In the first phase, we plan to set up about 1,000 kindergartens in China," he [Lim Young-ki, founder and CEO of Kid's College] said.... "We have paved the way for children's English education since its inception in 1991 customized to Korean children," he said. The educational programs enable Korean kids to have a good command of English without studying abroad.
By Chung Ah-young, Korea Times (October 12, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200510/kt2005101216493010600.htm

[lastat06513]

I worked for a Korean international school in Weihai, on the northeastern tip of China, for 3 weeks for an intensive summer school program for Korean students (not Joseon-Jjok).
It was hell!!!!
The students were great and the senior teachers were heavenly, but it was the director who ruined the program completely.
He tended to exploit (not overwork) everyone to the very extent of the law.
I heard from my chinese coworkers there that Koreans tend to do that in China.
So, if I were someone who wanted to work for a Korean operation in China, I would strongly reconsider it.

[Real Reality]

"The BNU has sought to strengthen English education for children, which will be gradually applied to elementary, middle and high schools," he [Lim Young-ki] said. He said that many English-speaking countries such as the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada vied for the English programs for the BNU. However, the BNU finally adopted the Korea-made English programs as the English contents to provide the university affiliated kindergartens in China, he said.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200510/kt2005101216493010600.htm

[joe_doufu]

So Koreans are now going to be the world's English teachers? Good grief.

I guess it's because they realized that native speakers like us are obsessed with training useless reading, writing, and speaking skills, while Korean industry has spend decades innovating the TOEFL and TOEIC memorization technology that the world really needs.