Monthly Archives: January 2008
23,000 new (English) teachers under Lee proposal (in Korea)
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: 23,000 new teachers under Lee proposal January 31, 2008 Lee Myung-bak’s drive to get Koreans to speak better English drew further opposition yesterday as … Continue reading
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[Opinion] Results aren’t everything
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: originally from: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2885723 – January 31, 2008 Sometimes an illusion makes people stray too far from where they should be, both virtually and physically. … Continue reading
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English-immersion plan dropped by Lee’s Presidential team in Korea
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: January 30, 2008 Lee Myung-bak’s transition team has backed off its pledge to have some academic subjects, such as mathematics, science and history, be … Continue reading
Filed under Communications, Education, ESL, Globalization, Interesting..., Jobs, Korea life, Politics, Work
English headache for Lee myung-bak’s transition committee
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: January 30, 2008 President-elect Lee Myung-bak’s transition committee has been creating increasing confusion over its plan to strengthen English education. The committee called off … Continue reading
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[Outlook section in the JoongAng Ilbo] An Indian passage to English
We can solve our English education problems by importing talented Indian human resources. January 29, 2008 The New York Times recently ran a story about Kenneth Tham, a high school student in California. The American boy is being tutored by … Continue reading
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Opinion in the JoonAng Ilbo: Control your words
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: It is an excessive show of its will and an abuse of power for the transition team to directly announce sensitive policy issues in … Continue reading
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Teachers in Korea are not convinced
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: January 28, 2008 Education circles are worrying about the new government’s policies. In particular, teachers, who stand at the forefront of overhauling major educational … Continue reading
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Korean Presidential Transition team firm on English changes in South Korea
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: January 26, 2008 In response to widespread skepticism over the recent announcement that fluent English speakers will teach high school English classes by 2010, … Continue reading
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More English classes in Korea sought
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: January 25, 2008 English classes in high schools should be taught completely in English in 2010, a member of President-elect Lee Myung-bak’s transition team … Continue reading
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Hangul may help others record history
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: January 19, 2008 Lee Hyun-bok, 72, believes that Hangul, or the Korean alphabet, can be learned in a day. An honorary professor of phonetics … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Korea life, Learning Korean
Seoul National University staff getting rated on English and manners
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: SNU staff getting rated on English and manners January 23, 2008 Staff members are attending cram schools to work on their English and sweating … Continue reading
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Cram school (Hagwons) delight (in Korea)
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: January 24, 2008 Korea’s already-thriving private English education market is showing further signs of a boom. The market-wide buzz came after the power transition … Continue reading
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Teacher may be fired for naked punishment
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: January 31, 2008 “May” be fired? If this teacher isn’t fired, I think I’m going to have to do more than just post the … Continue reading
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The haters are out in force these days…
Add this blog to your favorites: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: As posted earlier about getting yelled on the KTX train about speaking in English too loudly and I’m not sure if I failed to … Continue reading
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VOIP seems to be a hit…
I keep a few blogs to see how they will do with adwords advertising. Most of them are pretty sad as far as creating any click throughs, but this website I created called http://almostfreephone.com seems to be very popular and … Continue reading
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