UPDATE: a piece was written by the Korea Times about this right right here.

We have resided in Korea for pretty much 15 years. We have a family that is korean. We own a small business advertising Korean culture. We also voted within the last few election that is korean.

We additionally instruct English only a little in my own leisure time. This is why, I happened to be needed by the Gyeonggi Provincial federal federal federal government through the hagwon association to head to a “teacher training” seminar wa-a-a-a-ay call at Icheon.

Icheon.

I prefer Icheon. Pottery. Rice. Makgeolli. Seo-il Farm. It’s also WAY in the edge that is eastern of. Far from where in fact the greater part of foreign English instructors reside.

The reported reason for this seminar is always to train foreign ESL instructors to be “better instructors.” The genuine explanation is more sinister and clouded with xenophobia.

We’ve had waves of xenophobia since I’ve been here. The top one was Anti-English-Spectrum (2005), that has been a vigilante set of males who didn’t like Korean females dating international guys. They got the ears associated with the media and politicians, rebranded themselves become a company which will make schools better, and orchestrated most of the immigration that is questionable South Korea. This can include the HIV/AIDS zidovske seznamovacГ­ weby test for E-2 visas, that the U.N. Human Rights people said violated international treaties. That took around a decade to get rid of finally. They fueled this perception of foreigners to be drug that is sexually deviant. The group isn’t any longer active, however their stench nevertheless exists when you look at the general public mind-set. ادامه مطلب …