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English Teacher on the Run Caught

» by GI Korea October 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm » Comments (15)

Via the Marmot's Hole come news that the English teacher accused of raping young boys in Cambodia and Thailand has been caught in Thailand.  Now I guess the fight will ...more »

Sensationalizing Foreign Crime in Korea

» by GI Korea October 19th, 2007 at 6:42 am » Comments (16)

Courtesy of the Marmot's Hole, the Chosun Ilbo has yet another article on the supposed "rise of foreigner crime" in Korea: Recently, foreigner crimes have been sharply ...more »

English Teacher Pedophile on the Run

» by GI Korea October 17th, 2007 at 7:08 am » Comments (20)

This news definitely is going to help the image of foreign English teachers in Korea (HT: Greg): Thai police today said a man being hunted around the ...more »

Lee Myung-bak A Threat to Hagwons?

» by GI Korea October 10th, 2007 at 6:53 am » Comments (7)

Favored South Korean Presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak has a plan to improve English language proficiency and it appears the plan may not be a good thing for English hagwon owners: ...more »

The “Jewish White Bastards” of Yong Yu Island

» by GI Korea October 1st, 2007 at 6:04 am » Comments (17)

UPDATE: The Marmot has even more about these banners. __________________________________________ These photos on EFL Geek just goes to show how bad xenophobia in Korea can be: Apparently these racist banners have to do ...more »

Exposing the Myth of Foreigner Crime in Korea

» by GI Korea September 24th, 2007 at 9:36 pm » Comments (41)

The above title is not something you will see headlining a Korean newspaper anytime soon, however when you compile the statistics it is true: Five types of serious crimes _ murder, ...more »

Responding to Foreign English Teacher Expose

» by GI Korea September 6th, 2007 at 9:25 pm » Comments (7)

The KBS2 expose' of "dope smoking, low quality, foreign English teachers" lived up to the usual standards of Korean journalism. Truth be told I have known very few English teachers ...more »

Anti-Foreigner Show Tonight on KBS2

» by GI Korea September 5th, 2007 at 6:40 am » Comments (7)

UPDATE: As suspected the KBS2 special will have an angle about how the "low quality foreign English teachers" are taking advantage of poor innocent Korean women.  Of course the Marmot ...more »

Unqualified English Teacher Sent to Prison

» by GI Korea July 17th, 2007 at 6:50 am » Comments (5)

If the authorities send the low quality foreign English Teachers to prison shouldn't they also send the people that are employing them to jail as well? more »

Latest English Teacher Scandal

» by GI Korea July 3rd, 2007 at 6:40 pm » Comments (3)

I fail to see the news value in this the latest English teacher scandal that it should make headlines in the Chosun Ilbo, but heck at least it doesn't involve ...more »

Evacuating Korea

» by GI Korea March 28th, 2007 at 6:30 am » Comments (6)

I recently had a request by e-mail to post about what an American expat living in Korea should do in case war was to break out on the peninsula. ...more »

Korea Primer

» by GI Korea February 6th, 2007 at 6:19 pm » Comments (0)

Here is great Korea 101 video put together by students of a Korean English language academy.  If you have never been to Korea before this video is worth checking out.  ...more »
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