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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 »

