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South Korea: English Teacher Union

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 @ 13:21 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: South Korea
Topics:: Diaspora, Education, Labor

Robert Koehler from Marmot hole blogs about the setting up of foreign English teacher union in South Korea.

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“South Korea: English Teacher Union”

March 31st, 2008 at 5:37 am
larry:
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Many American ESL teachers feel Korean society treats them very badly when attempting to teach the English language.

The Korean instructors almost make it a point to let their certified and some with teaching credentials counterparts as second class.

Too bad.

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