So you are fresh out of university and wondering what the fuck it is that you are going to do with your life until you drop over dead someday from a massive coronary and it suddenly occurs to you, “Hey, maybe I should go teach English in Asia, you know, see the world, get cultured [...]
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I’ve been on the ESL circuit in Korea for some time now. I’m a tad embarrassed to admit that my time in the so-called “Land of the Morning Calm” stretches way back to the good old days of 2005. Back then, I were a lad with world shattering plans. Well now it seems, I’m just [...]
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No education system exists without flaw; there is no such thing as an ideal system. Certainly, though, some type of universal educational standard should be in place. After nearly a year of teaching in Thailand, the system has innerved me so often and considerably that I’ve been drawn to the point of dissecting my personal quips [...]
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Editor’s Note: This is part two of an Asia Pundits series on the ESL Scene in Cambodia. Part 1 on Teachers can be found here. Soft Landings Like most westerners who end up staying in Cambodia, I showed up with little to no plan of action, or much cash at all to speak of. If I wanted [...]
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These are the long hot days of Korean summer, and I can picture a few teachers desk-warming and sweating out the whole day with nothing to do at school. Others will be away on vacation and some will be getting ready to go back home never to return to this god-forsaken place ever again. For [...]
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We’ve talked about the money a lot, but let’s get to the nitty-gritty of what it’s all about — teaching ESL to South Korean children. What’s that really like? Well, I hate to break it to you but if you’re going to South Korea to teach English for “easy” money then you are screwed screwed screwed [...]
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Ahhh, yes, let’s address head on the issue of money as a teacher in South Korea. As I have written elsewhere, you usually make about $24,000 a year as an English teacher in South Korea. One of the nice things about that is this leads to to something of a utopia because really there is [...]
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To begin this story, I will have to take you way back to the idyllic and overly idealistic glory days of English education in Korea, way back to 2006. At the time, I was employed by an elementary school in Seongbuk-gu, up in northern Seoul. My views on life in Korea at the time were just as hopeful [...]
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Now, let me make it clear from the beginning that I’m not calling David tz the Bitter Expat. I just think it’s funny that in Korean culture you’re supposed to bring white tofu to people who’ve just gotten out of jail and a recent post that David wrote touches on a lot of stuff that [...]
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Beginning in 2012, Seoul will start to phase out it’s native English teacher program in public schools throughout the city. The plan is to sack most native English teachers in public high schools in the city during 2012. Currently, over 300 high schools in Seoul have native English teachers. Under the new budget plan for [...]
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