Tips for Teaching English in Korea

Tips for Teaching English in Korea.
 
If you are thinking about teaching English in Korea, please read this article. If you are already an ESL or EFL teacher you might want to consider teaching English in Korea.

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Someone stole my new Doc Martens!

Yesterday, I bought my first new pair of shoes in four years.
The Doc Martens that I had bought in the States back in 2005 had served my feet well. As Forrest Gump mused, “there’s an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes, where they’re going and where they’ve been.”
In my case [...]

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Swine Flu Paranoia in Korea: Alert Status

It was just a matter of time in South Korea when the Swine Flu paranoia reached a new high prompting authorities to raise the alert status to a “red level” the highest level.
 
There’s been at least one or two articles a day in the Korea Times—the newspaper that I read daily—about Swine Flu [...]

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Korea to replace TOEFL with their own test

In another weird and absurd story to surface about English study in South Korea, this time it’s the Minister of Education coming up with an idea to replace TOEIC and TOEFL tests in Korea.
According to an article in the country’s oldest English language newspaper, “Korea is pushing for a state-developed, standardized English test that will [...]

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How did you end up in Korea? Part 1: Lost Luggage, Digestive Crackers, and David Letterman

“I turned left at Japan.”
When you decide to leave your country and travel halfway around the world to live and work-in my case to teach English in Korea-there are some things that you are never going to forget about your experience abroad and your life as an expat.
It goes without saying that for every foreigner [...]

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The Dolmens of South Korea

On the island of Kanghwa, west of Seoul, South Korea is a very large and interesting stone structure that from a distance, looks like a rock table. Known as a “dolmen” or “goindol” as it is called in Korean, it is a kind of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones [...]

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All Quiet on the Eastern Front

It’s 7:00pm on quiet Friday night in Daejeon, South Korea (for those of you not familiar with South Korea, Daejeon is about 100 miles south of Seoul)—quiet in that I am sitting alone in a classroom at the Woosong (pronounced oo-song) Language Institute waiting for one or two students to show up for their 7-9 [...]

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Wired

I would think being a power/electrical line worker or cable installer in Korea has got to be one of the more demanding jobs in Korea, and especially in this one neighborhood of Daejeon. Demanding in that it takes a very special and dedicated kind of person to have to figure out which wires go where [...]

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Tonight’s Dinner: Korean Doshirak

It’s 6:00 on a Friday night in Daejeon, South Korea and after a busy day of teaching, three hours at the gym (another 10 kilometers in 60 minutes) and then a 2-mile hike to HomePlus to stock up on Diet Coke, yoghurt, and water for the weekend, this expat is pooped.
So, when it came to [...]

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The Red Burnt Splendor of Autumn

The Red Burnt Splendor of Autumn
Just an awesome autumn photo that I took a couple of years ago at the Korean Folk Village in Yongin, South Korea. It is definitely one of my favorite photos of autumn that I have taken while I have been living in Korea.

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