When it comes to foreign language teachers, South Korea has made its choice: people from developing countries, regardless of how gifted they may be at teaching English as a foreign language, are not ...

Football teams send their assistant coaches to a high place to observe the whole field and get a better perspective of what's going on down below. Not having been an English teacher in Korea gives me ...

SEOUL — In three years of teaching English in South Korea, Tony Hellmann says he’s seen discrimination both in and out of the classroom. He knows teachers, he says, who are harassed for having Korean ...

I recently graduated with a degree in molecular biology and the job market being the way it is, I've been thinking about left-field options. I'm not sure if I have the right kind of personality to ...

The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles(KCCLA) and the Korea Academy for Educators(KAFE) hosted the seventh annual seminar on Korean history and culture and the Korean American experience from August ...

When Daniel Rosengard began teaching English at Dongan High School in Anyang, South Korea, his nervous students could barely sputter questions about President Bush and Paul Hamm, the U.S. Olympic ...

One of the best things about Suki Kim's new book is that, in many ways, it's a book within a book. On one level, it's a straightforward story of her time teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ...

Teaching East Asia: Korea promotes effective instruction about Korea in K-12 classrooms through professional development programs such as one-day workshops, summer institutes, online seminars, and ...

Today’s “globalized Korean” is being taught and learned in situations of varying desperation. For some students, Korean is essential for their survival. That desperation is described in all its ...