Dopey English Teachers Strike Again

Now a days it seems like you can almost always count on “Low Quality Foreign English Teachers^TM” to take GI incidents out of the headlines:

A dozen Korean-American, American and Canadian English-language lecturers were under investigation for taking drugs on Monday.

Police said that they detected 12 English lecturers at private institutes, or “hagwons,’’ on suspicion of taking marijuana, Philopon or methamphetamine.

They arrested five Korean-Americans and two Americans, while charging without detention two Korean-Americans, a Korean-Canadian, a Canadian and an American.

The teachers, who are in their 20s and 30s, have worked as English lecturers at hagwons in Seoul and Kyonggi Province since early 2000 and habitually taken drugs at their residences, according to police.

The seven Korean-Americans, who emigrated to the U.S. when young, belonged to Korean-American crime rings there, such as Korean Play Boy. They were deprived of their permanent resident status by their host country for their involvement in drug trafficking, illegal gun possession and robbery, the police said.

After being expelled from the U.S., they got the jobs at the institutes with fake diplomas obtained through a broker.

Now a days it seems like you can almost always count on “Low Quality Foreign English Teachers^TM” to take GI incidents out of the headlines. 

What Yongsan busnapping?

By the way another quick observation, permanent residency card holders are not citizens thus they are not Korean-Americans as labeled in the article, they are in fact Koreans.

A whole lot more over at the Marmot’s Hole.