Responding to Foreign English Teacher Expose
The KBS2 expose’ of “dope smoking, low quality, foreign English teachers” lived up to the usual standards of Korean journalism. Truth be told I have known very few English teachers in Korea, but I do not think such statements as this can be substantiated with facts:
Police claim that S would even smoke marijuana into the early morning and then go to school and teach the students. Police explained that not only S but most foreign English teachers teach English by day and smoke marijuana by night. […]
The source also said, the majority of them find it easy to seduce Korean women and do drugs with them. Foreign English teachers see Korea not only as a land of opportunity but also as a perverted heaven. [translated by Korea Beat]
I seriously doubt “most” foreign English teachers smoke pot or the “majority” of them do drugs to seduce Korean women. As far as Korea being a “perverted heaven” that I can’t argue with, but it is not because of foreigners.
Michael Hurt has a good write up about the show with some quite humorous and colorful language along with a follow up posting and podcast about how the Korean media is trying to go after foreigners in regards to the fake degree scandal. He pretty much sums up the issue quite well and I encourage everyone to check it out.
Like I have always said, these things come in cycles. USFK has been very quiet so the Korean media turns its attention towards foreign English teachers. Once the Korean media gets tired of bashing English teachers they will move on to bashing 3D workers. Then after that there will probably be a few GI incidents which the Korean media can then turn their attention to again. After that the cycle just continues to repeat itself and the media usually just recycles the same old storylines over and over again. This is typical journalism in Korea.
so the expose is saying that instead of going to the Korean massage parlor; I can go to Korea, get paid to teach Engrish, find easy sources of drugs, and have my way with packs of innocent Korean girls without paying them???? Where do I sign up!!!
I doubt there is enough pot in Korea for every English teacher to smoke a joint. Outside of the news I've never known any to even come close to the stuff.
Sounds to me that the male, korean population is a bit jealous of the "white male" no matter the country. Which begs the question of; why do all these korean women want to sleep with non-korean males? During my time in korea, I couldn't miss the negative reaction from korean males when I was walking or talking with a korean female. Ah, Young Korean Females (YKF), how I miss them. These divorced, older (read: out of shape), KFs I met these days are just Squirrels looking for another nut (husband).
[…] ROK Drop: Responding to Foreign English Teacher ExposePosted 3 hours agoThe KBS2 expose’ of "dope smoking, low quality, foreign English teachers" lived up to the usual standards of Korean journalism. Truth be told I have known very few English teachers in Korea, but I do not think such statements as this can be substantiated with facts: Police claim that S would even smoke marijuana into the early morning and then go to school and teach the students. Police explained that not only S but most foreign English teachers teach English by day and smoke marijuana by night. […] The source also said, “the majority of them find it easy to … [Link] […]
pretty funy that koreans go out every night and get blasted drunk and sleep it off half the next day at work but some how smoking a joint before teaching is so bad
hypocrites!!!!!
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Whatever has been said in Korea about foreigners is false.Koreans ar eonly just beginning to be exposed and never knew that in open societies,intermarriages are ok.Surprsingly they only allow thier daughters to marry Americans,Britons,Aussie and Newzealanders so they can be citizens of those rich countries.That's why Korean girls line up in Itaewon in search for men.Wow!!!Koreans like wher ethey will benefit and it's little ownder