A foreigner was arrested Saturday during South Korea's win over Greece at the World Cup. Samuel Kigens, 26, was held on one charge of indecent clothing. According to Chief Director of Police, Lee Dae Min, he was "not wearing red to a Korean football game."
An additional charge is pending against Kigens for "not knowing the chants and songs" that everyone was singing around him. Although the chants and rhythms are not taught anywhere in English, it is still expected of all people watching South Korea soccer.
During the week, I teach company workers at Lundbeck Korea, a Danish pharmaceutical company based at the World Trade Center building in COEX. There are five students in total, and we have 1 on 1 conversational classes focusing on critical thinking and discussion. They're quite enjoyable lessons, and a good way to discuss interesting topics with intelligent 'students' (they're all married and most of them have children, so I feel more like the student). Some of the topics I get from various news sources, and others from Wikipedia.
If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. - Shelley Morrison
Last Sunday was a public holiday here. Memorial Day, held on the 6th June each year, commemorates those who have died for what has become the Republic of Korea.
But there are many a native speakers who have certain misconceptions or doubts about Indians and their ability to teach English. And I do not blame them because they are more or less speaking from their experience or their interaction with the Indians they have met so far.
But a mere percentage of Indians one would meet would not represent the whole of India. With this article I would like to clarify that there is more to India than meets the eye.
Blood donation is one of the best things you can do for your fellows. It’s easy, in Korea you get a little gift, and you save the life of someone anonymously. I can think of few better things a person could do.
GEORGE JONAS, columnist for the National Post of Canada, is a treasure of the Anglosphere–everything he writes, whether serious or light-hearted, is worth reading. Readers with an interest in Northeast Asian affairs will find this recent column especially worthwhile. It’s called Dear Leader’s see-no-evil enablers, and it examines the international response to North Korea’s sinking of the Cheonan.
In fact, I missed the second planting because my university had a ‘make-up classes’ day on Saturday. I would like to comment further on the Saturday classes but fear I might be too specific and too negative for a public blog.
Anyway, on sunday morning, I planted beens with my brother- and father-in-law. Here, the father-in-law is preparing the tools.
Somehow two weeks have slid by without a fresh Coco post, days teaching weather and short vowel sounds, evenings researching and writing my first story for Eloquence Magazine (more on that later), and an attempt to incorporate sit-ups into my daily routine. This weekend S.
I decided it was time for another feature. Since The Economist is my one remaining subscription, which means it’s my newspaper, I should be more forthcoming and deliberate about my opinions toward it.
Recent comments