Another outstanding ESL teacher: “I love Korea” repeated over and over in Kermit the Frog’s voice until the kids have enough Konglishee to fool their parents. I half expected to hear him coaching them on “Numba One Che-nol, Oh Shee En”.
the dude seems to be leaving South Korea to return to Chicago (uh-nuh nara ae suh wat suh yo? Uh, Chicago.)
check out the 4th video from the top down, titled, This man needs to be put in a Korean jail…
That video redeems him. There’s also an adult in the background, who appears to be another teacher who walks by, without making any fuss about kids messing around everywhere.
It can be shown that the girl with the glasses speaks some sort of English. Maybe he taught her?
Well, I’m of the impression that he legitly taught in a real school and hakwon and he’s simply making a video to store some memories.
I think the titles for the videos were misleading on purpose.
It appears that he’s a warm hearted nice guy, who apparently likes kids.
ha! gotta give it to the guy that he doesn’t go bonkers. is this out-of-control student population representative of the korean education system? i think i’d snap within ten minutes in that kind of environment.
i kind of don’t like to see that kind of thing out there. it is risky and begs to be misinterpreted. i think picking up little boys in the air is one thing, but lifting up girls is a no no, and getting a kiss on the cheeck is a no no. all in all, this guy is creepy, even if he isn’t. i really really wouldn not wish to have this as ‘evidence’ at how ‘benevolent’ we are. i bet at that seongnam english village that teachers are told its not ok to lift up students nor sit on their laps. this is really innapropriate.
Been a long time since I have been on here and the first thing I see is this. I fully agree that the guy seems to like his students - I also think that he should be a little more careful - the Seongnam English Village incident alone should scare some sense back into him.
It is a shame that things like the SEV have allegedly occurred. I was speaking to a Korean prof. yesterday and he told me some story about a Korean who was stopped at the airport and charged with child porn because he had a picture of his naked (infant) son in his wallet. (Not sure I quite believe his story - but…..) I believe that many of the 100 day birthday pictures are actually taken in the buff - you can see them all over the streets as advertisements for photo studios. I am not sure what the point of the story was - whether it was to show me that Americans are just over-protective and willing to see the worst in people, 2. Koreans need to stop taking photographs of young naked children, or 3. That Americans will always be portrayed in a negative light - regardless of which side they are on - the protector - or the perpetrator.
Brendon Carr, he’s not supposed to teach anything.
Because he’s doing this during either recess or lunch time. I say it was, because in the 4th video, all the kids are messing around, and another teacher in the hall just wlaks by.
And yes, recess/lunch is like this in South Korea. At least it was like this when I went to school. Perhaps Baduk can back me up on this.
There is a time during school when the teacher is not there. That’s when the classroom becomes a very, very, very disorderly.
It’s a subculture in itself. I’m not sure if they do this in Japan, too, but I’ve never been to Japan.
It was our much deserved break. Even teachers tolerated it.
Once some look-out said, “Sun Saeng Nim Oh Shin da ! (the teacher is coming !), then we all assumed our desk positions. Like as if a general walked into the soldiers’ barracks or something.
We didn’t always have a look out. That was voluntary and most likely during odd breaks, when it was supposed to be class time, but it somehow became break time due to the teacher’s ill-fated decision to leave us to study alone. Usually the bell told us when to sit and resume studying positions.
I would fault him on one thing. The students obviously don’t fear him as they would the other teachers.
also remember that speaking comes last. Most likely these kids can spell out book, apple, desk, American, pie, beef, pizza. And fill in some grammer exercises with blank lines. I was in 7th grade, and hardly anyone spoke any English, but knew how to spell and read a little. A little.
they probably hired an American to have speaking come first, but that’s another story. The girl with the glasses is on much better progress than I was at that age.
Remind me not to do any peer teaching reviews with some of you:) Dan is fine. The kids are fine. As WJK pointed out, it looks like they’re all on break anyway.
Also, that’s quite a good Fireman’s Carry wrestling move that he does. In addition to learning English, the kids are getting quite a bonus–self defense skills.
One of the things I miss about Korea is the lack of fearmongering. One could talk to kids, joke around with kids, send them out to bring back ju-ju bars for all–even wrestle with them. As far as I know, it’s only in the U.S. where twisted thoughts of child molestation are the first thing on many people’s minds. Fortunately, that’s not all of the U.S. In the small Midwestern town where I grew up, it was much like Korea.
Here, in a different part of the U.S., I don’t even look at strangers’ kids, and have little to do with the neighbors’ kids. The fear is all around me, and I have to pretend that it’s as real as the TV makes it seem to be.
I don’t know, I guess I was expecting something worse by reading the title but he seems harmless to me and is just doing his job (i.e. babysitting). The kids seemed happy and liked him. Nothing wrong with that…
Is anybody sure that the Koreans won’t get ahold of these videos and edit them to make it look like the guy is molesting his students? Inquiring minds.. and all that..
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Another outstanding ESL teacher: “I love Korea” repeated over and over in Kermit the Frog’s voice until the kids have enough Konglishee to fool their parents. I half expected to hear him coaching them on “Numba One Che-nol, Oh Shee En”.
. . . and luke’s duck likes lakes that luke likes . . .
(Dr. Seuss — “Fox in Socks”)
the dude seems to be leaving South Korea to return to Chicago (uh-nuh nara ae suh wat suh yo? Uh, Chicago.)
check out the 4th video from the top down, titled, This man needs to be put in a Korean jail…
That video redeems him. There’s also an adult in the background, who appears to be another teacher who walks by, without making any fuss about kids messing around everywhere.
It can be shown that the girl with the glasses speaks some sort of English. Maybe he taught her?
Well, I’m of the impression that he legitly taught in a real school and hakwon and he’s simply making a video to store some memories.
I think the titles for the videos were misleading on purpose.
It appears that he’s a warm hearted nice guy, who apparently likes kids.
The site is obviously a clever commentary on Korean stereotypes of Westerners, offering video evidence of how benevolent Westerners truly are.
That, or it’s an ironic commentary on Western self-conceptions of benevolence.
I have no idea what I’m trying to say. All I know is that, after viewing those video clips, I have a sudden and strange desire to watch lesbian porn.
Kevin
PS: There’s always the chance that the blog is simply a place to display videos of a guy honestly having fun teaching kids.
…Nah. Couldn’t be that.
It’s clear he likes kids. I’m not sure they learned anything, though.
No harm, no foul. At least the image is positive.
I don’t know. I think it was bad form to link to that site. Whatever though, this isn’t my blog.
Hope there’s no more picking on guys.
I would say that the titles he chose were written with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
He seems harmless enough and the kids seemed to really like him and he, the kids.
ha! gotta give it to the guy that he doesn’t go bonkers. is this out-of-control student population representative of the korean education system? i think i’d snap within ten minutes in that kind of environment.
i kind of don’t like to see that kind of thing out there. it is risky and begs to be misinterpreted. i think picking up little boys in the air is one thing, but lifting up girls is a no no, and getting a kiss on the cheeck is a no no. all in all, this guy is creepy, even if he isn’t. i really really wouldn not wish to have this as ‘evidence’ at how ‘benevolent’ we are. i bet at that seongnam english village that teachers are told its not ok to lift up students nor sit on their laps. this is really innapropriate.
Been a long time since I have been on here and the first thing I see is this. I fully agree that the guy seems to like his students - I also think that he should be a little more careful - the Seongnam English Village incident alone should scare some sense back into him.
It is a shame that things like the SEV have allegedly occurred. I was speaking to a Korean prof. yesterday and he told me some story about a Korean who was stopped at the airport and charged with child porn because he had a picture of his naked (infant) son in his wallet. (Not sure I quite believe his story - but…..) I believe that many of the 100 day birthday pictures are actually taken in the buff - you can see them all over the streets as advertisements for photo studios. I am not sure what the point of the story was - whether it was to show me that Americans are just over-protective and willing to see the worst in people, 2. Koreans need to stop taking photographs of young naked children, or 3. That Americans will always be portrayed in a negative light - regardless of which side they are on - the protector - or the perpetrator.
Brendon Carr, he’s not supposed to teach anything.
Because he’s doing this during either recess or lunch time. I say it was, because in the 4th video, all the kids are messing around, and another teacher in the hall just wlaks by.
And yes, recess/lunch is like this in South Korea. At least it was like this when I went to school. Perhaps Baduk can back me up on this.
There is a time during school when the teacher is not there. That’s when the classroom becomes a very, very, very disorderly.
It’s a subculture in itself. I’m not sure if they do this in Japan, too, but I’ve never been to Japan.
It was our much deserved break. Even teachers tolerated it.
Once some look-out said, “Sun Saeng Nim Oh Shin da ! (the teacher is coming !), then we all assumed our desk positions. Like as if a general walked into the soldiers’ barracks or something.
We didn’t always have a look out. That was voluntary and most likely during odd breaks, when it was supposed to be class time, but it somehow became break time due to the teacher’s ill-fated decision to leave us to study alone. Usually the bell told us when to sit and resume studying positions.
I would fault him on one thing. The students obviously don’t fear him as they would the other teachers.
also remember that speaking comes last. Most likely these kids can spell out book, apple, desk, American, pie, beef, pizza. And fill in some grammer exercises with blank lines. I was in 7th grade, and hardly anyone spoke any English, but knew how to spell and read a little. A little.
they probably hired an American to have speaking come first, but that’s another story. The girl with the glasses is on much better progress than I was at that age.
So teaching English in Korea is really just being a babysitter?
that’s not what I said. I said the guy was filming/having fun during his lunch/play time and their lunch/play time. What’s wrong with that?
Better than a tame ‘tard tinkling tutor.
smart kids
Remind me not to do any peer teaching reviews with some of you:) Dan is fine. The kids are fine. As WJK pointed out, it looks like they’re all on break anyway.
Also, that’s quite a good Fireman’s Carry wrestling move that he does. In addition to learning English, the kids are getting quite a bonus–self defense skills.
One of the things I miss about Korea is the lack of fearmongering. One could talk to kids, joke around with kids, send them out to bring back ju-ju bars for all–even wrestle with them. As far as I know, it’s only in the U.S. where twisted thoughts of child molestation are the first thing on many people’s minds. Fortunately, that’s not all of the U.S. In the small Midwestern town where I grew up, it was much like Korea.
Here, in a different part of the U.S., I don’t even look at strangers’ kids, and have little to do with the neighbors’ kids. The fear is all around me, and I have to pretend that it’s as real as the TV makes it seem to be.
I don’t know, I guess I was expecting something worse by reading the title but he seems harmless to me and is just doing his job (i.e. babysitting). The kids seemed happy and liked him. Nothing wrong with that…
Is anybody sure that the Koreans won’t get ahold of these videos and edit them to make it look like the guy is molesting his students? Inquiring minds.. and all that..
If this guy is considered “fat”, I must be a sumo wrestler.