I think it’s important for students to learn foreign languages, but man, this is getting downright ridiculous.
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Wasn’t this development inevitable?
Consider who thought up the idea and who they’re trying to court.
Interesting, especially considering that the local press recently featured articles regarding the loss-making, non-achieving
Catskill kiddie campsEnglish towns already in operation in various places, whose only success has been in hoovering up money from the less well-to-do on the pretext of teaching them English so that their kids don’t even have the opportunity to get any exposure to real things foreign by just taking a trip abroad.Pantasy Island.
It’s a complete waste of time. It’s never going to be a full immersion town if there are Koreans living there.
Since the are worried about losing the income from children going abroad why don’t Korean schools / Universities team up with schools in England, America, Canada etc to setup branches of Koreans schools overseas?
That way children can have some Korean speakers there as backup if there are problems, but everything else is going to be in English.
The Korean government has finally figured out that businesses won’t invest in a country that refuses to speak English. Within a few years they plan on making English mandatory for part of their school day. It’s something like half a day of English. They wanted to do the same in some Caliornia schools for Spanish awhile back but people put up a huge stink. I don’t know if they do it now or not. Anyways….I think it shows you how desperate they are to stay economically competitive and maybe they are starting to see the errors of thier ways. Hopefully it works out.
It will be just like Hawaii.
Because then they’d have to share the income with the roundeyes in a fashion that would give the roundeyes the better part of the buy and, much more importantly, they’d have to cede control over the whole enterprise.
If it wasn’t for the damned Japanese and Americans, Korea would never be in this fix. Damn Japanese and Americans! Hey Someguy, sometimes you bust my guts
Once again the insecurity comes shining through like a f*king lightning bolt! Of course people leave to learn English. Of course every Korean who can leave does, some to come back to rape and pillage. If Korea wants to become a real state it will have to fix the problem they refuse to, themselves.