The Education Ministry’s National Institute for International Education Development (NIIED) wants to hold a dialogue with the newly formed Association of Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK):
National Institute for International Education Development (NIIED) President Rhee Taek-soo, 55, said that the agency will have open-minded dialogue with the fledgling Association of Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK). Rhee sees vigorous communication with foreign teachers as key to the development of English education in Korea.
“We need open minds to communicate with foreign teachers who are from different cultures. The two groups (Koreans and foreigners) from different backgrounds have to create a new culture through communication,” Rhee said in an interview with The Korea Times.
“It is our mission to turn foreign nationals into fans of Korea, and we should remember they are diplomats (who will promote Korea back in their home countries). Hence, we will correct and develop our current system to collect voices of foreign teachers,” he added.
This should be interesting.
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“we should remember they are diplomats (who will promote Korea back in their home countries)”
Promote Korea as a place to avoid? Already on it.
Interesting…
What’s with the comments, though? It looks like someone is going out of his way to incite hatred against foreign residents of Korea by posting rather offensive comments against Koreans and Asians in general.
“we should remember they are diplomats (who will promote Korea back in their home countries)”
Doesn’t he know that we are already promoting Korea in our countries? Slogan is: “DON’T COME HERE!”
I congratulate (NIIED) President Rhee Taek-soo for his open minded perspective. Regardless of what settles out in the end, he seems to be approaching things with an appropriate amount of political candor.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
A nice and probably well-intentioned idea, but a little late in coming. Each time I head home for a visit, I never fail to hear a story or two from a friend or cousin about how somebody they know went over to Korea and got screwed over on airfare, housing, pay, etc. (I should point out that in some cases, the teacher in question supposedly enjoyed the overall experience, in spite of getting shafted here and there.) Anyway, maybe some good will come from this.