Yonhap: Unfit, Foulmouthed, Drunken English Teachers Running Rampant

You mean coming to school drunk and making the kids write ‘I don’t want to study’ 100 times is wrong?

I must have missed the memo...

F**k me {sorry Mum}, but it never stops. This piece of shite from Yonhap news makes it hard for me to remember that I actually quite like Korea.

Where to start:

"teachers quit without notice or resigned for reasons including inability to fit in, work, and illness"

By 'inability to fit in', I presume the Ministry means that they didn't do their 'duty' and put up with co-teachers not coming to class prepared (or not coming at all), schools who turn a blind eye when Korean teachers beat, molest and drive students to suicide and that they expected to be treated with dignity and respect... yeah, shame on them.

Next:

"Ministry statistics show that from January to April of last year 54 native-speaker teachers quit without notice or resigned... That was the number for four months, and is equivalent to 160 in a year."

Sure it is... if roughly 54 keep quitting every 3 months or so! Clearly he had access to the statistics, which were last year's from what the article said, so why not state the yearly average? I guess it didn't sound as good.

And look at this guy’s sources:

• “parents and teachers of middle school D”
• “A teacher at S high school”
• “An English teacher named Choi who works at a high school in Jeollanam-do”
• “One teacher who was worked with a native-speaker teacher for 18 months”
• “One elementary school teacher in Seoul”
• “A teacher at an elementary school in Mokdong”

Credible? I don't think so. It seems to me that he’s pulling this out of his arse. I'm sure I could go on but I don't want to. It just makes me angry. Honestly, the standards of the Korean media never fail to disgust (and occasionally entertain) me.

If I was Korean:

1. I'd be ashamed at the appalling lack of professionalism the media here so often displays;
2. I'd be embarrassed that the media is portraying my country as a racist, xenophobic cesspool;
3. I'd be demanding that the media lift their game;
4. I'd be demanding some accountability from those 'journalists' who continue to write this kind of biased, sensationalist muckraking crap.

As long as the media are not held accountable, I think we're going to see an escalation of this type of reporting and greater demonisation of English teachers.

F**ktards {sorry Mum}