Non-Video Posts Teaching in Korea

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Martina’s Super Old Dance Festival Footage

Footage from Martina’s School Festival, where she dances to Rain, Big Bang, Wondergirls, and Lee Hyori.

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Bucheon Girls’ High School

Martina just finished her last day of teaching in Korea. Here’s the video she made of the memories she had.

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Korean School Festivals

Remember that behind the scenes footage we did on our episode of Running Man, where Nichkhun gives Martina’s students a shout out? That was meant [...]

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Korean Exam Day

This November 18th was one of the most important days in the life of a Korean high school student: Korean Exam Day. High school students [...]

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Why I Love Teaching

Believe it or not, but we love teaching. Love it. Teaching in Korea isn’t just a job for us. It’s our careers, and it’s something [...]

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Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools: Bingo

Now that March is around the new school year has started, and with it has come a lot of new English Conversation Teachers. Hopefully you’ve [...]

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Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools Guess Who

Next week we’re going to be giving another presentation for the Gepik Orientation, so here’s a video in the spirit of helping teachers. Here’s another [...]

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Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools – Battleship

We have received a lot of questions about teaching English in public schools. If we don’t speak Korean, how do we communicate with our students? [...]

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Korean Trick or Treating

Halloween is not celebrated here in Bucheon or the rest of Korea, so I – Simon – tried to teach my middle school students about [...]

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Korean Fitness Tests

This Friday I – Martina – had no classes because it was Fitness Test Day in Bucheon All Girls’ High School. I wasn’t sure what [...]

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Bucheon High School Festival

The day after we sang our hearts out in a Bucheon No-Rae-Bang was a Saturday, which, as you may recall, means fun times around Bucheon [...]

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Simon’s Summer School

On Tuesday I – Simon – finished teaching my last day of Summer School. Now I just sit in the office from 8:30-4:30, doing nothing. [...]

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Supercool Phone

This is a student in Simon’s Extra classes. He’s in this class for no good reason. The class is full of students with very weak [...]

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Class Control

I had to take a movie of this, even though it’s not that exciting. I have a class of students who are rowdy as all [...]

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Simon’s New Office

Today started off pretty poorly for me. To begin with, I forgot my Starbucks Double Shots at home. I usually pack two in my bag [...]

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The School System

Today is the first of three days that I (Simon) have to spend in an empty school. The entire school is away on a three-day [...]

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Our First Day of School

So here’s the update from the first day of school. To begin with, we are very tired right now, and we want to go to [...]

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