Korean School Festivals

Filed as: Teaching in Korea // Responses: 42

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 to be seen by Martina’s students for their school festival, which just happened last week. Here’s a video of the school festival, but not including Martina’s students reactions to seeing Nichkhun. Unfortunately, we were not there when the video was being shown, but someone else does have a video of it. We’ve asked them for the video, and hopefully, someday soon, we’ll be able to post that up as well :D

Now, Korean School Festivals are really quite an awesome experience. Students transform their classrooms into something different for a day, like a café, or a nail salon, or a game room, or a haunted house. You can go from class to class and experience something different and fun in each room. So we did! We brought the camera along for the ride. We couldn’t bring it into the haunted house, unfortunately, because it was too crowded in there and way too dark anyways. Too bad!

Also, students do performances on stage, be it singing a song, playing instruments, or doing a dance. They practice for a long, long time, all for this day. Martina and one of her co-teachers decided to do something similar. They, too, had a performance for the students. Unfortunately, we can’t put it on YouTube because of copyright issues (the music in the background isn’t ours), so we’ll be posting it on our Facebook Fan Page tomorrow. Huzzah!

Anyhow, it’s stuff like this that makes teaching English in Korea so awesome, and they’re definitely some of the fondest memories we’ll have of our students. Finally, as always, big thanks to JB and Annie from [닉쑤] Enjoy Your Happy Life~* for the Korean subtitle translations! Hopefully they won’t get bored of translating any time soon. Bless em!

  • http://twitter.com/canadianmuse Nicole A Hall

    iv been thinking about taking a international BA so i can teach in korea, and this just makes me really want to do it

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Berg-Beak/100002073458003 Berg Beak

    Tteokbokki is very spicy :D Even though I’m a Korean, I’m poor at eating it :D lol

  • eblu

    awesome festival!
    hmm…just wanted to let you know that kimonos for both men and women are supposed to be worn with the left side over the right side (the opposite is only used for corpses in burials) so if/when you guys get to go visit Japan, remember that! =]

  • Clarissa Wang

    I wish American schools had these festivals too. Suggestion: I just discovered this video and I can’t fish through the eatyourkimchi wall for a post that’s 6-months old. Could you post the link to the rest of the festival? I’m really interested!  

    I love videos that you two post that involve some South Koreans like this one!

  • JANG SO JIN

    와우 멋지네요! 중학교 인가요? 아니면 고등학교? 축제라… 저도 중학교 때는 재밌게 했었는데… 잘 ë³´ê³  가요!

  • in hwan

    잘 보고가요~ 좋은 영상 감사합니다.

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