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We talk about the differences between Korean Humor and our humour? Are there things that just don’t translate well? Any failed jokes? What’s not funny in Korea?

We talk about how to get non-teaching jobs in Korea if you’re a foreigner, and the different issues with Visas in Korea

Here are a few awkward and funny conversations we had in Korea.

This week we talk about bullying in South Korea, the different ways students get bullied, and the different experiences we’ve had with bullying as teachers.

Here are two of the most awkward questions our students in Korea have ever asked. Hint: they’re both dirty.

This week we talk about the reactions our former Korean students had when we showed them North American music videos.

Korea seems to be concerned with fatness. Are you really that fat? We discuss difference in perceptions of weight in Korea for this week’s TLDR

The difference between students from South Korea and North America, as a result of their respective school systems.

This week’s Wonderful Treasure Find are chalkboard arm protectors, for those times that you get chalk all over your arms.

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

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

TL;DR – We’re rich, gun-loving skanks.

TL;DR – language barriers are frustrating but sometimes hilarious, and Spudgy feels no shame.

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

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 in their last year of high school (also known as 3rd grade) took their university entrance exams. This exam is what most of them have been studying for their entire […]

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 we’re really passionate about. We teach English in Canada, and we teach English in Korea as well. But it’s hard to explain to people why we like teaching so much, […]

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 seen our ESL Resources already so you can have an idea of what it’s like to teach English in Korea. The videos we made from our classes, though, make it […]

Your co-teachers right about now are asking you what you are going to do for your English lessons during winter camps, and they want a full schedule of what you’re going to do by tomorrow. Overwhelmed? Don’t be. I’ll give you mine. Here you’ll get the schedule to print out and give to your teacher, […]

We have received a lot of emails from people asking us how to become a teacher in Korea. Where can they find jobs teaching English? What kind of teaching job should they get? It’s a complicated process at times, with a lot of documents that need to be signed, stamped, and delivered. However, before you […]

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 video of a lesson we do teaching English in a Korean Middle School Class. Like the last Battleship lesson, this is a class where the teacher does minimal talking and […]