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Video Games. Koreans seriously know how to play video games. Anyone young (or old) enough to play the online multiplayer FPS game Counter-Strike will remember just how horrific of a beating they received from anyone with a Korean screen name. Koreans take their video games quite serious. Almost too serious. In late 2007, Korea received a somewhat unique distinction for opening one of the world's first boot camps for youths with internet addiction. Many of the participants cited video games as one of the reasons for their addiction (spending upwards of 17 hours a day online). There is also a reported 240 separate Internet-treatment centers sprinkled across Korea to help battle the growing problem. Goodness, and I thought checking... Show more

Stephanie says it is raining every day and she feels like she is in a 찜질방 all of the time. I am not sure if she likes the weather in Korea or not but she is not complaining about it. Sometimes she mentions that she would prefer to live in Korea. She is getting better at teaching English and the children like her a lot. They like her so much that someone made off with her shoes the other day. I understand that this is a common problem at this particular school because everyone wears expensive shoes. Hers were Converse. She was happy to get the opportunity to go shopping. She picked up some Adidas shoes to replace her Converse. She admits to having caught 공주병. She says we won't like her when she comes home because she is so spoiled... She... Show more

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Turns out the fire was on the school's playground. Fire drills were always fun when I was a student.  It usually meant at least a few minutes out of class.  As a teacher, they were a bit more inconvenient.  Chances are it would happen right when you were saying something important, or a student was REALLY close to understanding something. If you are not familiar with an American fire drill,  let me briefly explain. At sometime unknown to students (but usually the teachers knew)a bell would ring during classes.  We would all line up quietly at the door, and walk outside usually to a field.  Then we would stand in line for a few minutes watching everyone file out.  The goal was just to practice evacuating quickly and smoothly.  Then a... Show more

I have just returned from teaching english to 승진. The last few weeks I have been teaching him how to spell and write, and as a result he is also learning to read. I still don't really think I know what I'm doing when it comes to teaching a 5 year old English, but he is doing really really well. He used to attend the pre-school where I work, but it's been a few weeks, so the only time I see him is at his house on Wednesdays. During our lesson time I only speak to him in English now, because he is understanding well, and I no longer get a chance to speak to him in Korean at school (because he's not there). So, tonight, after our lesson he was playing with his brother as we were getting ready for dinner (which was amazing 김치 순재비 -... Show more