Took this back in March, while visiting our daughter, who is teaching English in Japan for this past year. We took the opportunity to take a couple of weeks to travel around Japan. She is in Hirado, south of Nagasaki. I didn’t want to haul my DSLR, so I made do with the phone camera.
Beautiful!! I've a question tho as a Korean I never understood so many Europeans come to Korea and Japan to teach English. We literally have so many Europeans now living in my street so i dont undertstand why not go to Africa or Syria to teach English?/
Would you rather live in Korea or in Syria?
Would rather live in Korea because I was born here.
And if you wanted to teach Korean in another country, would you rather teach in Syria, an African country, or the US or Europe?
Because Korea is more developed, I would imagine. And Syria has state department advisories as a dangerous location for Americans to travel. Teaching English is a good way to travel abroad and not have it cost a lot, since they have guaranteed employment in their host country.
The program my daughter is on does all of the hard work in finding a place to live, arranging a vehicle, work visa, all of those complications for a young person living abroad.
I think Koreans needs to ban English like Chinese did. Chinese ask all the foreigners to learn mandarin or Cantonese if they want to work and live in the country apart from few English teachers.
Why do you think it should be banned for foreigners?
Like lots of Europeans are coming to our country. A lot
I’m sorry you feel that way. Cultural exchange programs such as the JET programme in Japan, and whatever equivalent there is in Korea are wonderful programs which promote and encourage understanding amongst nations. And the world can certainly use more understanding instead of less. I appreciate the perspective, though.