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My co-teacher was upset this week by this story of a student
committing suicide after suffering horrific bullying. I live and work in Daegu, so the story is close to home.
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A while back, one of my co-teachers was stressed. The amount of paper-work Korean teachers have to do is immense. Her burden was exacerbated by the vice-principal. He was looking to move up to principal, and his university major, decades ago, was English language education. He had in the meantime forgotten all his English, but he was still keen to boost his resume by signing up for every English project that the DMOE announced. This work would then fall on my co-teachers, and to a lesser extent, me. This may be a classic case of Confucianism gone awry; or it may be just that the maxim “shit rolls downhill” is universal.
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I’d been back in Korea a couple of weeks by then and I was feeling restless. It was high winter and winter had been going on too long. I was glad to be back and there wasn’t anywhere else in the world I wanted to be, but I wasn’t working and people were away. While I was gone a record snow dump had covered the entire peninsular and the landscape had changed and all of it somehow made me uneasy.
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Prospective EPIK teachers might be interested to see what an example work schedule looks like. This is my timetable for this semester. Yours will be different.
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Back in Korea. I missed a blizzard and the country turned white in my absence.
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