Category Archives: Korea

Genki in Seoul

If you ever see on my schedule that I’m planning on spending just 24 hours in a country again and aim to get some work done then please email me and tell me I’m mad! Especially if it’s Korea, the only country I’ve ever known highway traffic jams to last past midnight! I spent this…

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Learn Korean GenkiKorean.com

If you want to learn a bit of Korean, be sure to check out the upcoming Genki Korean site. As you’ll see it’s not finished yet, but there are a few nice little games on there including a talking alphabet page and some very nice numbers games. It’s quite fun to play and it really…

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Korea – CALL

The KOTESOL people are really into using computers to help the kids. In yesterday’s workshops I had a break so checked out some of the CALL (computer aided language learning) workshops. Jason Renshaw ( of English Raven fame ) did a great one on how he uses his own OnlinEnglish.net ( just one “E”) and…

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Korea CALL + Young Learners

Today was another very busy conference in Korea with lots of presenters mixed between CALL and the Young Learners group. Plus of course a massive meal in the evening with a whole pig as the main course! First up I had a special workshop for kindergarten teachers. And they were great. It was the first…

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Korea – Big Workshop!

Today was the main reason for popping over to Korea, two Genki English workshops at the KOTESOL Symposium. Korea is much further along than Japan, but still runs into the same sorts of problems, i.e. how to get the kids having fun whilst still progressing with their lessons. Hence the workshops went down great. Everyone…

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Off to Korea!

It’s travel time again! As usual I was in “computer-work-mode” before I set off and wasn’t wanting to set off, but once I did it’s all very exciting. It’s my 3rd trip to Korea ( 2nd this year!), but I hadn’t been to Seoul Station before ( great food and very friendly people), and now…

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