Korean fasion designer touches english teacher's johnson!!??

This is too funny!!! Talk about a curious and creepy situation! I hope the teacher's emotional scars will heal quickly.

Curiosity Killed the Cat… Or Made You Touch the Foreigner’s Johnson
A 28-year-old fashion designer by the name of Mr. Park has been booked on charges of sexually assaulting an American man in a Mapo-gu sauna.

According to police, Park assaulted (which probably means in this case inappropriately touched) the American, a 27-year-old English teacher, as he slept in the sauna jjimjilbang. The victim had his loins covered with a towel as he slept.

Park pleaded with the police for leniency, claiming he did it “out of curiosity since he was a foreigner.”
Marmot's Hole...

Why is it that this type of media NEVER makes it to Korea's English media. It's in the Korean Chosun Ilbo, but not the English edition? (Damn funny story though!)


English Teacher Union Bad News for Hagwon?
With demand for English teachers skyrocketing, foreign English teachers are now pushing for the creation of their own union, reports the Hankyung Shinmun.

While there’s no legal problems with foreign teachers establishing a union, the paper reports that should they become a pressure group and demand things like, oh, boosting wages, it could drive up private education costs.

According to people in the English education industry, some 40 foreign teachers have recently created a group called the Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK), and are gathering members in order to form a labor union.

The union would be open to E and F visa holders involved in the public and private education fields.

According to members of ATEK, the group’s aim is to improve the position of foreign English teachers working in Korea.
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Korean-American Instructor Arrested on Murder Charge
A second generation Korean American was arrested here after evading an FBI search for nearly nine years on charges of killing a retired policeman in the United States.

The murder suspect, identified as Nam, 31, an ethnic Korean with American citizenship, was caught at a private school in Gyeonggi Province where he was teaching English, police said.

The suspect has worked here as an instructor at private language schools in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Jeolla and Gyeongsang provinces since fleeing the United States while on bail.

``He changed his workplace every two or three months in order not to be caught,'' Lee Jae-sool, the spokesman for the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, said. ``He will soon be extradited to the United States after appearing in a Korean court.''

He was initially arrested in January 1997 in Pennsylvania, with three other accomplices on charges of killing a former U.S. policeman with the victim's own gun.

The suspect was granted bail for $1 million and confined under house arrest, but he fled to Seoul the following year.

Police had searched for the suspect since 1998 at the request of the FBI and arrested him on March 4, 1999. But he was soon released as an extradition treaty between Seoul and Washington did not exist at the time. The treaty took effect on Dec. 20, 1999.

Police resumed their search for the suspect from April 2000 and uncovered his whereabouts in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province after focusing their investigation on popular locations for foreigners and private language schools.

``He first arrived here as a tourist but worked as an English teacher,'' Lee said. ``Most small-scale private language schools usually hire native English speaking teachers without checking their personal background because they cost less than qualified teachers.''
Korea Times....

Check out his FBI Wanted poster!


NOW...Let the good times roll!

Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura stands with Doraemon and Nobita -- characters from the popular comic series "Doraemon" -- at the foreign ministry in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 19, 2008, after the minister named the robotic bluecat as Japan's first Anime Ambassador. Doraemon will work to promote Japan's pop culture to the world.