tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post3435034298716131084..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Is there no law to catch fake English instructors?matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-76165104372562415762011-04-21T19:59:52.658+09:002011-04-21T19:59:52.658+09:00Correction: The KCUE no longer verifies degrees fo...Correction: The KCUE no longer verifies degrees for the purposes of getting an E2.Darth Babaganooshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292625818454308095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-8144417371283403762011-04-21T15:47:54.461+09:002011-04-21T15:47:54.461+09:00This article's focus on the inability of Korea...This article's focus on the inability of Korean laws to prevent nefarious foreigners (who fraudulently insinuate themselves into employment positions) from acting with impunity in Korea and its emphasis on enhancing national authority (e.g. creating a “government-backed investigative organization”) is a <a href="http://www.rjkoehler.com/2010/04/30/hmm-canadians-just-must-be-unused-to-subways/#comment-370165" rel="nofollow">familiar theme</a>. <br /><br />The continued calls for “verification” enhancement measures by national authorities (<i>in Korea</i>) –- whether they be <a href="http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2011/04/accurately-determining-if-e2s-are.html" rel="nofollow">new high-tech drug testing procedures at special gov-designated hospitals</a>, enhanced criminal background procedures by the MOJ, enhanced academic verification by gov-backed org –- represents a call for the enhancement of sovereign authority over noncitizens in the territory. <br /><br />Whatever other value these procedures have (and no doubt there is a need to ensure there are competent teachers in the classroom), their symbolic value is highly significant. Foreign teachers in Korea represent the first “critical mass” of Westerners that Korea (finally) has the ability to fully exert her sovereign authority over. Early missionaries had extraterritorial protections, the SOFA allowed USFK military forces to evade Korean jurisdiction. <br /><br />The (real and imagined) perpetual inability of Korea to protect herself against those perceived to be immoral, dangerous and acting with impunity with her borders has resulted in the accumulation of a great deal of 'frustrated sovereignty,' the discharge of which we are witnessing with foreign English teachers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-63362826206208279042011-04-21T12:03:33.315+09:002011-04-21T12:03:33.315+09:00I'd love to be a fake English teacher, but I&#...I'd love to be a fake English teacher, but I'm not sure if there's a greater demand for the Gibberish or Pig Latin varieties.holterbarbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16803994461554294553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-23515875275196135482011-04-21T10:56:10.598+09:002011-04-21T10:56:10.598+09:00And here is the argument being made for the MoE to...And here is the argument being made for the MoE to take over all verifications, and leave Immigration out of it.<br /><br />E2s have their credentials verified through Kimmi, Korean embassies and notaries/apostilles. It's the Korean English teachers and the non-E2s that go practically unregulated. <br /><br />A hagwon owner is going to verify a Korean teacher's or F2/F4's (fake) foreign degree? *eyeroll* That would require an English level high enough to communicate with the relevant universities abroad. How many hagwons are run by people who can do this? Very few. Not surprising it doesn't get done.<br /><br />The MoE knows who all the teachers are (regardless of visa or nationality), and knows where they are all working. Obviously, THEY are in the best position to weed out the fakes.<br /><br />The KCUE is an alternate way of getting it done, supposedly, but since they stop accepting verification requests when they are backlogged, maybe they should hire more people first before promising verification services.Darth Babaganooshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292625818454308095noreply@blogger.com