Alex posted a pertinent reflection on some of the challenges being a native English teacher in Korea. Noting something that could be easily taken directly from my own experience, he writes
In my first school, teaching kindergarten, I was still very much of the Westernized school of thought that "You don't touch the children. Ever." After a few weeks, I got pulled aside and the director explained that some of the moms were complaining that I wasn't "showing the children enough love."What caught my attention, though, is a link he included about a Korean teacher who has been accused of molesting students but is still allowed to teach. I'll leave the commentary on this to Alex, but this case strikes me as a pattern in Korea regarding sexual molestation cases. Consider the case of the disabled woman who was raped over several years by her male relatives; the judge released the rapists on suspended sentences because they were her only caretakers. There are, sadly, many such cases.
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