In an effort to get Korean businessmen more motivated and excited about learning English, a few online companies have popped up within the last couple of years, offering English lessons taught by beautiful young ladies. One such company, Red English (a term used in Korea for an adult website is a “red” website) seems to stand out as being the most blatant when it comes to selling English lessons with sex appeal, as a view of their above promo video will attest to. However, the lessons the pretty instructors teach are as legitimate as any taught by Korean English teachers at private language academies in Korea and ’nuff said about that. Like their lessons, Red English’s website is all in Korean, except for a few English words here and there.
Below are the five current instructors of Red English. The large print with their names in red (which is odd because writing a person’s name in red ink is a sign of death in Korea), translates to; “New and exciting English learning with instructor (her name)” The ladies fluency in English is hard to ascertain as seemingly all of the instruction is given in Korean with just the lesson’s topic sentence spoken in English, but their English pronunciation sounds fairly good.
I suppose some of these ladies may even give Korean lessons to English-speakers on the side, which is how Christine Jang gained Internet infamy a couple of years back.
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Ahhhhh Koreans teaching English. I remember my old school where the Korean English teachers wouldn’t talk to the foreign teachers…. because they couldn’t. Even the head teacher with a masters degree in english literature insisted we use a fake american accent so she could at least understand something we said. Damn i wish my korean colleagues had looked like this….
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