So I guess they're going to start with everybody named "Kim"?

I already invited the Anti-English Spectrum club to go fuck itself, and I'll have to extend the same courtesy to the Korea Association of Foreign Language Academies. Where to begin with this latest gem from the KT?

``The government is under the illusion that an unlimited number of English teachers exists overseas,’’ said Seo Jung-sook, information director of the association. ``Inviting more foreign teachers will eventually degrade the average quality of instructors and drive up costs for us.’’

Native English speakers who have no teaching experience in their 20s receive the same salaries as Koreans who have taught English for more than 10 years, she said.

I have no idea why a Korean English teacher would earn less money than a native speaker. Unless you count the whole "suck at English" part, and "can't pronounce 'th,' 'v,' 'f,' 'z,' 'l,' and 'r.'" Not being able to produce a grammatical sentence to save one's life could be considered a big disadvantage, as could not being able to pronounce a huge fraction of a language's sounds.

Not worth getting into the article too much, but I found this amusing:

As for the proposed association for native English-speaking instructors, the owners said they will not hire teachers hired who belong to the union-like body.

``I don’t think the association will truly represent foreign English teachers, so we don’t see any point in talking with it, even if it is established,'' Choi said. KAFLA said it will take all measures possible to prevent foreign teachers from forming the representative body.

Really not sure why the Korea Times is allowing these one-sided hit pieces to go on. They have yet to acknowledge or run the rebuttal I wrote last week to the Anti-English Spectrum article.