*Starting date: ASAP
*Time and Date: Will be decided after meeting but mostly it will be once a week.
1.5 hrs/1 day
*Student information : Celebrities of Climax Entertainment, CJ Entertainment
http://www.climix.co.kr/
http://www.cjent.co.kr/
(They belong to the top 5 entertainment company in Korea, They make movies, dramas, produce albums, manage stars,..etc.)
*Notice: There will be no payment. It is a volunteer job.
It is a social networking between Entertainment/ Broadcasting celebrities and English teachers.
You will have lots of fun with Top stars and CEOs.
And you will gain a popularity being as English teacher of those top stars.
(Just like Madonna's Trainer, Celine Dion's English teacher ^^)
We will help you to take picture with them all the time and when you write a book they will be glad to write a recommendations for you.
HT to xCustomx. You know how we always get stories about Nigerians or Russians or Iranians getting busted for posing as native English speakers? How Koreans generally can't tell the difference betwteen a black guy with a French accent and me? It kind of works the same here. Unless it's Ha Ji-won I don't think I'd recognize a single Korean celebrity, so they could just stick any random person in front of me and I wouldn't know the difference. That's not to say they all look the same---black hair, dark eyes, good at math---but rather . . . well yeah, I guess they kind of all look the same.
This would be illegal, by the way, for people on an E-2 visa, who aren't permitted to work or volunteer outside of their designated place of employment. I don't have the regulations in front of me, but I recall they prohibit sleeping with D-list celebrities as part of a language exchange. The ad continues:
For example, this brand-new service, called Starcare, could be best understood if you imagine a situation where a famous star entertainer, seeking to advance into bigger markets like Hollywood in the future, can receive language help offered through Jinnybank, which will link him with the top language schools or excellent English teachers, so that the entertainer can prepare himself adequately before visiting the States.
Thanks to the safe and secure network foundation thus established, most of the major hospitals and language schools and lots of teachers have showed their interest in our new business and we have ended up signing an agreement with some of the top-ranked hospitals and schools in the nation.
Do we really need any more Korean entertainers in the US? Zero is enough, thank you very much.
As I mentioned earlier, a friend of an acquaintance was, according to rumor, Ha Ji-won's English tutor when she was filming something in Jeollanam-do. I don't recall them ever appearing out in public. As a matter of fact something tells me that a celebrity would probably be embarrassed to be photographed with a foreigner, even if that foreigner happened to be their English teacher. Wouldn't having an English teacher imply that they suck at English, hence a loss of face? (Singing "You-Go-Gull" is to an audience of millions is apparently not embarrassing, though). The difference between that earlier situation with Ha Ji-won and this one is that I'm attractive, and would be a boon to any celebrity's career. *cough*
5 comments:
I assume someone new to country will eat this sort of shit up.
The issue of E2s volunteering is pretty messed up. I run the local orphan tutoring group here in Gwangju and I was told by immigration that it is in fact illegal. They said that any form of language turtoring by teachers is a breach of contract and your visa. You can get permission from your employer and immigration to do it but it will cost around 50 grand.
Volunteering outside of langauge tutoring is possible but I have found that most Korean groups want nothing to do with foreign volunteers. They just don't know what to do with us. I have given up trying to help out with local volunteer groups.
I wouldn't mind volunteering my time for a worthy cause . . . orphans, refugees, children in the deep countryside . . . but seriously, celebs? In what crazy world are the talent who fill out soap opera stages and music videos the disenfranchised who need free English lessons?
to gomushin girl...
I really hope the "In what crazy world...?" question was a rhetorical one :p
What gomushin girl said, I agree with.
What michael said, is kinda funny, and kinda sad, in both cases because it's true. I mean, there are all sorts of laws in this country, but anyone who's been here more than 5 minutes can see that laws aren't enforced effectively. Sure sure, those Babobalooza peoples in Busan were at least hassled - ... were a couple even deported? I haven't caught up on the details of all that gossip - my understanding is that was all due to a local idiot misunderstanding a bit of risque humour and then overexaggerating the intent to the police.
Whatever, you were using the present tense Michael, so I'm hoping that means you're still volunteering at the orphanage...?
I'm still running the volunteer group. We are foreign run so we don't discriminate against anyone that wishes to volunteer. I was trying to say that I will no longer even attempt to become involved with any other type of Korean run volunteer organization.
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