TESL Korea News

Summer is still in full swing and so are many of Korea’s festivals, which will be hoping to catch the last of the sun’s rays now fall is beginning to creep up on us. Among some of the great festivals on this month include the World Martial Arts Festival in Chungju, the DMZ Korean International Documentary Festival, and the Seoul ... Read More

Teach ESL Korea Recruiting is teaming up with the good folks behind the Help Hannah Bar Crawl, to help raise money for a great cause. In Ilsan (Goyang) this event is what Dan Hendrickson, TEK owner, said was “a great way for (people) to get together and get to know each other, support a great cause, enjoy the Ilsan bar scene ... Read More

» Brooke Petersen Daegu is on the verge of one massive party, with only 30 days until the city will play host to the world’s fastest and strongest athletes, and hundreds of international sports officials. The 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics is one of the worlds top three sporting events, alongside the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. It begins Aug. ... Read More

This is how Korean's sort their differences. After being hit with the ball by the pitcher, this is how one batter reacted to the assault. Great Korean baseball fight I thought you all should see! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7D8aDp3RUs&feature=player_embedded ... Read More

By Darrell Slater Playing golf in Korea is like stepping into a world that you may feel you do not belong. It is a past-time that is usually only afforded to the more privileged of Korean society. Tradition and club rules have precedent everywhere. Two foreigners infiltrated one of these renowned courses and put these rules to the test. Last month, myself ... Read More

By Paul Graham, of LastingTransitions.com For those of us old enough to remember the supreme heyday of boxing back in the 80?s, before it’s eventual demise in the 90?s and 00?s, we were easily amazed when the popular battlers of Tyson, Holmes, Hagler, Douglas, Bowe, Spinks, Leonard, and “The Duke,”  arrived to the boxing arena with those fierce, ... Read More

By Andrew Farrell of SpeakingKorea.com Given baseball’s unrivaled popularity for national team-based sports, it’s not surprising that many foreigners writing English blogs have taken the opportunity to visit the eight stadia (one of two plural forms of stadium, stadia is the Latin version common in Europe, and I always prefer using it) that make up the 8 team Korean Baseball League. ... Read More

By Brooke Petersen A match-rigging scandal earlier this month has tainted the once pure image of professional K-League soccer and spread doubts the professional sport is a corrupted hub for match-fixing. Ten players were allegedly involved in the scandal which has already seen Daejeon Citizen midfielder Chung Jung-kwan, 30, take his own life. So far five have been arrested for alleged match-fixing ... Read More

By Brooke Petersen A professional football player among many others suspected of involvement in the match-rigging scandal that has rocked the K-League, was found dead in a Seoul hotel May 30. Police said Chung Jung-kwan, a former Jeonbuk Hyundai midfielder, was found hung from the ceiling of a Gangnam Princess Hotel room. With him was a four-page note confessing his involvement in ... Read More

By Brooke Petersen The company that brings you choco-pies, Bennigans, Sports Toto, Megabox and Showbox, has become embroiled in a scandal that involves the son-in-law of the late founder allegedly swindling money from the entertainment, sports and confectionary giant. Seoul court issued a warrant for the arrest of Tam Cheol-gon, 55, last Thursday May 26, on charges of ordering executives of the ... Read More