Robert Koehler from Marmot hole blogs about the setting up of foreign English teacher union in South Korea.
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Many American ESL teachers feel Korean society treats them very badly when attempting to teach the English language.
The Korean instructors almost make it a point to let their certified and some with teaching credentials counterparts as second class.
Too bad.