Teaching in Korea: Naming Students

I explore why it's easy to learn Korean students' names (they're given English ones), and a superstition you might encounter in the classroom.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• superstitions
• korea
• names
• korean
• teaching
• esl
• english

[KansaiJesse]

Do any of your kids insist on being called by their Korean names? I have a lot of Korean friends, so I always like to hear their Korean names as well.

[onceatraveler]

@KansaiJesse None of mine have. Of course, in my experience the Korean teachers usually demand they respond to their English names.

[tacticalespionageACT]

What is the strangest English name that you have come across while teaching in Korea?

[onceatraveler]

@tacticalespionageACT Probably Momo, even though that's not an English name.

[The88Nomad]

aaaaw! It's so horrible of us teachers giving them names. I would love to know their real names, that they had since birth, but I doubt that I'll be able to pronounce it properly!

That might be the reason why they prefer us calling them by their 'new', adopted, name...

[kamloopsmama]

@tacticalespionageACT GOD

[kamloopsmama]

@tacticalespionageACT

GOD

[AlyssasAdventures]

Thanks for the info

[chrismecking]

thanks for the info...I didn't know that ;)

[greob]

Good tip. Although I would definitely write only my own name in red as a tongue-in-cheek joke anyway. :)