 All right, welcome to the live stream tonight. I'm here with my student in Korea One of my best students. He speaks English very well Su Min Kim, is that right? Yes, that's my name. Su Min Kim, and I just want to make sure If you if everyone is hearing and seeing us, please let us know Because sometimes these live streams there's a problem Mm-hmm How are you today, man? I am so tired because I didn't sleep last night because of football There was football game in 4 a.m. So I didn't sleep at 4 a.m. Who's playing? Who's playing my favorite team Manchester City versus Real Madrid? So you like Premier League? Yes, I love it. Premier League is my favorite thing How long have you been watching Premier League, man? I watched it almost five years or six years I'm not a soccer fan As you as you might have known, I don't really ask many questions about soccer, but I know Korean students or my Korean male students really really love soccer Why why are so many young Korean students into soccer? I Think it started from 2002 World Cup in South Korea. It was really Really great score of South Korea and started and after it was in G song part You know, yeah, it's a very famous soccer player in South Korea. He made it our Koreans Really liked the football and now is we have a sunny or Premier League So I think all people love sunny so they all likes the football. They love who? Sunny human son. Oh, his nickname is I'm not a soccer fan. He doesn't know sunny his name is sunny. No, oh my No, I was here in 2002 World Cup There's a lot of excitement at that time And you know, I was excited at that time, but still I didn't get into Premier League. So Anyway, yeah, a lot of Korean guys like Premier League Especially you who what's your favorite team again? Not just city. It's over there. That's my uniform How often do you wear that uniform? I Think how often do you wear that uniform? almost Almost every day. It's my it's my favorite favorite clothes. All right. It's my sleep clothes All right, let's talk a little bit a little bit more about you Where are you from? I'm from South Korea. I live in Suwon City. It's nearby Seoul So yeah, you live in Suwon City, which is south of Seoul And our university is Incheon City, which is west of Seoul. So are you in Suwon right now? Yes, I live in Suwon. So from Suwon to our school our university. How long how long does that take? Almost one and a half hours Why don't you get Like dormitory Oh My mother don't want that. She doesn't trust you. Yes. Why do you like drinking? No, I'm not drinking, but I like playing games Yes computer games. All right, we have some people asking questions in the chat JLL yk, what's your favorite game? my favorite game is FIFA online is a football actually and Another game is I played overwatch in my last day that not didn't play this this time FIFA online and overwatch Well, I'm gonna I'm concerned like your mom How many hours a day are you playing these games? In these day, I played almost One or two hours. I'm so busy today one or two hours a day That's still quite a lot. Maybe they but I didn't For you doing real sports real sports I didn't play the real sports No, I didn't I'm a lazy guy. All right cat asks. What's your favorite food? My favorite food my favorite food is tteokbokki. It's the Korean traditional food What it was tteokbokki tteokbokki is Do you know the dog is the They don't know what is that so it's made of rice cake, right? It's like like the rice cake and add a spicy sauce It's a hot food really spicy and hot food. Is this high-level food or is this street food? It's street food. It's really common in Korea. Is it healthy? No, it's not healthy. It makes me fat. Well, you know A lot of Korean girls. That's their favorite food. Usually the men don't choose that. Why are you choosing that? Oh? Maybe I'm just different. I Love tteokbokki very much Okay And do you have a girlfriend? Oh Who's asked that? Jlyk whoever that is. Oh, I think that's my friend. No, I don't have a girlfriend now Okay, and who's the best soccer player in Man City Man City, of course Kevin De Bruyne. I love him He scored yesterday actually he scored yesterday. Yes But you know the soccer seems like Disrupting your life because the games are on at terrible times, right? And that's right, you know, you're trying to study you're trying to make your way through the world and you got soccer and computer games This distracting you Cat asks, what are your hobbies? My hobbies My hobby is watching movie. I love movie Korean movie or Western movie Also, I love Western movie then Korean Korean movies Like do you watch Marvel like Guardians of the Galaxy? Oh, I watched it this time Okay, I'm gonna ask you a few questions about your English Now in Korea you you you're speaking English right now. How how did you learn English? I Learned all my life in South Korea because South Korea is well, where did you learn? Where did you learn? I started in my English kindergarten. My mom sent today Okay, English kindergarten. Isn't that expensive? I Didn't notice in that day. I was so young. I was seven years old So my mom just sent to me English kindergarten and in the English kindergarten. There's some Native English speakers. Yes. Hey, there. All right, and then public school. Did you study English? Yes, elementary school middle school high school and then what about like a private Academy? Oh, I went there. So you know you should be fluent by now You had all this English study for ten ten years more than ten years. Yes Do you like English? Oh, I love it. I like English now you're in my class in my class You know, we just do English Presentations thing like things like that, but outside of my class. Yep. Do you do anything in English? You don't have a chance to Presentation or some adult are you? Reading a book in English. Oh No, are you watching some TV show in English? Oh, yeah, I was in some British Talk show, I love it with it. Does that have Korean subtitles? Of course it is. Okay. Do you have any foreign friends? Foreign friend. Yeah, like I'm foreign friend, but he are not not an English English people He's a Japanese. She's a Japanese She does she do you speak Japanese? me yeah, oh Yep, I can speak Japanese too Which do you speak better Japanese or English? Maybe English is better than Japanese, but it's similar. I'm good at Japanese too Okay, okay. What countries have you traveled to? I travel Japan and Europe in England, Netherlands Not so much. So when you travel you're speaking a lot of English Yes, I did and Do you think in do you think English is important for your future success really the real as real answer? Do you think in English is important for your future success future success for me? Yeah well, I Think English is English used everywhere. So I think It's not used in Korea, it's it's maybe outside of Korea, but inside Korea, it's not used so much Maybe I'll go to work to other countries Okay, so you have potential to work in another country one day and of course you're gonna continue to travel But you don't really study or you don't really care about English unless you're in the classroom It's not it's not a hobby of yours, right? It's just something you're you're doing in the classroom, and you do it very well But when you're outside the classroom, you don't really you don't really care about that. Why not? Why not? Well, I didn't like this study. Yeah, I'm not I'm not a great student So, you know English is not it's a tool, right? Mm-hmm. Not just study, but I'm sure when you're reading information about the Premier League Are you reading that in Korea and summarization or are you going and looking at English looking in English? I following the English Miss people so I watch it all right before the game after the game Okay, so that probably helps Jll yk, how is your English class? I love my English class. Yeah, again, you can you're in my English class. We've met 10 10 days 10 weeks What's good? What's bad? Let me know you're free to talk here Good thing is Robin. Don't touch it. I don't touch our so It's it really have a free we have a free we have to choose it If I if I don't want to song activity, we I didn't I didn't do that. I can choose it The problem with that is a lot of people choose nothing I'm doing nothing. Okay. All right. What's bad? What's something because a lot of the students don't don't know what it's like to be in my class and You know, they just know me from YouTube would know but what what's something that might be bad about me in the class You're free. You're free to say anything I think Remember the group dialogue It is it was really hard to do students. Yeah, of course. Maybe you didn't know. Yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you That every class is different mm-hmm from from the teacher's perspective, you know, I have eight classes and I I in my class I give a group dialogue. So I'll break them up in the beginning. Usually everyone's a stranger So that that's difficult and I'm gonna be honest the reason the main reason of the group group dialogue is Not the dialogue. It's just meet some people. Mm-hmm. I think it's great That's usually why I do that and then, you know, whatever if they do the group dialogue, that's great But every class is different. So actually your class. Yeah Is a very good class Very good class. So there's a lot of very active people In your class And then another class There's very weak people. So there's a lot of There's a lot of groups that never do their dialogue. Oh There's a lot of groups in other class some one class none of the groups did their dialogues So 30 students know no one did the dialogue yet So I yeah, I know I make one rule I put it to eight classes some classes no problem But some classes this is very hard, right? And I understand that so yeah, you're right. You're right. There's That could be difficult For the one of the first activities. So the future I will adjust that Jll yk out of all your country all the countries you've traveled which one is your favorite my favorite my favorite one is Netherlands I I Presentation in your past. I I did a sort of presentation about Netherlands. Yeah, that's my favorite country Why why Netherlands I have a very full scenery like some green meals or a truly and I'm to them is a great city. I love there. So it's a favorite city. I haven't been there yet. Oh You didn't bend it I've traveled a lot. I've been to over 50 countries, but I haven't been to Netherlands yet You should go there. I when I saw your presentation and I was yeah, I should go there Of course, I don't I don't like it when students Have been to a place. I haven't been yet So when you said Netherlands, I was like, ah, I got Sin B as if you have a flight ticket and you can go abroad right now. Where do you want to go? Oh It's a hard question I Want to go to the France Because There also have a great scenery like the Netherlands there. I didn't saw the effort effort So I want to watch it and there's a lot of museum So I have to I want to go to the France. Yeah a good choice. I'm gonna go to France this summer so I Will go to Morocco and then Portugal Spain and then France Do you want to travel with me with you? Yeah, I think we'll have fun because this summer. I will be busy Oh, come on. I've I've traveled with students before Really? Yeah, I've been to Mongolia India Nepal with students because You know, there's two kinds of students when they come to the classroom. They see Robin as Just a teacher Just someone who who gives a grade, right? But sometimes other students they see me as a person and You know, you know in the class I'm the teacher, but when you finish the class We can still keep talking So there's a lot of students. I've been talking to you over 20 years and you know, I've been to weddings and all kinds of events and traveled and You know, what kind of student are you? Give me my grade and go away forever or keep keep in contact Professor, I'm sorry my internet is not really good. I didn't hear you. I said No, it's okay after the class is finished. Are we gonna keep in contact? Okay, I love it. Well, I want to do that and In two years you come back and do another live stream Mm-hmm. So people can see how well your English progressed, right? Let's see J. L. L. Y. K. Do you know who that is? Maybe it's our classmate J. L. L. Y. K. Tell me your name so I can give you the bonus Any classmate asking questions in English here gets a bonus. I think it's June sound Before an interview today He already got 60 points Yeah, it's a plus already That's probably the highest score in all my classes. It's really really he's a good guy, right? Yeah How's how about your other classes at other classes, you know, how are those going? What's your major? Maybe the people know what's your major my major is electronic engineering Okay Your other professors are Korean, right? Yes, it is Korean men. Do you have any female professors? No Korean men conservative man or Are they easygoing how how's the teaching style of Korea? They are really kind and They I think they are all love students They're so kind to us. Okay, but subject is too hard What do you mean too hard to study? It's really hard. You chose it. Didn't you? Oh Actually, I don't want to chose this major But I failed any every other major so I came to here. Well, what is your first choice? My dream was a became a nurse because my mom is nurse I can't you be a nurse that seems like Something you can get into And I don't have a great score. I failed it. What about Piannip? You know university transfer I'm I'm old too. I'm 25. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's not lay. Don't think like that, man You're not old. You're not old. You can do it. You're not old. You're not old. You can No, don't think like that But electronic engineering is really good good majors, so I want to continue to do this Well, I feel bad because that's very different than nursing. Oh it is But I choose a nurse because not for the working hospital I I just chose to either it is really easy to get a job I'm telling you. I May I helped a lot of students. I helped a lot of nurses Go to America. Yeah, and you know if you if you study nursing And you get IELTS Band score seven which you can do And you can go to America and you can make a lot of money there. So I recommend You don't necessarily give up on nursing, you know, it's okay if you graduate when you're 29 30 That's fine because in America, they don't care They just need nurses and I sent a lot of students there I helped a lot of students get to nursing in America They make a lot of money man. They make a lot of money They're gonna make more, you know depending on the which state you go to You can make a lot of money Ej Hyun who heard I said bonus decided It's our class name decided to say what's your favorite song my favorite song Maybe I don't think you know this song. I love K-pop because There is a K-pop group named Stacey Stacey and the song's name is teddy bear. I love it. Yes that teddy bear Okay, you should listen to this a great song teddy bear It's a bear It's like a dog. All right. Hello, Leila Sin be another hard question Love or friend? Love or friend. What does that mean? Love or friend? I have to choose it. I have to choose it Hmm Can't you Romantic romantically does I mean girlfriend or friend? I think My other boy friends or my love. What's your choice your friend or love? Of course my love. Oh, yeah You're out sin be no friend for you. I can't I can abandon every every my friend Learn English with mask girl. Hello cat. Hello assume in your new student. Well, he started He's a freshman This year You said your your age is 25. Where did you go before in a deck I didn't study in the college, but I worked with I worked with my father. All right. So you work with your father And why why don't you just continue working with your father? I Want to go to the college in when I was 22 years old. I have to go to college. I think Though I go to the army and graduate that and now I get into college in 25 years. All right. Well, uh I think you're a very smart guy and you know, I I teach a lot of students. Yeah, and You know, especially at our school a lot of people are there that don't want to be there They're there because that's the only choice Yeah, but I think you you do have some skills and you do have some abilities to do more And to think bigger And uh, like I said today, uh, your classmates Some of them are similar to you, but some of them are very different than you And I don't want you to be influenced in a bad way Uh, okay A more of the lazy side Uh, if if you prove yourself diligent, uh, I think you can do a lot. Yeah, I think you can do more Whatever you want to do. Okay. Thank you Uh, Layla, are you studying electrical engineering yet? He mentioned that Uh, cat asks, what's your favorite k-pop ideal? What does that mean? What's your I think it's idle idle. Oh, okay. So Uh, how much do you love stacy? Stacey I didn't like stacy for a long time In this day, I love stacy because of this this song. I told this teddy bear It is a great song and they are all beautiful What about new jeans new jeans? I love new jeans too, but they Are 50 50 That's another group, don't worry. I know more than you, I guess Okay In the chat, does anyone has anyone heard of 50 50? Let me know What are they from? I worked with uh, I worked with uh, last two weeks ago I worked with a girl who wrote songs for k-pop groups And she wrote a song for the group 50 50 It's a korean group. Yeah. Yeah. Oh I didn't know Do you like uh, do you watch korean soccer? Korean soccer. No, I I don't know what's wrong with korean soccer korean soccer are not Not good. They are they are not better than any other foreign country's football That I don't watch it Not funny Uh Someone asked me love or your friend or your student for you teacher robin. Yeah, well I like my friend. I like my friends. I love my girlfriends. Uh, but my students Do what do you think my feeling is towards my students? I'm asking you You're feeling of students. Yeah, when I see them, what do you think I'm feeling? I think I think you like students of all of us. I yeah, uh, I liked All of you, uh, you're you're in the class with e june, right? e june Or maybe it's the other class I don't know There was a student you're in the morning class or afternoon class We were morning class in glen state. Yeah Uh, when I I'm you know, I don't know I'm there to uh help with the english But I'm very happy when I see a student go up front Give up give a speech, you know, again, I don't care about their english But they're just there up front and they're doing they're they're doing their best I feel very happy uh for that student. I feel very happy. They're doing that Uh in the past when I used to book Yeah, uh, I used to teach pre before kovid, you know, I used to teach out of the english book and That's more boring. Trust me. Uh, everyone Going through a grammar book Oh, I hate grammar. You guys should be you guys should be saying thank you every class because if we did two hours of a grammar book Oh Most of the students would go the whole semester and never say Any english Right, they're just studying grammar for the test and I thought after kovid I'll just get them up front doing that But your class your class is too good. Your class is too good actually I think uh Layla says I think summing is great enough brave to be an interview. Yeah Thank you feel brave. Do you feel nervous now? No, no Laylas, could we know robin? Why did you choose summing among your other students? Uh, the top students, uh, I just asked them. Hey, you know, you uh, my class My class is too easy for you Right I think so because he's not shy in the classroom So, uh, I just want to give him a chance to go to the next level just to get some experience Uh, and laylas, do you study english by yourself or only in the classroom? In these days. Yeah, I only study The classroom and when I prepared the presentation or dialogue I study a lot So then the other days Okay All right, uh Okay, man, let's finish it up. Uh Thanks for coming on. How do you feel about this experience? Oh I think it's been no longer Then this uh, I gotta use zoom and zoom has a 40 minute Oh I didn't know that I don't pay for zoom. So has a 40 minute You know, do you zoom usually? No, I just download this Right now free version of zoom allows you 40 minutes. We have six minutes left. So wrap up type Uh, do you have any quick? I'm gonna give this chance to you. Do you have any questions for me, man? That's not to the question to you. Yeah Ask me anything. This is your chance. I was wondering I was always wondering Can you speak korean? Oh I think you can do it You know people ask me that every day I I spoke The best I spoke korean was 2014 At 2014 Korea Really became automated Automated. Uh, I mean, you know, you go into the restaurant. There's just uh kiosk You go to the The gas station itself serve So during my days There's no chance to speak korean So since about two so I studied I spoke very well And since 2014 Uh, it's just I I don't speak korean anymore. There's no chance and then kovat Yeah, no, there's no chance. So no chance. Uh, also i'm an english teacher In korean around. So as you know, I only speak English to my students Because if I spoke korean through my students even once And they know I understand korean. They're just They're just talking to me for For a long time. Uh, laylis says I believe robin will give you a plus for this interview. That is correct He is an a plus student. You are a plus Are you a plus every class? No, I'm not Only I can do this english J l l y k says I want to hear more. Well j l l y k you can come on Next week and do the interview Okay, our laylis says what do you think about robin as a teacher and a person? Well He's worried about his a plus. So he's not going to give the real It's right All right, man, let's wrap it up. Thanks for coming on and uh, I will see you next week in In class and uh before we go Again, you're doing a great job. I impressed What you're doing, but I I think You should Think bigger You're not old Yeah, you can you can have bigger dreams. I think you can get them. Uh, I think Maybe in your younger time you work a good student and you're getting better Especially english your english is enough to take you to another level and I hope When my class finishes, I hope you don't stop studying english. You try to Keep talking to me or you do something to keep your english going because Yeah, when you work at the company in the future or traveling English is uh, what you need, right? Okay, all right, and uh, so ejhyun it was a good interview Thank you, leila. All right. All right. Thanks a lot everyone for watching and thank you to our guest and uh, Goodbye. Thank you for inviting