I recently bumped into a couple of stories that are about a year old now, detailing one of those grandiose 5-Year Plans that are reminiscent to Soviet-era master planning.
This time the guilty party is the Ministry of Education in South Korea.
They plan on spending $51 billion of taxpayers ducats to invest in English education programs — a kind of ‘chicken in every pot‘ scheme or ‘robot in every home‘ kind of deal.
So, instead of allowing the residents to keep their money and finance education as they see fit, the technocrats (”Great Deciders”) have decided to throw money at an artificially created quagmire.
Also, in continuing the story from the other day, according to my co-workers it is illegal for someone like myself to teach pro bono, even at an orphanage. Because it is not part of the E-2 visa.
Draconian labor laws? Free-market in labor? Maybe this is why foreign businesses have been shunning the peninsula…