Why don't South Koreans speak English?

Korean is a very good language, and we’ve used it for a long time, so we don’t need to talk in english in daily lives. Of course, English is a international mother tongue and we learn in it school as our second language. read more

The difficulties that Koreans continue to exhibit with learning any foreign language can be traced to an underlying ideology of language (see Joseph Sung-Yul Park’s 2009 book: The Local Construction of a Global Language: Ideologies of English in South Korea), which is strongly tied to ethnicity. read more

I've met many Korean students and I noticed that their English proficiency is not that good. But I also heard that South Korea has one of the best English programs in their curriculum throughout Asia and that the governments spends a large amount of money for this. read more