{"id":3529,"date":"2016-05-11T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2016-05-12T03:01:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T10:01:40","slug":"korea-blog-podcast-english-fever-or-english-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3529","title":{"rendered":"Korea Blog Podcast: English Fever or English Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/koreafm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/koreaFM-_-logos-_-2nd-draft-002-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do all South Korean students need English in order to be a success? And why are students learning to score well on tests rather than to actually speak English? Seoul-based essayist, broadcaster, &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lareviewofbooks.org\/the-korea-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog<\/a> writer <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Marshall<\/a> joins Korea FM\u2019s Chance Dorland to discuss the negative consequences of\u00a0Korea\u2019s ESL industry he describes as a <em>cancer<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find this podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreafm.net\/2016\/05\/korea-blog-podcast-koreas-english-fever-english-cancer\/#\">here<\/a>, more Korea Blog podcasts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreafm.net\/category\/podcasts\/koreablog\/\">here<\/a>, and my original Korea Blog post on Korean English education\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lareviewofbooks.org\/the-korea-blog\/koreas-english-fever-english-cancer\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/boos\/4534725-korea-s-english-fever-or-cancer\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAFtUNFfFMUUA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do all South Korean students need English in order to be a success? And why are students learning to score well on tests rather than to actually speak English? Seoul-based essayist, broadcaster, &amp; Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog writer Colin Marshall joins Korea FM\u2019s Chance Dorland to discuss the negative consequences of\u00a0Korea\u2019s ESL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korea-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}