Korea: Asians May Get Teaching Visas

[Francis Hult]

The Korea Times

 

Asians May Get Teaching Visas

 

President-elect Lee Myung-bak's power transition team is considering issuing English teaching visa to Asians whose countries have English as an official language.

The team's officials acknowledged a flaw in the current visa regulation that issues English teaching, or E-2 visas according to nationality. Authorities allow English teaching visas only to native-English speakers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland.

``Not all native English speakers can teach English well. So we should give visas only to qualified and verified English teachers,'' Jung Dong-ki, the team's legal affairs head told The Korea Times. ``We will carefully consider revising the regulation because visa issuance should be based on qualification rather than nationality.''

 

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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/01/113_17682.html

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