NOTES FROM 9TAILEDVIXEN’S 1ST WEEK OF DECEMBER 2024:
1. I’ve began a TEFL course this week as a part of bettering my instructing expertise since I train English. And I need to say that I agree with my college students – grammar (whether or not you are studying it or doing revision on it) is boring AF. Ah nicely, no less than I acquired by nouns and am midway by verbs haha!
2. One among my Aerial Yoga lecturers famous that I’ve improved to the purpose the place I’m ending my Aerial flows most of the time. HURRAY!
THIS WEEK IN KOREAN WOMEN’S NEWS:
(a) ‘We needed to cease this’: Girl who grabbed South Korean soldier’s gun speaks to BBC
A chaotic night time in South Korea produced scenes most thought had been consigned to the nation’s historical past. One particularly has caught the eye of many: a lady confronting troopers who had been despatched to dam lawmakers from getting into the Nationwide Meeting.
Footage of Ahn Gwi-ryeong, 35, a spokesperson for the opposition Democratic Celebration, grabbing the weapon of a soldier through the commotion has been shared broadly on-line. “I didn’t suppose… I simply knew we needed to cease this,” she instructed the BBC Korean Service.
https://www.bbc.com/information/articles/ckg1m423vvmo
(b) Does Korea nonetheless want ladies’s universities?
The escalating rigidity between Dongduk Ladies’s College college students and its administration relating to a attainable transition to a coeducational faculty is sparking a debate over whether or not Korea nonetheless wants greater academic establishments for ladies.
Earlier final month, Dongduk Ladies’s College in northern Seoul held a gathering to ascertain a college growth plan on the headquarters stage, throughout which a transition to a coed faculty was instructed, citing the lower within the nation’s school-age inhabitants.
“The decline within the school-age inhabitants is more likely to make it tough to recruit new college students sooner or later. The transition to coeducation could be another,” the varsity official stated.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/12/113_386285.html