I guess Marty is not teaching "how to stay on topic". Or he actually does, and it's why so many of his students have a messed up understanding of English.
The utter lack of self-awareness in this post....
There is likely a selection bias at work here. Those (NETs) that go to Korean classes are likely to be more incentivized and enthusiastic at learning Korean than the NET population as a whole.
I’m on the fence on whether studying Korean is a good use of one’s time. Hard to know.
Or we could not consider it and just wag a finger at them and congratulate ourselves on being better. Which do YOU think is the better approach- self-examination, consideration and putting ourselves in others' shoes OR going "That's whataboutism. Don't bring that up"?
the latter, since it'd save us from you repeating the same tired arguments ad nauseum. you have this weird habit of spamming wordsalad to avoid actually talking about issues you don't want to talk about directly. if you don't want to engage with the point, simply don't engage with it.
That’s a short opinion piece of speculation written by a language teaching company. Huge conflict of interest.
I actually do want to talk about it. The point was "Koreans are frustrated/weird/whatever about learning English."In order to understand why THEY feel that way, I think the best way to do so is to understand why WE do such things and have such feelings.
Are ethnically Korean? Were you exposed to Korean at a young age?