A RECENT survey conducted by Denmark’s Confederation of Danish Industries (DI) shows that 25 percent of companies have made English their primary business language. The top three business areas where English is most commonly used are IT, design and medicine. According to DI’s spokesperson, having English as the operating language makes a company more attractive to many Danes who prefer working in a more international environment, but English is not on its way to replacing Danish as an everyday language for Danish employees.
South Korea regulating foreign teachers’ visas
韩国严格外籍英语教师管理制度
SOUTH Korean lawmakers are set to come up with a new regulation forbidding the issuing of work visas for unqualified English teachers. The move comes days after the arrest of a Canadian suspected pedophile who had taught at a school in South Korea for three months. Currently, there are 16,000 foreigners working in South Korea as English teachers. Over the past five years, more than 800 of them have been caught with forged degrees or without proper visas. Some have even been found to teach under the influence of drugs. The new law is to scrutinize the criminal and medical histories of all education work visa applicants before a visa is granted.
