Teaching With Chopsticks: TEFL From The Frontline

How hard could it be?

Looking to ‘do something totally random and out of character’, recent graduate Jonathan Last took his lack of classroom experience and wariness about children onto a plane heading for Sanbon, South Korea and into a job teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL).

His year turned out to be a fascinating, honest insight into a diverse worldwide industry of countless personalities and cultures. His sometimes fun, sometimes painful, frequently hilarious journey required him to think on his feet and learn fast – not least about himself.