Hyunsu Hwang
Hyunsu Hwang teaches 10th graders as a high school English teacher in South Korea. He is the international director of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union (KTU, or Jeongyojo), and a member of Education International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Committee.
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Democracy 26 July 2024 A Long Journey to “Cham Education” and Democracy
Hyunsu Hwang
“A teacher who does not accept a bribe from parents, a teacher who publishes a class yearbook or a class newspaper with students, a teacher who works hard to teach, a teacher who promotes students’ autonomy and creativity, a teacher who speaks up for other teachers, and a teacher who...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 April 2020 “COVID-19 and Education in South Korea”, by Hyunsu Hwang.
Hyunsu Hwang
COVID-19 is a world-wide fear and a tremendous threat in every area of our lives. It affects everyone in the world. The scenes being captured look very familiar to us in a sense. They look like scenes from movies, but sadly this is a real and unprecedented situation in human...
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Trade union rights are human rights 15 December 2018 #UDHR70 - “Trade Union Rights are Human Rights: South Korean Teachers Deprived of Union Representation”, by Hyunsu Hwang
Hyunsu Hwang
On December 10, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said in his speech to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Human Rights Day: "Among countries that went through colonial rule, dictatorship, and war, there are few countries that have the level of South Korean human rights." He added, “there is still a...
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Leading the profession 13 March 2018 #WDR2018 Reality Check #18: “Behind the Scores; Myths on Korean education” by Hyunsu Hwang
Hyunsu Hwang
The “Forward” of the 2018 World Development Report (WDR) by the World Bank Group’s president, Jim Yong Kim, shocked me. It starts: “Education and learning raise aspirations, set values, and ultimately enrich lives. The country where I was born, the Republic of Korea, is a good example of how education...
#WDR2018 Reality Check #18: “Behind the Scores; Myths on Korean education” by Hyunsu Hwang