A few weeks ago, I was called into the teachers' office. The vice principal got a call from EBS, a TV station in Seoul. They were doing a show on native teachers who do morning broadcasts at their schools. They wanted my co-teacher and me to come up to Seoul to record a show on Saturday.
They also said that afterward, they would send a crew down to Daegu to film me doing one of my broadcasts.
My co-teacher and I had a little picture and write-up in a local newspaper when we first started the broadcasts, which must have been how they found me. I was surprised about the newspaper article, and surprised about the call from EBS, too. It's not like English broadcasts are a novelty among schools with native teachers.
Anyway, this call was on a Tuesday I think. I was told they would send some official documents with more details the next day. I was pretty excited about it, it seemed like a cool experience, plus I could brag that I'd been on TV. Oh, the possibilities.
The documents didn't come the next day, or the next. Nothing came, not even a phone call to cancel. The weekend came and went, and that was that. It just goes to show what sort of professionalism you can expect in Korea sometimes.
I wasn't really that upset. I had no idea what I would have to say about doing weekly morning broadcasts. Until recently, all my broadcasts were super boring anyway.
On Tuesday of this week, my co-teacher told me that EBS had called her the night before, asking us to come up to Seoul again. I wasn't really surprised that they would simply let things go completely cold, and then call us again and expect us to jump at the happy opportunity. Maybe I've been here too long.
I asked if she'd yelled at them for their shenanigans, and my co-teacher said she had, which is pretty surprising considering she's one of the sweetest people I've ever met. I agreed to go again and was told we'd get the documents and info the next day.
The next day was yesterday. Today was Thursday. Still no information, no calls, no documents. Will EBS really make an ass of themselves and leave us hanging again? We'll see tomorrow.
I'll just say that I won't be surprised if they drop the ball again.
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