Front Enterance of my Hagwon

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Originally uploaded by Eleruen.

The double doors are the front enterance to the academy. The director keeps these doors flung wide open, even in the depths of winter when day temperature is -5 (night around -15)and the ground has several inches of snow. On the blue background in white letters it says "Ch'eong T'ap Hagwon", the name of my academy. In the yellow writing it says 'foreign language', and either 'casual work, or 'last hour of the day', as the word has two meanings. I am not sure which one it is as they are both relevent: the academy stays open until 11.45, and academy teaching is casual labour for the Koreans (or so Korean friends tell me). Below is an image of a happy middle-aged foreign teacher surrounded by enthusiastic-looking foreign students; inappropriate seeing as :

a)the students are Korean
b)both teachers and students are far from happy.