Achieveing Goals

I hope everyone has had a great spring semester. As an organization, we are going through many changes, and I believe they are for a better KOTESOL. The National leadership is looking at many new ways of providing services to our membership. Over the past six months, we have distributed three years of the KOTESOL Proceedings and are looking at publishing at least one, if not two, issues of the Korea TESOL Journal, and beginning the process to reapply for accreditation.

Our web site should be taking on a new look and will provide more information and services to our membership during the ensuing months. This is a major task taken on by our Webmaster and Technologies Chair. I ask that everyone be patient during this transition period.

We also have an extremely active and energetic Publicity Chair, who is working hard to get the word out about who and what KOTESOL is, and what we as an organization are doing. If you have some ideas for publicity or need help with publicity, contact Joshua Hall. I am sure he will be able to work with you.

The Chapters have been busy also. Jeonju-North Jeolla Chapter held their Regional Conference on May 29. The Busan Chapter is hosting their Summer Conference on June 26, 2010 at the Pusan University of Foreign Studies. The Daejeon-Chungcheong Chapter will be hosting a symposium in early September in Daejeon. Then of course, there is our International Conference on October 16-17 at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, which will also be hosting the PAC 2010 Conference and coordinating with the Asia Youth Forum, which will be meeting in Seoul during the same period. I would ask that everyone plan to attend these events and support your local chapters and the International Conference. There is information on the KOTESOL web site regarding all of these events.

Rob Dickey’s conference team, in coordination with the UCC Center, organized our annual National Conference, which was held in Daegu on May 15, 2010, with over 250 people attending this event. There are other events that will be coming up through the balance of the year for people to attend, participate in, and enjoy. I am impressed with the quality of the events and the hard work put in by our members to give you, the membership, the best quality events and documents.