(Korean) English Notebooks

Despite thousands of native English speakers working as teachers in South Korea, notebook and pencil case manufacturers continue to go it alone when it comes to product slogans. In a land obsessed with learning English, it's strange that education-related products are covered in bizarre, nonsensical, Mad Lib-style strings of words. Here are some I recently photographed in a Korean department store.

Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo of one of my favorites. One of the students in my last class had a small notebook with a photo of the Eiffel Tower on the cover. The caption? HAPPY VIRUS 100% Nobody love you like I do. Not kidding.

If that doesn't make you want to learn English. . .

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