Elementary Composition – Night

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English Should Be an Official Language in Korea.

English should be an official language in Korea. These days, it is very common to go abroad to study English. Not only English-major students but others withdraw from universities temporarily and go to English speaking countries even though they do not use English daily in Korea. It is because of getting jobs. Even if a person never speaks or writes in English at work, one must be good at English to get a high salary. For this reason, parents of young children are eager to teach their children English even before they can fully speak Korean. Some children from fortunate homes even leave for English speaking countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia to learn English like their mother tongue. It is because of the fact that a person can have any kinds of respectable jobs if one can use English skills just like natives. To solve this irony, Korean government has to decide to accept English as another official language in Korea, so that people can save lots of money to learn English abroad. Plus, the government can attract millions of people from all over the world to domestic English education market as other English speaking countries do. Korean people and companies will be able to advertise themselves to foreigners more broadly and easily than before, so that they can attract numerous tourists and buyers to Korea. Many Koreans will be able to communicate in English with people from different countries, and many people can have jobs out of Korea. Then naturally the unemployment rate will dramatically decease. For a lot of causes and effects English has to become another official language in Korea.