English is used as the current language for global communication. This manual emphasises the importance and relevance of the reciprocity of cultural skeins within the teaching process. A text out of context can be used as a pretext for any number of unrelated purposes. Similarly, to best learn another language both teacher and student need to negotiate the process within the cradle of culture. In short, teaching and learning a language that is respectively culturally encased in hundreds of years of history without paying attention to the cultural setting is to miss out celebrating the thrill of cultural expression with someone else from the global village.

Dr Duncan has spent some 20 years in teaching English as a Second Language to foreigners and South Korean expats included senior business executives, bankers, insurance managers and university students. He maintains close contacts with his adult graduates and executives. In 2010, he regretfully turned down a professorship at a Korean University.