In 2009, Hanseo Institute of English Language Studies was founded in Seoul with a registered office at the Gangnam Finance Centre and a founding intake of twenty-eight trainees and a faculty of five. The brief was simple and, at the time, unusual: to train teachers of English the way classical musicians or architects are trained — slowly, with observation, and under the tutelage of practitioners.
We remain, by design, a small school. Each year we admit fewer than four hundred trainees across all five levels. Our Diploma cohort is capped at thirty. Our tutorial groups never exceed twelve. We turn away applicants who would not, in our considered view, benefit from what we teach.