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| The Star newspaper (Malaysia) |
| 28 August 2007 |
Language lesson for hotel staff
Korean pop stars forego
music for a day to teach
POPULAR Korean pop duo, The CROSS made a brief visit
to Berjaya Hotels & Resorts corporate office
recently to give a private tutoring session for
the hotel's sales and marketing team. The duo, comprising
musician/ composer Lee Si Ha and singer Kim Kyung
Hyun, taught a team of 11 staff members to learn
a few useful phrases in the Korean language.
There were several tongue twisters and not everyone
got the pronunciations right when they tried to
speak the language for the first time. Some drew
laughters when they attempted to pronounce the
lines, without rea-lising their mistakes.
“It’s great to be here as it was Kyung
Hyun’s dream to become a teacher before we
started The CROSS, while my dream was to become
a gangster,” joked Lee as he scribbled notes
on the board for his ‘students’.
The hotel’s marketing communication director
Thang Han Ni said that the purpose of the tutoring
session was for their team to pick up a few key
phrases in Korean language.
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| Popular
teachers: Lee (left) taking questions
from one of the ‘students’,
while Kim looks on. |
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“It will be especially useful when
they meet up with clients from the Korean
market as we expand our presence and market
there,”she said.
The CROSS was in town for their promotional
tour in Malay-sia. Aside from holding a
show-case at Berjaya Times Square Complex,
the duo also participated in the ‘Save
the Marine Turtles’ summer camp at
the Berjaya Tioman Beach, Golf & Spa
Resort on August 14.
The campaign was aimed at pledging support
to preserve a cleaner habitat for the turtles
and putting more effort into saving the
endangered creatures. The CROSS released
20 marine turtles at the dive centre of
the resort and raised funds that was donated
to the Fishery Department of Pahang.
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