Last year at my elementary school I found a 2,000,000KRW hand-held learning program thing for English. Never opened. I'm assuming they bought it because they had budget to blow, but c'mon. It was something only one student could use at a time, and would have no practical application in class. Pissing money away.
There were also some English materials I found that were developed by the Boseong country, before they started buying official textbooks. One of the lesson plans was this monster game where the monsters had different names, heights, weights, backgrounds, hobbies, and countries of origin.