Thursday, May 21, 2009
You shouldn't leave Korea the day after your contract.
On second thought I'll save the rant for another time, but I will say that Kelsey from Living Life Frame by Frame gives us another reminder that you shouldn't leave Korea the day after your contract because your school might try some funny business. It's a good idea to give yourself about a week to make sure everything is straightened out and make sure you get all the money you're owed.
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Yeah, this is the kind of stuff that really gives Korea a black eye. Word of mouth is powerful. Too bad noone in Korea realizes that.
I always find it kind of hilarious that Korea is always so concerned about their image, yet does nothing to try and fix this sort of thing. I swear, if they had a more iron-fisted approach to dealing with this sort of conniving by schools, thus making life easier for their foreign employees, the standing of Korea in the eyes of much of the rest of the world would probably get a considerable boost. Right now, I would have a hard time recommending that someone teach in Korea, but if a few things were changed, I would gladly do so.
Kelsey, I'll bet dollars to donuts that some of the Korean employees are also getting jerked around on some financial issues as well. This is an issue that has little to do with Koreans versus foreigners and the threat of Korea's image being tainted probably is of little consequence to the bad actor(s) who are likely pocketing ill-gotten gains like this.
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