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[hillann]

I've been offered to teach with Chilgok Wonderland school in Buk-gu Daegu. Does anyone know about this school or its reputation. I looked for a thread but couldn't find one...
thanks!

[garykasparov]

[ttompatz]

[expat2001]

Avoid all wonderlands
A few months ago , I read ; in the news paper , that Wonderland is slowly going out of buiness cause they are having so much trouble in finding teachers. The reason they are having so much trouble finding teachers is cause they are the worse of the worse

Wonderland has a bad habit of making the teachers lie about the working condiitons to new potential teachers.
Years ago ,I had a friend working at Wonderland , and as she was finishing her contract , the owner told her she couldnt leave ( he threated to keep her bonus and plane ticket) until she found a replacement. My friend knew that no one would take the job ,once they knew what the working condiitons were like ,so she had to lie

[Matilda]

Yes, I lived in Chilgok last year - it is about 1/2 hour from downtown Daegu by bus. A really nice, quieter, modern suburb north of Daegu.

As for Wonderland, I recall 4 teachers leaving from there before their contracts finished. I do remember 1 kiwi girl who finished her contract. The director also owns Reading Town (another hagwon) just upstairs from there, so I heard she was pretty disorganised and got some staff to work in both hagwons. I also recall 1 (crazy) girl having to live with the director until her own accomodation was sorted out. NOT the start you want!!

That's about all I can recall of Wonderland in Chilgok from 2007 - hope it helps

[Yu_Bum_suk]

As I've said before, suppose there was an airliner taking off with 100 seats and you knew that:

10 seats were going to fall out of the plane mid-flight
10 passengers would get food poisoning
10 would be seated next to violent alcoholics
10 would get vomited on
10 would be next to screaming babies
10 would be next to Christian evangelists who couldn't shut up
10 would be seated next to morbidly obese people
10 would get mistakenly arrested by the air marshal
10 would have seatbelts that refused to release them upon arrival
and 10 would arrive safely at their destination after a mildly unpleasant ride.

Would you get on that flight? If not, you'd be an utter idiot to try your luck with a Wonderland. This chain has beat out some very, very stiff competition to earn it's place as the hagwon chain with the worst reputation in Korea.

[Whistleblower]

So hillann have you taken the job with Wonderland?

[CentralCali]

[Jimskins]

Take all the criticism of Wonderland with a pinch of salt, every branch is different. Yes, the majority may be dodgy but most say that the majority of Hogwan's are dodgy with only a handful of sound chains.

My ex-girlfriend and a couple of mates worked at that Wonderland in 2005-6ish and they said it was ok, there were the usual Hogwan gripes but nothing severe. It may have changed a lot since then though, the best thing to do is try and speak to one of the teachers there and get there e-mail address -so they can tell you what they really think . I worked at Siji Wonderland in Daegu from 2005-6 and had a good time, the boss went out of his way to help us and we had good co-teachers, were always paid on time, air-ticket refunded in the first month, decent apartment etc. Perhaps it's the only one like this and I got lucky. Maybe

[Mi Yum mi]

I had friends who worked there a few years ago. From what they say this is a good Wonderland.

It's still a Wonderland though.

[Roch]

[Roch]

[Roch]

[forster_0]

Wonderland Pochon (middle of nowhere, north of Seoul) has payed me late over 5 times, 5 Korean coworkers quit after never receiving paychecks, had me working at another hagwon next door, will not pay me severance unless I find a way to force them (even then...maybe), has me work with kids with mental problems, had me teach with no text books for months, and the list goes on.