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Hagwons in Bundang, Suji

 
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Terri Payk



Joined: 14 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:42 am    Post subject: Hagwons in Bundang, Suji Reply with quote

Hi! I am involved with a group that is putting on a four hour Saturday seminar for English teachers in the Bundang and Suji area. It's going to be a great info session. Do you know where I could find a list of hagwons in the Bundang and Suji area?

Thanks!
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could try the yellow pages.

www.yellowpages.co.kr/

Will there be any drinking at this seminar?? Wink
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JackSarang



Joined: 28 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you live in Bundang or Suji you can pick up any of the free advertising papers on the side of the street. The majority of the area hogwans advertise in those papers regularly.

Whats the seminar about? The Bundang/Suji area or Teaching?
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Eunoia



Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Location: In a seedy karakoe bar by the banks of the mighty Bosphorus

PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The other week my hagwon received a letter from the Seongnam Si Board of Education (or whatever they call it), telling us that ALL of the teachers and directors in Seongnam (which includes Bundang, not sure about Suji) were required - BY LAW - to attend some kind of seminar that was to be held this coming Saturday (Sept. 20). Penalty for not attending was a modest fine, I think only about 5,000 Won.

Now, I've been in Korea for a few years, and have never heard of anything like this before. As it turns out, however, the seminar was cancelled because (1) nobody at the Seongnam Boad of Education could tell my boss what the seminar was supposed to be about (i.e., they had no idea what was supposed to happen there), and (2) they couldn't find anyone who spoke English to present the seminar.

Is this the same "seminar" to which you are referring? What is the deal with it, anyway? What are we supposed to do for four hours on a Saturday Exclamation ? Are we going to be paid for our time (ha ha, dream on)?

To be honest, unless I can get some further clarification as to what exactly we're supposed to do at this seminar, I'd personally rather pay the fine than give up my Saturday morning (and by extension, my Friday night). Days off are a valuable commodity here, and unless you have something REALLY special and worthwhile planned, I think I'll pass.
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Terri Payk



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:21 pm    Post subject: Teacher's Seminar Reply with quote

eamo, JackSarang, Eunoia

eamo, Thank you for your suggestion about the yellow pages. I'll look into that. The seminar will be for four hours in the late afternoon/early evening on Decemeber 6th. There will be a main speaker and then several 45-60 minute workshops to choose from, depending on your area of interest - teaching young children, adults, adding creativity to your lessons, great places to visit in Korea (for newcomers who haven't yet had time to search out the great sites in the country), etc.

Terri Payk
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Terri Payk



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:27 pm    Post subject: Teacher's Conference Reply with quote

Eunoia,

The seminar I'm talking about is not the one you mentioned. No one is hogging-tying anyone to come to it! No penalty fees for absentees. Very Happy

About your question "Will we payed for our time spent there? ha ha" -
as any dedicated teacher, I spend hours thinking about and looking for better ways to teach English in my class.

Like you and the rest of teachers in Korea, I appreciate time off, but as I look at it, if four hours on a Saturday afternoon save me hours later of researching, reading, on my own time anyway, etc. that, in my opinion, is time well spent.

Were you a teacher before you came to Korea?

Terri P.S. I posted a reply to eamo/JackSarang about particulars on the seminar itself.
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Eunoia



Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Location: In a seedy karakoe bar by the banks of the mighty Bosphorus

PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Teacher's Conference Reply with quote

Terri Payk wrote:
Eunoia,

About your question "Will we payed for our time spent there? ha ha" -
as any dedicated teacher, I spend hours thinking about and looking for better ways to teach English in my class.

Like you and the rest of teachers in Korea, I appreciate time off, but as I look at it, if four hours on a Saturday afternoon save me hours later of researching, reading, on my own time anyway, etc. that, in my opinion, is time well spent.

Were you a teacher before you came to Korea?



If I sounded bitter and snotty in that last post, I apologize - it just caught me at a bad time (been wading through a lot of negativity lately). I do have a B.Ed, and have been doing the job here for just over 3 years now. No, I don't think means that I know everything about teaching, and now that you've given more info, this seminar sounds like it actually may be interesting; however, having just spent a weekend at a company-sponsored workshop/seminar/retreat, I'm not so sure I'm ready for another one just yet. Wink

My main concern was with this *other* seminar, with which I take issue purely for the fact that it is supposedly mandatory and that absenteeism would be punishable Exclamation by fines, and that there was no information available regarding what it was supposed to be about in the first place.
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