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[espo]

Have a friend who is coming to the end of his contract and it looks like his director is holding back on re-reimbursing him for the housing deposit that was deducted from his first two paycheck's. Apparently bills that have been payed are being disputed! Firstly I seem to remember reading elsewhere on this site that deducted housing deposits are illegal, secondly any advice on directors trying to screw ya over saying that bills that have been payed at the bank every month by the teacher have been payed by him too...?
Thanks in advance peeps!

[Young FRANKenstein]

[icicle]

[tob55]

This is the problem with most places...The employee can actually take the bills down to the bank and pay them their self and it doesn't require a good speaking ability using Korean...Owners have used this method of paying for so long to pay their other bills at the expense of the employee that it is really sickening...

Here is all that happens:

1. You receive the bills by mail in your postal box if they are sent to your apartment

2. You take the bills with you to your local bank

3. You politely smile and place the bills in the little tray along with the money you owe when you go to the bank cashier (she will probably smile back)

4. You watch the cashier go onto the computer which is hooked up for the entire country to do electronic transfer of money you are paying.

5. The casheir gives you any change you have coming and will put it along with a receipt in the little tray (She will probably smile when she does this)

6. You smile and say thank you or if you know how to say it in Korean all the better.

I got ripped out of money on more than one occasion until I got wise and told the owner of the hagwon I worked at I would pay my own bills...

After that there was never an issue, because I was in control of my money and not the hagwon owner...

[icicle]

[some waygug-in]

the employer is lying. If he had paid them, there would be a credit balance on the following month's bill.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[tob55]

Paying the bills the op is probably talking about is the bring your money to them and they pay them that normally takes place...In the vast majority of places the employer says "bring the bills to us and we'll tell you how much you owe." been there, done that, got screwed

IF the OP had actually paid the bills theirself, then it would not be an issue because as the other posters mentioned he could simply show them the receipts, but with no receipt except the one the owner conventiantly lost, there is no proof the OP can point to...

[bellum99]

I will never understand these pathetic Koreans who screw you out of small money (20,000).

[wylies99]

[Young FRANKenstein]

[garykasparov]

With KT I called the English speaking person and she provided me with an account number customers could transfer money to when they needed to pay their phone bills. I sat down with my banker and had him do it for me. He provided a receipt as well.