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[tbag81]

I really don't understand what the problem is with the new visa requirements. It sounds like a lot of you just don't like Koreans and if that's the case why are you even here?
The new requirements, may be a pain to get but they are totally legitimate. Anyone applying for a teaching job or any other job working with children, should have a CRC done and anyone who will be receiving medical insurance should have health evaluations completed before starting a job. I can understand that people feel that an HIV test is not necessary but as already discussed in this thread, several countries require them, and I can also understand not agreeing with a drug test, because I don't necessarily agree with this one either, but I can understand the want for one. It costs Korean schools, universities and hagwons quite a bit of money to employ foreigners. They pay for our airfare, housing, half our medical insurance and half of our pension on top of our salary and bonus, so why not want to make sure that their new teacher not be a drug addict, let alone take the chance on getting a teacher, who like many others, gets deported or jailed for possession of narcotics.
Yes, getting a visa can be a long, tedious process but it is not just us waiting. What about the hagwon owner who is losing business because he has no foreign teacher because they got deported for possession and has to wait on finding a new teacher?
The new requirements are not being put in place to screw us over, they are being put in place to protect the schools and businesses. So what if you have been working here for 5 years and didn't have to do it before, you didn't have to do it because it wasn't required then. Just because you have been here for awhile doesn't mean that Korea owes you something.
Maybe by changing the requirements for an E-2 visa will help to weed out the people who are lazy and aren't coming here to teach, but instead coming to party or as someone said earlier, to leapfrog across south east asia.
If you all don't like it here so much why don't you go home instead of spending year after year here and countless hours on daveeslcafe complaining about it.
If you can't pass these requirements, you shouldn't be teaching in the first place.

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[tbag81]

My intention wasn't to sterotype or attack anyone in particular, but I am sick and tired of hearing and reading about everyones negative experiences, the majority of this thread has been, like many others, one huge complaint. I simply feel that if you don't like the visa requirements and can't pass them you shouldn't be here.
And I don't have a problem with people coming to Korea for a year, gaining work and life experience, saving the money they earn, and then spending it to travel, but I think that we all need to remember that we have been hired to teach and that teaching is a job that one should take seriously. I have a problem with people who don't take their job seriously. Now this is just my opinion, but I feel that the people who have been here for years that are just willing to throw away their jobs because the Visa process is more difficult than it used to be really don't care about their jobs and I feel that someone who doesn't care about their job should not be, of all things, a teacher.
I am sorry if anyone feels that I am stereotyping or attacking, it wasn't my intention.

[traxxe]

Tbag you are a rip-roaring idiot. I am impressed that you managed to rub together your last two brain cells just hard enough to fire off that post. I've had bowel movements that generated more respectable contents than your post.

Peope here are upset for a few reasons:

1) This whole series of sudden changes is a knee-jerk reaction to a child molester. This child molester would have not been hindered in his actions by any of the actions the government is planning on executing.

2) These changes are dramatic and have been issued at a pace that is frightening. Most change should be gradual and coherently thought out before being implimented. This effects a country and its education system. It is not some small insignificant endeavor hoping to correct a minor blemish.

3) These changes are making it appear as if we the teachers are the flaw in the system. It is putting blame on a foreign population that is not responsible for the failure of this frequently corrupt and dehumanizing education system. It is an abhorrent attempt at denial of Korean liability that is humiliating in the absurd way we the foreigners are being blamed.

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Just because some foreigners in Gangnam got caught with marijuanna does not make us all pot smoking and drug abusing idiots.

Just because a terrible rapist taught here does not make us all worthless child abusers.

Just because Korean women and men come down with a sexually transmitted disease does not mean it was brought here by foreigners and that we are all thus suspect for such actions and behavior.

What about these very same hagwon owners who violate their own contracts, lie to parents, and manipulate otherwise kind and generous teachers? Where is our portection to ensure that the people that employ us are mentally fit, not addicted to drugs (Soju?), have a clean criminal history, and are free of diseases?

How long do you think these circumstances would hold water if every Korean hagwon owner, teacher, and principle were subjected to the same unjust accusations and magnifying glass that we are?

Where are the changes that solve the root of the problem and not the branches?

Where is the reasonable implimentation of changes at a gradual pace?

Where is the accountability for unethical business practices?

Be careful of the Kool Aid you are drinking tbag.

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