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[stevieg4ever]

Hi all

I just thought I would put my 2 cents / penies in regarding EPIK. I came over on the summer 2007 programme. I have been in my position 4.5 months thus far.

I was in Korea in 2004 and got ripped off by a hagwon that left me feeling very bitter and a financial mess. After meeting a lot of good Korean people back home in London and through studying Korean I decided to give returning another shot. So I chose EPIK. Had the interview in London and came out here in August.

They really took good care of us on arrival at Incheon and during the training in Daejon. The food, accommodation, entertainment, trips and lectures couldn�t have been better.

My placement is good I have to say. I am in a rural area, have 2 schools but, on the negative, had a sack of shite co-teacher whose only 2 words of English were �busy� and �no�. Well the education office promptly removed her when I registered my complaint and red her the riot act. Their English isn�t the best but they will listen and are always concerned about me. They didnt mess around with the co-teacher business either.

In the positive corner, I�ve been paid on time without fail every month. My apartment is superb, all the equipment (tv, gas range, fridge, microwave etc) was brand new out of the box and I receive all the help I require when i ask for it. Also the holidays are extremely generous (thus far anyway).

You can do much worse than EPIK, in Korea, in my humble estimation. It may not be perfect but they do care and are intent on both providing English teachers with good schools and also restoring a healthy name to English education in Korea (who envies that task??).

Thanks for reading

[hugo_danner]

I'm in the boonies as well. My main complaints are the fact I live 10 miles from where I work, but my apartment is nice. And the idiot book keeper at the main school I work at always forgets to pay me (and pay my health insurance). He's a totally incompetant jackass. I have to remind him to do these things so he doesn't forget (every month). That aside, like you said you could do worse than EPIK in Korea.

[boyne11]

[stevieg4ever]

have you told your provincial office of education? what does your co-teacher have to say on the matter? This really shoudlnt happen.