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[traxxe]

This is probably more addressed to Hagwon owners or people with their ears in the recruiting side of things. (IE: Recruiters, head teachers)

It has been a little over two weeks since the new visa regulations have been implimented. This is probably not enough time to guage the effects of the new regs.

I'm curious though if there is a sense of hesitancy once a recruit learns of the loopholes? Has there been less immediate desire to come to the country? Do you have less recruits lined up than in previous winters?

Obviously the turn around time for the recruiting process has increased as there will be more waiting involved to go through the process. Have the number of interested parties who actually started the process begun to dwindle though? Or is it about the same? Are your quota numbers being influenced by the regs and if so, how much do you anticipate a decline in the available teachers? Are you going to have to adjust the quota/fee for recruitingment to by 10 percent? 50? 80?

That would give us, the teachers... a good idea of how to adjust our expectactions in the market place with the given changes

My contract is up at the end of Feburary and I'm pretty sure unless I get certain things I'm out. Like at least a month of vacation Under 22 contact hours. Etc.

[maddog]

I'm not a recruiter or a hagwon owner, nor do I have the ear of such people, but I'll throw in my 2c anyway.

I'm sure the biggest problem will be that people will have to go to the Korean Embassy in their country for an interview.

For starters, it's down-right inconvient. My home-town is 450 miles from London. If I had any reservations about coming to Korea, that'd be enough to put me off.

Secondly, in conjuction with the HIV/hep test, the idea of going to your LOCAL embassy, just to be asked a bunch of random idiotic questions by some retard who barely speaks English is just too much. It'll give people their first indication of just how mindlessly beauraucratic this place is.

MD

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