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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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 Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: Help get the word out: Employment conditions |
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Do you have a few minutes to spare a few days a month? It would be great if everyone would send an e-mail to a few of the universities or hakwons offering below par employment conditions.
Be polite, but let them know why you find their offer insulting. Pay, contact hours, housing, vacation, extra duties...whatever...let them know. Maybe if they start getting as many or more critical e-mails as they do applicants, they'll start getting the message.
Of course most of these places will get applications from noobs or the desperate. We can't stop people from taking substandard jobs. However, we can remind these places that the people who take their jobs probably aren't the brightest bulbs on the string. The general message should be, 'Stop using foreigners!' and 'Try to get better teachers for your students!'
Oh, and I like to include a catchy subject line: 'Highly motivated teacher!' or 'I want to work for you!'. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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why not apply for the jobs and when you are offered the job explain in your rejection letter that you found the conditions to be unacceptable.
this will hurt them more as they have then lost the applicant they wanted due to their poor offer. |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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That's really taking it up a notch. Most of the places, however lame, require a load of documents and L.O.R.s to get the ball rolling.
Go for it, though, if you have the time and inclination. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps, something should be suggested to the government?
E-1 Status (Professors), Visa Issuance Procedure
from the website of the Immigration Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea
http://www.moj.go.kr/HP/ENG/eng_03/eng_306030.jsp
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| *In the case of a national or a public University, a foreigner is not permitted to be a full-time professor. |
Two Thousand Two Hundred Sixty-eight Non-tenure Track Professors on the Edge
Donga.com (October 18, 2006)
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2006101884668
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Regular professors work about 6 - 9 hours a week,....
There are 2,268 non-tenure track professors working in 104 universities, including the ones appointed in 2003. The average teaching time is 10.9 hours a week, which is relatively more than regular professors, but they are paid only 79.3 percent on average compared to regular professors. However, this result is calculated based on basic pay, and it is known to be only half if considering an actual pay including allowances.... Only 64.4 percent of the universities provide their non-tenure track professors with research funds, and 58.7 percent allow them to attend faculty meetings. |
College Professor (Humanities): Annual Average Wage: 64,770,000 won
http://know.work.go.kr/know/sub4/result_0.asp?search_code=04111&search_name=인문계열교수
Foreign scholars merit equal status
The foreign professor -- colleague or hired hand?
John B. Kotch, JoongAng Ilbo (June 14, 2002)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200206/14/200206142349223599900090109011.html
New URL: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=1904927
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| By contrast, permanent foreign professors number only a handful compared to the legions of Korean professors at foreign universities, but they do most of the heavy lifting in terms of course loads, devoting themselves almost exclusively to teaching. Nevertheless, they tend to be treated as hired hands, without academic standing, and lacking the possibility of career advancement or tenure. They must submit to yearly contracts (compensated at a rate only 60 percent of their Korean peers) while walled off from the permanent Korean faculty who benefit from travel, research funding, sabbaticals, etc. Moreover, when hundreds of Korean scholars enjoy such perks at American and other foreign universities, something is obviously amiss.... |
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