Korean Job Discussion Forums

[stevieg4ever]

...when you look at the conditions and working environments in this country. Its absolutely foul and appalling what people have to go through. Its an altogether collective disgrace the way some people have been treated in Korea judging from the majority of these posts. It�s almost unbelievable.

I think in my time posting on here plus working here I have come across some of the most absurd situations I have ever heard of in a work environment, including:

Not getting paid your salary
Getting paid laid
Constantly harassed over sick days and being ill
Withholding documents such as passports
Being abused constantly by co-teachers and having the education offices do nothing about it
Constantly asked to do things outside of your contract
Cleaning phaeces outside of your classroom
Not being invited in trips and school outings
Being asked to purchase materials to teach from
Working with 'English' teachers that cannot, er hmm, speak English, ditto with supervisors
Being told in numerous ways that you have to accept &*%$ from your colleagues because this is a different country and you do not understand the culture
Being housed in sub-standard accommodation


It is a never ending list and I could go on.

I am sure that if a lot of these unfortunate individuals were treated better then the overall standard of English would increase because from what I can see the morale and confidence of a lot of natives has been shot to pieces by some of the behaviour (like the above) and by working alongside many ignorant racist people we are paired with. How people are supposed to work well and get good results in these kind of environments i'll never know. It's like many of these people have no kind of moral or ethical upbringing whatsoever, not when it comes down to working with non-Korean people anyway because you can bet if native Koreans received the same kind of treatment as frequently as us all hell would errupt.

In the end it is Korea that loses though. Its the kids that suffer because they are caught in the middle of all of this and will never recover the lost years of English education because their native teacher was being treated so badly that they could give a *&^% about their jobs or their kids.

And before people respond with 'yeah but in the US blah blah blah', please remember that this isn't a thread or forum about the United States but about Korea.

All I intend to say is that they will never learn English until their attitude and approach changes and they learn how to respect people who are different.

[crusher_of_heads]

Hey getting paid laid is just part of the Drinking Culture at the massage places

[branchsnapper]

How many of these phaeces have the swines forced you to pick up and take to the baphroom?

[stevieg4ever]

I have to do it at the end of every day......

No, not really but if they could make me do it you could bet I would be doing it every day.

[fromtheuk]

I 'hate' to say it but my numerous rants have now been more than confirmed. Korean co-teachers honestly feel we are their slaves.

My current co-teacher is still in shock that I won't kiss a�$. It seems all of her previous native colleagues were willing slaves.

It's true native teachers are not treated respectfully by their Korean colleagues or by some of their co-teachers.

Some Koreans have awful manners, and I am glad my very existence upsets them at work. They are useless.

[it's full of stars]

Shut up. Baaah!

[captain kirk]

Who else wants to take a run at it swinging a broadaxe? Valhalla!

[Bigfeet]

I wonder ifc this is what it means to be treated like a minority?

[nobbyken]

[PRagic]

If you have an unreasonable co-teacher, look at two things before going ballistic:

1. Are you older or younger
2. Do you have the same academic qualifications

If they trump you on 1 AND 2, you are out of luck. They're probably acting like arses in your eyes because you aren't providing the acceptable level of deference.

You may choose to look at it the other way: they invited you here to teach your language and your culture, so why can't they treat you like you were in your country. But we know that that's not how the human animal works.

So deal with it. Go the 'When in Rome' route, or stick to your guns and go the ethnocentric route. Your call. And, oh yeah, sometimes an ahole is an ahole, and all the culturespeak in the world can't explain it away. Part of living overseas and part of growing older is learning how to differentiate.

[CentralCali]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[PRagic]

Is your degree in education?
Are you older or younger than your co-teacher?

[CentralCali]

[stevieg4ever]

hahaha okay i had something else on my mind at the time