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[spliff]

I renewed my contract. Last years contract says I get a RT ticket or the equivalent money (by most direct route) to an airport closest to my home. How does GEPIK/MY school come up w/ this equivalent amount figure? is there a unified procedure for this at GEPIK or is it up to each school. Anyone have experience w/ this?

[teachergirltoo]

Last year my co-worker took the "equivalent" option. The school admin office went on the internet to Korean Air and took the cheapest price they could find and used that as their reference. She insisted though that they do a search for the EXACT date that she would have to fly because that is what they would have to pay if she really was going to fly.

[theatrelily]

I think it'll vary according to your school administration.

Last year when I renewed, I got a price quote and itinerary from my travel agent and gave a copy of them to my co-teacher.

She then contacted their own travel agent and got a similar quote.

The school put the money for the ticket into my account and I bought it myself.

Having said that, what I did may not be standard; I was actually just briefly stopping in Toronto each way on my way to my sister's wedding in Trinidad, and the school would not give me any money towards the ticket if I did not have a Canadian destination on the way.

(It would have been a lot fast to bypass Canada and fly out of Houston, New York or Miami....but I needed the school's contribution to cover costs..)

I would start by getting the quote and itinerary for your flights, hand it in to the school and work from there.

[alice123]

I am finished with my one year contract with gepik at the end of this month. Does that mean, even if I decide to stay in Korea, they have to give me the flight money, or will I lose it. If I change schools, but stay with gepik, do I get the roundtrip money? Or I have to stay at my current school to get the roundtrip money?

[R. S. Refugee]

[R. S. Refugee]

[spliff]

How do they figure they don't owe you it? If you're leaving for good they owe you one way tic home. If ur renewing, they owe you a RT tic or it's worth. Black and white in the contract. Winese is on vacation until Aug 8.

[R. S. Refugee]

[spliff]

Kinda your fault for signing a contract that was less than a year. Actually, they should have gave you a one year contract to sign. I've never heard of a PS school contract for less than a year. If they didn't know they would get funding or not that's their problem. Guess you should have said one year or nothing at the get go. You could have easily just found another school, no?

[ttompatz]

[alice123]

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Your contract (assuming you signed a standard GEPIK contract) says they will pay your one-way flight home PROVIDED you LEAVE Korea within 10 days of the completion of your contract.

If you don't leave then you don't get the money.

If you leave and return you DO get the money for the flight home. Your new school should front the ticket for the way back.

.[/quote] Thanks for the answer. But if I change schools and still stay with GEPIK, and also stay in the country, will GEPIK give me the roundtrip money? Or we only get the roundtrip money for staying with the same school? I could ask Wenise, but I'm scared to. I'm just really upset, because they should at least pay us the one way ticket equivalent since we worked a year for it. I feel like I'm being ripped off, because I don't want to fly home.

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