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[kiwiluvesyew]

Kid's Club Teen's Club Hagwon, in Changwon, Palyongdong South Korea, also known as MJ's Moving Castle, is a horrible Hagwon to work for any foreign teacher. They make you work forced overtime on Saturdays with no pay, each Saturday at least six hours of forced overtime with no pay. If you ask them to stick to the contract, they get very upset and see to it that your life is more of a living hell than normal. They wipe their ass with the contract.

They will make you sit through meetings that fit to their schedule, and not yours (this means hours after you have left school, you come back for a meeting), that have no point - and these last for hours every week.

If you have no teaching experience in Asia, then the school management will continue to sit in on your classes at least three times per week, lasting for as long as many months you work there. You will never get a good review. Previous experience in your home country does not matter at all at Changwon Kids Club Teen Club, if you haven't taught in Asia then be prepared for constant unpaid meetings that have no point. Keep track of your bills, because they will make you pay for old bills you already paid months later, and often have you paying other people's apartments (and all bills are in 100% Korean).

They stick to the contract when it benefits them, but do not expect anything you sign to be upheld whatsoever when you land. Your teaching schedule will change every week - sometimes by the hour. Unless you actually leave the property on your "breaks" at Palyongdong MJ's Moving Castle, you will be subject to working through your lunch or class breaks. This is the best part: They will blame you for their kid's lack of understanding from the second you get there.

This is a business, and Kids Club Teen Club is not a school. They put kids of all levels into one class, and expect you to make them all proficient learners or it is your fault. There is no discipline for the kids at all from the management because they are schmoozing the parents. If a parent calls because you made their kid apologize in class, you will have to sit in a meeting where they tell you you're a bad teacher.

None of your kids will understand anything you say, but Changwon KidsClub TeenClub will blame you for the learning deficiencies of kids who have serious, often very violent, behavior problems. You are expected to grade a lot of work on your time at this Hagwon Work Palace. Their lack of communication is mind blowing, and you will know of any updates pertaining to you, the school, or anything, five minutes +after+ the event has begun. Worse yet, you work with a slew of Yes-Men, so when you want to stick to the contract you are the only one in the entire school who is saying anything, and your foreign co-workers not saying anything hurts you BIG TIME.

The Korean teachers, who are over-worked even more and paid less, resent you and make it noticeable. The building looks nice, but that is the ONLY thing great about this place.

In summary, they do not stick to anything in the contract, they make you sit through pointless meetings and Saturday work (forced overtime), and charge you for various bills that aren't even yours and they get very upset if you correct them. Every Korean teacher at MJ's Moving Castle works on Saturday, and the higher ups (who most often are your co-teachers) work on Sundays, so you won't get a shoulder to cry on when you don't want to come in for four hours on Saturday.

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[bobranger]

wow.. nice rant

[Xuanzang]

Avoid Changwon anything. Check.

[BigBuds]

[wylies99]

Thanks for the warning, OP.

[just because]

I have personally known 3 people to have worked there (however not any more) and they didn't have any major complaints at all.....

maybe management changed....

[wayfarer]

How many foreign teachers are employed there? If I was one of the poor fools working in that place I'd form some kind of alliance with the other teachers and have us all just stop showing up on Saturdays or doing anything outside the contract. You could bring the school to its knees if you all just didn't go to work on some unexpected Monday.

If that failed, I'd just spit in the face of the pig who owns it and fly the *beep* out of Korea.

Best thing would be if they all left at the same time, letting the school collapse.