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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004
PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:31 pm    Post subject: In case you think it's 'Only the waegook who...' Reply with quote
We had a new (Korean) teacher come to our school this week who's replacing one who's getting promoted. Now, I don't think this promotion was a sudden or unexpected thing and I'm sure the school had adequate time to prepare, but...

They have her sleeping up in the dormatory with the girls. Housing is usually something my school works into the temp. teachers' contracts, but that isn't exactly 'housing'. Oh well, she doesn't have to worry about the lack of cooking facilities as she can eat our school cafeteria slop three times a day just like the students.

Everyone else has their own computer at their desk provided by the school but she has to bring in her laptop. The shelf space on her desk is all full of other teachers' books. Yesterday I took the liberty of moving a bunch of the other teachers' shit off her desk and putting it somewhere else so she'd have more than two square feet of desk space, as she was evidently too timid to do so herself.

Everyone has a brand-new comfy office swivel chair at their desk except her.

Hopefully the school will get her better sorted out eventually, but if you think this type of thing is 'foreigner treatment' think again, and if you're spared of it, especially when you start a new job, count your blessings.
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cdninkorea



Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well this settles it: Korean bureaucracy can be as slow and inefficient when dealing with Koreans as with foreigners.
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bogey666



Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
out of curiosity... and not to hijack your thread

but what exactly in terms of qualifications does a Korean teacher need in a hagwon?

and why would any teachers who are otherwise govt certified work for a hogwan instead of the public school system?
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004
PostPosted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
bogey666 wrote:
out of curiosity... and not to hijack your thread

but what exactly in terms of qualifications does a Korean teacher need in a hagwon?

and why would any teachers who are otherwise govt certified work for a hogwan instead of the public school system?


This *is* at a public school.

As an aside, a hagwon teacher needs a degree in a related field, but some of them don't even have that.
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Juregen



Joined: 30 May 2006
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
bogey666 wrote:
out of curiosity... and not to hijack your thread

but what exactly in terms of qualifications does a Korean teacher need in a hagwon?

and why would any teachers who are otherwise govt certified work for a hogwan instead of the public school system?


They need to have a teachers cert. plus a blank criminal record, according to MoE.
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Ukon



Joined: 29 Jan 2008
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm guessing she's a temp?
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moosehead



Joined: 05 May 2007
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
what kind of public school has a dormitory?
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John_ESL_White



Joined: 12 Nov 2008
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
moosehead wrote:
what kind of public school has a dormitory?


lots of specialty PSs have dorms... esp., foreign language HSs.

Anyway, sounds like anywhere else in the world... the newbie gets treated like crap. Your new KT is on the bottom and has to work her way up... same as in the west... except, we'd give her a nice chair in the states... can't vouch for the Candia or the UK though....
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Zutronius



Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
moosehead wrote:
what kind of public school has a dormitory?


The boys high school my friend works at here in Mokpo also has dorms.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
moosehead wrote:
what kind of public school has a dormitory?


Lots of public (or 'private-public', like mine) high schools in rural areas have dormitories for the students who live further away. If you're going to be at school until 9/10/11PM and have to be back at 7:30PM there's hardly any point in going home to sleep.
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