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alex83



Joined: 03 May 2007

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:09 am    Post subject: Kindy Hagwon Question Reply with quote

A friend of mine is talking to a kindy hagwon about possibly working a year.
They're telling him something about kindy hagwon not being allowed to hire English teachers, thus not allowing him to get a visa.
Is there any truth to this?
Help is appreciated.
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greedy_bones



Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: not quite sure anymore

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nope. This is a lie. I've worked for a kindergarten hagwon with a visa before.
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valkerie



Joined: 02 Mar 2007
Location: Busan

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Regular Korean kindies are supposedly unable to hire foreigners. (Which is a pity as that was my job at one point in Japan, it rocks!).

Any hogwon, regardless of student age group can hire, presuming they meet the rules re student numbers etc.

Sounds odd that they are saying this during hiring!
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OneWayTraffic



Joined: 14 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would depend on their registration.

If they are registered as an English hagwon then they can. As a regular kindergarten, probably not.
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Cerriowen



Joined: 03 Jun 2006
Location: Pocheon

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

B.S.

I worked for a kindi hakwon. Well... preschool / kindy

It was a chain. There were 9 foreign teachers at my place, and another 30 at other schooles.

That's B.S.
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OneWayTraffic



Joined: 14 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would depend on their registration.

If they are registered as an English hagwon then they can. As a regular kindergarten, probably not.
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I once worked at an afternoon 학원 in which the director sent me out to kindergartens in the area.
I included contact information from those kindergartens on my resume.
The immigration office told me that I should erase that information or I could get in trouble.
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ontheway



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OneWayTraffic wrote:
It would depend on their registration.

If they are registered as an English hagwon then they can. As a regular kindergarten, probably not.




Exactly.
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ontheway



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomato wrote:
I once worked at an afternoon 학원 in which the director sent me out to kindergartens in the area.
I included contact information from those kindergartens on my resume.
The immigration office told me that I should erase that information or I could get in trouble.




You can only work legally at the address on your ARC.

You were working illegally. Immigration could have busted, fined and deported you based on your own confession in your resume.

You were lucky.



Other teachers have been busted based on their own resumes.
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moosehead



Joined: 05 May 2007

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ontheway wrote:

You were working illegally. Immigration could have busted, fined and deported you based on your own confession in your resume.

You were lucky.



Other teachers have been busted based on their own resumes.



say what??

please share with us an example - I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to hear. Rolling Eyes
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warren pease



Joined: 12 May 2008

PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomato wrote:
I once worked at an afternoon 학원 in which the director sent me out to kindergartens in the area.
I included contact information from those kindergartens on my resume.
The immigration office told me that I should erase that information or I could get in trouble.


What in God's name (Happy Easter) is the point of writing "hagwon" in hangul?
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't like it in 로마자.
It looks too much like "hog."
Why? What's wrong with writing it in 한글