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alex83
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 Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:09 am Post subject: Kindy Hagwon Question |
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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
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| 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
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:56 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:07 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:11 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:18 am Post subject: |
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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.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:34 am Post subject: |
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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...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| 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...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| 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
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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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.  |
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warren pease
Joined: 12 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| 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.
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I don't like it in 로마자.
It looks too much like "hog."
Why? What's wrong with writing it in 한글?
미안합니다
토마토 |
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warren pease
Joined: 12 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
I don't like it in 로마자.
It looks too much like "hog."
Why? What's wrong with writing it in 한글?
미안합니다
토마토 |
No need to apologize, sir. Just seemed a tad pretentious, as many of the viewers here may not read hangul. And since the primary goal (i hope) of this forum is to help ease NewB's transition, embedding the answers they might seek in Korean might not exactly be helpful. If you don't like "hogwan" just write it "hagwan," it doesn't really make any difference.
again, not looking to start a fray, just don't want the very valuable information to be lost. |
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giraffe
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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Have to agree writing random words in korean does sound a bit pretentious. Were all mostly westerners who speak english here soo theres no point to include it unless needed to explain something about korea or someone is asking for it. BUt thats just my 2 cents.
I still dont get why people call it HOG won though... to me when koreans speak it doesnt sound anything like that at all. Seems like how westerners seem to be pronouncing it.. sounds alot more like HA GWON to me.... |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
| 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. |
We had a teacher who came in person to the school where I work looking for a job. He had been refused a visa previously by Immi for teaching illegally just based on his resume. We wanted to hire him but Immigration would not issue him a visa and they could tell from his resume that he had been teaching at other jobs illegally, without an E2 visa and just on a tourist visa. He had to leave for Taiwan in a hurry and just barely avoided being arrested. The school where he had been teaching was closed down shortly thereafter.
Hint to teachers:
Don't put illegal activities on your resume. |
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