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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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 Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: What is a "designated rural area"? |
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I see the following condition in many contracts:
"2. Employee who is working in a designated rural area shall be entitled to a paid allowance of 100,000 KRW every month and additional 5 working days� paid leave during the contract term."
How do you determine what is a designated rural area? |
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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you don't
They do
It refers to a village school, think small class sizes, maybe a half hour from the city by fast car, poverty, inbreeding. Gangwon-do is full of rural posts. |
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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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I know "they" do. And I know what "they" you are referring to, LOL.
"How do you" was not meant as "How does a teacher".
"How do you" was meant as "How do schools". In this case, "you" is general.
You completely misread that part. |
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broken76
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Ask the school or recruiter. Some schools are designated rural while others aren't. Some schools in urban areas are considered rural since that's how they were designated during the last census. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:54 pm Post subject: rural school |
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| 'Designated Rural schools' are, in general, away from the cities. They are in the midst of farms, but can also be in economically depressed areas. The school has to apply to become an 'anti-private tuition school'. They'll receive funding to provide lessons to students that only the hagwon going students could receive, e.g. English taught by native teacher, music lessons, art lessons, sports teams, etc. There are around 450 or so of these schools in Korea. This program will last 3 years. I haven't found a list of these schools, yet. |
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iammac2002
Joined: 12 Jun 2009
Location: 'n Beter plek.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| Half an hour? Fock no! I lived in a paddy field 3 hours from Yongsan and Daegu by train. Half an hour is nothing. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:49 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, ask the recruiter, or better yet the district's foreign teacher liason.
Jeollanam-do has 22 cities and counties. People think all of Jeollanam-do is "country," but only 4 counties are "designated rural areas" by the school board: three counties comprised entirely of islands, and one comprised nearly entirely of islands. So though I was in a county of 35,000, living in a town of 16,000, teaching in schools with 250 and 49 students, I wasn't in a designated rural area. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
Yeah, ask the recruiter, or better yet the district's foreign teacher liason.
Jeollanam-do has 22 cities and counties. People think all of Jeollanam-do is "country," but only 4 counties are "designated rural areas" by the school board: three counties comprised entirely of islands, and one comprised nearly entirely of islands. So though I was in a county of 35,000, living in a town of 16,000, teaching in schools with 250 and 49 students, I wasn't in a designated rural area. |
An island? As in, a sparsely populated, isolated for hundreds of years island? That sounds like a cool place to be for a few weeks, and a terrible place to spend a year. But do you know anyone who taught on one of these islands? I'd love to hear about their experiences! |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| Smee wrote: |
Yeah, ask the recruiter, or better yet the district's foreign teacher liason.
Jeollanam-do has 22 cities and counties. People think all of Jeollanam-do is "country," but only 4 counties are "designated rural areas" by the school board: three counties comprised entirely of islands, and one comprised nearly entirely of islands. So though I was in a county of 35,000, living in a town of 16,000, teaching in schools with 250 and 49 students, I wasn't in a designated rural area. |
An island? As in, a sparsely populated, isolated for hundreds of years island? That sounds like a cool place to be for a few weeks, and a terrible place to spend a year. But do you know anyone who taught on one of these islands? I'd love to hear about their experiences! |
The four places that are designated rural areas in Jeollanam-do are Shinan, Goheung, Wando, and Jindo counties. Shinan is comprised of, like, a thousand islands. Goheung has a peninsula but is mostly islands. Wando and Jindo are all islands as well, and have outlying ones beyond the main ones, Wan-do and Jin-do. The main ones have towns the same size as others in Jeollanam-do (just over 10,000 people). I don't think the day-to-day life would be so bad---or at least any different than I experienced in Gangjin. It was very lonely there, and at times it got to me, but I just had to make my own fun and keep myself interested and engaged. But what would be a bit of a hassle I think is just that it takes a while to get anywhere by bus.
I've known people in Wando, Jindo, and Goheung. They've worked on the main islands, but didn't have to hop a ferry to the outlying ones. The woman on Jindo recently returned back to the US, but you can look through her blog for some cool pictures of the area:
http://www.driftingfocus.com/blogs/
One of the women on Wando had a small blog, too (you'll have to look through the older entries for Wando stuff):
http://melisainkorea.blogspot.com/
The Korea Herald recently looked at a family moving from Mokpo to Shinan:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/06/18/200906180061.asp |
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driftingfocus
Joined: 08 Feb 2007
Location: Boston, MA
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| Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| Smee wrote: |
Yeah, ask the recruiter, or better yet the district's foreign teacher liason.
Jeollanam-do has 22 cities and counties. People think all of Jeollanam-do is "country," but only 4 counties are "designated rural areas" by the school board: three counties comprised entirely of islands, and one comprised nearly entirely of islands. So though I was in a county of 35,000, living in a town of 16,000, teaching in schools with 250 and 49 students, I wasn't in a designated rural area. |
An island? As in, a sparsely populated, isolated for hundreds of years island? That sounds like a cool place to be for a few weeks, and a terrible place to spend a year. But do you know anyone who taught on one of these islands? I'd love to hear about their experiences! |
I used to live on Jindo, one of the rural islands. What in particular do you want to know about rural Korean life? I am now back in the states, but I'd be glad to chat with you about it, or you can also read back through my life in Korea category on my blog over here: http://www.driftingfocus.com/blogs/?cat=326 |
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