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You · Joined: 31 May 2009

So, I always lock my room when we go down to lunch. Today, after I came back up the door was open but I thought I must have just missed pushing in the lock all the way. Then, later on a woman came to do story time and was alone in the classroom for about 10 minutes (my co-teacher called me to come downstairs) then the storyteller came downstairs and my co-teacher told me to go back up and lock the door. I was having trouble locking the door, but I finally figured it out. I've never had trouble with it locking like that before.

After school my co-teacher called me and told me 50k was missing from her purse. I'm thinking someone forced their way in during lunch, which is why the door was open and why the lock is having trouble locking now. Or, in the 10 minutes or so I was downstairs someone came in and took the money.

I keep my wallet locked away, but the situation really left me feeling unsettles for my co-teacher. I really care about her, and I wish it didn't happen.

Anyway, I've heard that theft happens here and it's just never reported. Does anyone else have a similar story? I'm wondering now about the frequency of petty theft and etc.

Old Gil · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Location: Got out! olleh!

Last year I worked at PS up in Eunpyeong gu (nw seoul) in a rather poor area at a PS. I had a camera stolen and a teacher in the subject room had 100k swiped.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

My Korean coteacher had several missing amounts from her purse over a 4 week period, totalling 100,000w. Turned out it was one of the grade 6 students, who I caught red handed, when I loitered around just before lunch, which was invariably when the amounts went missing. I had my suspicions when I saw that same student going into PC bangs & buying up big in Family Mart. He confessed and admitted he'd banged the key in the back door which shot out, then found the key to my coteachers drawer & took the money. He was a poor student whose mother had died & whose father was unemployed (his grandmother was looking after him), so the school was lenient with him. I offered him a candy bar to clean the room each week & never had any further problem with him. The money was never repaid, but my coteacher was philosophical about it, to her credit.

In my last school, all the English cds & a small cd case containing them, went missing during summer break. The response by the school was that the dumb foreigner must have misplaced it. But I distinctly recall leaving it on top of my work desk. At the same school my personal slippers went missing for weeks, & finally showed up with a big piece torn off them. I was forced to wear cheap, crappy, slippers in the interim.

Michelle · Joined: 18 May 2003

ChilgokBlackHole · Joined: 21 Nov 2009

A piece of advice from my father, that I'll always remember: People will steal anything.

You · Joined: 31 May 2009

I'm going to give my co-teacher 100k tomorrow in an envelope and say it's an early christmas present. It'll make us both feel better.

Also, I teach a public elementary school. I wonder what a high school is like in terms of theft and other crimes.

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

My guys can literally pick the lock on anything. And if that fails, they'll find wire cutters and cut the chain. It's unbelievable. I don't leave anything anywhere. Especially candy.

ed · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

at my school a teacher had 100 000 go missing from her purse.

my wife suspected the student who did it so she waited for that student to be in the same room as the teacher who was robbed then said to the teacher

" the surveillance camera video will be taken to the police tomorrow and they will review it."

a little while later the student sat down with my wife and admitted to the theft.

we don't have surveillance cameras

Mr. Pink · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: China

TL · Joined: 30 Mar 2008

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

We had a recent string of theft in the school. They found out who stole by tracing the spending habits of the stolen T-Money. Apparently, it was one of those T-Money cards that come out of a credit account. The teachers found the store where the card was used, and then got the CCTV footage from the owner.

Turns out to be 1 student.

Well, here's how this story affects me. This student is going to transfer schools, but she will be taking her exams here. I guess the school made some kind of deal with the parents, so the girl is allowed to take her exams here. However, she's being segrated from the other students to hide her identity.

So, I get called into school just to monitor this one thieving student take her exams. Not only did she steal from her classmates, now she is stealing 4 days of break.

Evil or Very Mad

If we lived in a mirror Universe like in Star Trek with the Evil Kirk, and Evil Spock; evil pkang would be very unhappy.

nathanrutledge · Joined: 01 May 2008 Location: Marakesh

The Goalie · Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Location: Chungcheongnamdo

Every time I scroll past this thread I see "Someone stole my co-teacher". Very alarming.

jiberish · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: The Carribean Bay Wrestler

Korean teacher caught a first grader taking handfuls of tootsie pops out of desk and putting them in her bag.

This stuff is always going to happen if you aren't careful. Live and learn.

PaperTiger · Joined: 31 May 2005 Location: Ulaanbataar

Guys who don't carry their wallet with them everywhere are just asking to have shit stolen from them, as are women who leave large amounts of cash in their purses. The people who continue to leave their stuff around after they've been stolen from are just plain stupid.

I try not to leave anything that I couldn't stand to part with in my room, even when it's locked. I just assume that kids will steal, because there's already been many thefts of cash and iPods this year.