Korean Job Discussion Forums

[ramen209]

My co-teacher told me that employers can easily tell if native english teachers leave the country and can get into a lot of trouble if they leave the country without permission during "work at home week" .

Does anyone know if this is true?

[wesharris]

I doubt it .

[lifeinkorea]

They can't.

[Rory_Calhoun27]

Maybe that's what they want ya to think!

[tokkibunni8]

well if they call up immigration, but do you think they will go through all that crap just to see if you left?

[ramen209]

is there an online database?

[reactionary]

They can check. Would they? Well, it sounds like you've put suspicion into their minds. Might have been better to be quiet.

[The Gipkik]

Don't do it. They let you stay at home rather than come to work and you go and flip them by going abroad? Geez...

[schwa]

There simply arent the same walls of privacy between different govt agencies you might be used to back home. Schools sometimes find out. Your proposed trip is precisely why "seat-warming" has become so prevalent.

[nomad-ish]

[Seoulio]

Yes this is totally and completely true, some people are yet again talking out of their sphincter having no clue about this issue.

[OiGirl]

I would travel to Busan or Mokpo and then just turn my cell phone off for a few days while I...er...studied TESOL books from the comfort of a domestic island minbak.

[conrad2]

Your arc card has a GPS chip implant so they can go online and see wherever you may be on planet Earth.

[kiwigirl :O)]

If you work for a public school and the government chose to do an audit on the vacation times for their teachers and your school is chose then that could lead to trouble for you and your coworkers (but I also heard that probably by the time they get round to doing the audit you could quite possibly have been done with Korea and moved on to the next country)