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special_k
Joined: 23 Mar 2010
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 Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:53 am Post subject: Unpaid Holiday in Hagwons? |
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Has anyone ever asked about unpaid holiday? I know that you only get 5 days in the Summer and 5 days in the Winter, but I would really like to be able to come back to my family for the Christmas week.
Has anyone ever been allowed to do this? Do you get to choose when you take the 5 days in the winter? Is the Christmas week busy in private schools?
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the ireland
Joined: 11 May 2008
Location: korea
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Unpaid Holiday in Hagwons? |
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| special_k wrote: |
Has anyone ever asked about unpaid holiday? I know that you only get 5 days in the Summer and 5 days in the Winter, but I would really like to be able to come back to my family for the Christmas week.
Has anyone ever been allowed to do this? Do you get to choose when you take the 5 days in the winter? Is the Christmas week busy in private schools?
Thank you
Kay |
your school might do winter vacation camps so these could hamper your chance of getting home, depending on when the students are on hols and if your school has these camps...they are a pretty good way to make some extra money through the hols though. Most hagwons get quieter towards march time (usually february is quiet) as the 6th graders start to dwindle after doing their exams to get into middle school.
I went home for a wedding in my first year teaching, I told the school I would be going no matter what and I didn't want to quit. They were very understanding and never once complained or objected to it, in fact my g.f also came with me and she worked in the same school. Another teacher here went home for a wedding for 2 weeks too.
Both of these were around oct/nov time. |
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MarionG
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:08 am Post subject: |
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You refer to "Christmas Week," which makes sense to westerners. But even to Christian Koreas, Christmas simply isn't the holiday it is in the
west. There is no Christmas week...just a holiday on Christmas Day. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Unpaid Holiday in Hagwons? |
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| special_k wrote: |
Has anyone ever asked about unpaid holiday? I know that you only get 5 days in the Summer and 5 days in the Winter, but I would really like to be able to come back to my family for the Christmas week.
Has anyone ever been allowed to do this? Do you get to choose when you take the 5 days in the winter? Is the Christmas week busy in private schools?
Thank you
Kay |
In a public school - maybe.... students start their winter vacations at that time.
In a hakwon you have about the same chance as a snowball in hades. |
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Banana_Man
Joined: 01 Mar 2010
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah it's very unlikely. I did manage to get a few days off 2 christmas vacations ago, to make the vacation into 2 weeks so I could visit home, but I was re-signing into my 2nd year and was in good graces with the school. |
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air76
Joined: 13 Nov 2007
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| Sometimes hagwons will give you unpaid leave, but not generally, and when they do it's for a family emergency, not just for a holiday. If you haven't signed the contract yet, make them put it in the contract that you get that week off, unpaid....they might go for it, depending on how many other candidates they have lined up. Even with the extra applicants, there are still a lot of hagwons who are hurting to find staff, especially in smaller towns. |
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bocceman
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
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Schools, maybe.
Hagwons? extremely unlikely. |
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sheba
Joined: 16 May 2005
Location: Here there and everywhere!
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| Its possible but it depends. My hagwon only closed for 4 days a year (2 in summer 2 in winter) and I was free to choose when to take the rest of my vacation. So with the rest of my vacation days, public holidays and a couple extra days off cos my employer was nice enough, I got 2 weeks at xmas. When I re-signed with the same hagwon, I negotiated 4 weeks unpaid vacation that I took all at one time, rather than 2 weeks paid throughout the year. (And I still got the 4 annual days off as well). |
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