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[eljuero]

I just saw this article this morning regarding visa regulations and the foreign "horde".

Other references to this "issue" are posted here at Dave's and as I recall at the Brian in Jeollam-do site (no doubt other sites as well).

I just laughed when I saw the time frame suggested by the lawmaker for Criminal background checks. I just can't imagine tons of problems.

Discuss!!

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/07/117_69194.html[/url]

[Whistleblower]

English teachers are assumed guilty prior to the award of a visa. I am confident that Korea will amend the visa laws to best suit those working and living in Korea. However, I have to ask how will the bill ensure the following would occur or not? Correct me if I am wrong, isn't Korea checking the background before teachers arrive in Korea? Vis a vis, how can one assume that a teacher without a criminal blemish not sexually harrass children or adults? A typical knee-jerk reaction at best.

[sulperman]

I personally am all for keeping child-molesting pieces of human excrement away from kids....and unlike many other people, I don't mind jumping through extra hoops for the sake of the kids. But yeah, her idea is dumb, dumb, dumb.

[ThingsComeAround]

Speaking of Dumb...
check out the reporter

[Italy37612]

I think you need a IQ below 70 to be a journalist or write legislation in this country.

[oskinny1]

[Morticae]

Why don't they just start doing random drug testing if they are so concerned?

The 1 month suggestion is just ridiculous. Keep it as is, switch it to FBI, everything is fine.

[Ramen]

they should just kick all of us out and just do away with E-2 visa.

[CentralCali]

I'm wondering where the incredible leap of logic was that makes "foreign marijuana user" equivalent to "pedophile." I'm also wondering if all Koreans are going to be subjected to a cannabis test since the "big news" items regarding sexual abuse of children are usually about the heinous crimes committed recently by Koreans.

[Troglodyte]

They will never introduce the "within 1 month" CBC rule. If they DID, people would pretty much stop working at hogwans. The time frame would be too tight to get the CBC, apply for a job, get an offer, and get the paper work to them in time.

I think the reason this woman said it was to give the readers the impression that we don't already have to get a CBC. If she said "lower it from 6 months to 1 month" then people would just brush her off as the moron that she is.

Does anyone know where she got that figure of 200+ cases of theft, rape, violence, etc? I'm not saying that I don't believe it. I'm just curious if it's another case of someone making up a number, or taking a calculated guess.

Personally, I don't think that increasing the visa process is going to get Korea any better teachers than it already has. As long as demand is so high, salary is lower than what a professional teacher (PS or ELT) in an English speaking country could make, there are no career advancement opportunities, and employers here have such a bad track record, then the status quo will remain. They will continue to get the occasional good teacher who hangs around for a year (or marries a local and stays) but most people will be either recent grads who want to travel a bit or they'll get the social degenerates who have trouble integrating back home.

They aren't likely to offer a better salary, because the current rates are probably "what the market will bear", but if they cleaned up the system and rewarded teachers more with training opportunities, changes for promotion, if they took the qualified experienced teachers seriously and not just used them as a walking tape recorder, they would probably end up getting better teachers come here more often and stay here longer.

If they don't want foreigners here teaching their kids so much, then the only other option is for the Korean PS and HS teachers to properly teach and motivate their students to learn. At present, the kids (and often adults) don't WANT to learn. They want an easier solution. If they could download it into their brains without any effort, they'd do that instead.

Actually there IS another option. They could simply close the boarders completely and ignore the outside world. They have enough fertile land and fish to support the population's food needs. They could get the occasional support from China in exchange for remaining a vassal state. Hmmm. Maybe North Korea is onto something.

[kingasiatic88]

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[Morticae]

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[ThingsComeAround]