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[farzfive]

I received an offer for a position at the Jeoncheol English academy, but Google doesn't show anything for this school, and auto corrects my search to Jung Chul English academy.

Jung Chul English academy shows up on several blacklists, so I want to get this cleared up!

EDIT: The school is in fact part of the Jung Chul franchise.

[huffdaddy]

[farzfive]

So the recruiter confirmed my worst fears:

[le-paul]

i work for jungchul and have worked for them in the past.

what I would say generally about hogwans (this one included) is that your experience will come down to how your boss, co-teachers and students are. Usually if your boss is an a-hole - your time will be tough. But not all a-holes will automatically buy into a franchise (such as Jungchul). Pay attention to specific places on blacklists not necessarily chains (unless its winter wonder land or what ever its called...).

[Skippy]

The question is which area. Jungchul is the name of a brand of schools. Each school will be different from another. The one I worked at was okay - not horrible but not the greatest. Little bit more detail!

[farzfive]

The offer I am looking at is in Dangsan-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.

[PUNK]

I too have received an "offer" to work for the Jungchul school in Suji. Has anyone had any or heard any experiences at this location? The previous foreign teacher is leaving due to "personal reasons" and they need someone right away.. My recruiter wants me to send over my VISA documents right away so they can tell the director I am ready to go but I havent received a contract or even had an interview yet.. I'm a little pressed for time to get over there but not sure what to do . Any advice would be helpful!

[jendaejeon]

I just finished my contract with JungChul school in Techno Valley, Daejeon. I would really suggest not ever going to work for this school - the whole year teaching wise was pretty horrible, a lot of the materials I was expected to teach were Korean grammar, or pretty much Korean translation. Phone teaching was pretty awful and my boss was terrible too with almost zero English. I could forget all of that and just write of the year but having just finished, she refused to pay any more than half my plane ticket, and removed about a million from my bonus with no real reason, claiming "cleaning"....

I can't say about other schools, but if you are planning on moving to that area of Daejeon for a JungChul school, save yourself a lot of bother and don't go!!!!

[djz]

[refugee]

Has anyone had any experience of the JungChul School in Changwon?

[soundproject]

Hi all,
Has anyone worked at Jungchul School, Yangsan campus in Gwangju?
Any info on this particular branch would be much appreciated.
It seems it can be a hit and miss at lot of Hagwon chains, where your experiences can come down to your boss, co-teachers and conditions. But then I would guess it also depends on which Hagwon chain it is??
Please impart whatever you know about it, the good, bad and ugly included!
Thanks guys

[nomadcanuck]

Ya, I worked at a Jungchul school in Changwon in 2007-08. The director's name was SungMin. It was a shit place to work and he screwed me over. The majority of the textbooks are so formulaic, the kids hated them and it made the whole thing such an awful struggle. Don't recommend it at all.

[movybuf]

[Dog Soldier]

I work for a JungChul adademy (in CheongJu) and my 'franchise' is fine. It's not the greatest job in the world, but it's fine. I work 30 hours a week, sometimes more as paid overtime. Little to no prep time expected, all books and materials provided for.

Your best bet is to speak to the native teacher who is there now and get their feedback.

[Adventurer]