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randall020105
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Location: the land of morning confusion...
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Pay me a lot more and I'll go there. Pay me 100k more and I'll stay within 45 minutes of Hongdae. |
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plato's republic
Joined: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Ancient Greece
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Some 950 teachers, or 4.7 percent, cancelled their employment contract in mid-semester within the first year and 34 percent among them (as of this July) quit during their first six months, according to the survey.
About 28.3 percent of them resigned upon being admitted to a school or getting their desired job, indicating that English teaching is largely considered among native speakers as an easily accessible part-time job.
Perhaps the 28.3% who resigned actually indicates that they found themselves in less than satisfactory conditions and preferred to tender their notice rather than spend a year of their life in a terrible situation.
�We will also reinforce the employment processes to filter the unqualified candidates.�
How are they going to further filter out the unqualified candidates? What exactly is an unqualified candidate? |
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Troglodyte
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| They might need to ask themselves why near everyone with qualifications goes to Seoul. If my qualifications were actually acknowledged here, I'd be a lot more willing to work out in the middle of nowhere. Otherwise, I'll take a job somewhere with other benefits - entertainment and convenience. |
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liveinkorea316
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
Location: South Korea
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| indicating that English teaching is largely considered among native speakers as an easily accessible part-time job. |
I like the way that the newspaper (or whoever made that statement) conjectures that Native speakers left the job cause they don't care about it.
And BTW none of the jobs are "part-time" since that woould be illegal on an E-2. I guess the person mean't holiday job or temporary job...but the writer's English skills just weren't up to it.
I guess they are also comparing foreign to Korean teachers to make that conjecture. Korean teachers have so much more to gain by staying in one job because if they left their first job they would give up on a lifetime of easy street, impossible to be fired, sleeping on their desk, automatic raises, heaps of holidays....it's not like that for foreign teachers. So changing to another job is not such of a deal. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| plato's republic wrote: |
Some 950 teachers, or 4.7 percent, cancelled their employment contract in mid-semester within the first year and 34 percent among them (as of this July) quit during their first six months, according to the survey.
About 28.3 percent of them resigned upon being admitted to a school or getting their desired job, indicating that English teaching is largely considered among native speakers as an easily accessible part-time job.
Perhaps the 28.3% who resigned actually indicates that they found themselves in less than satisfactory conditions and preferred to tender their notice rather than spend a year of their life in a terrible situation.
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Or perhaps they realized that they weren't cut out to spend a year abroad.
It seems like it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. |
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stephorama
Joined: 19 Sep 2010
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| How are they going to further filter out the unqualified candidates? What exactly is an unqualified candidate? |
According to the article "In order to be recognized as a professional, a foreign English teacher is to have acquired a teacher�s license in his or her home country or a license in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages or Teaching English as a Foreign Language."
Maybe being recognized as a professional would make a person "qualified"?
Funny, I've never seen an inkling of a clue that the Korean government or education agencies give a rat's behind about "professional" teachers.
So far in my negotiations my credential has amounted to all of about 200,000 won more per month. woo freakin' hoo! |
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randall020105
Joined: 08 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:52 pm Post subject: professionalism |
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| kudos to all y'all... even i can get certified in less than 11 months. guess if you stick it out you too can be viewed 'Professional'. "Land of morning confusion" ride the waves early in the morning while there's still some cool swells left. Fully!!! |
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JBomb
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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| What they mean by qualified is you did not pass a Korean School for teachers and you did not get Korean Certification. I am sorry but the qualifications state very clearly University Degree. If you have that then you are qualified. Otherwise you would not even be considered a candidate. |
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