Korean Job Discussion Forums

[sluggo832004]

Just curious.....................

Im in one in America, and curiosity got the best of me.

[Colorado]

yes. but you are not allowed to join.

[jvalmer]

Yes they do, I believe there are two unions on the opposite side of the political spectrum. It's optional to join, but foreigners can't join.

[sulperman]

[oldfatfarang]

Most co-teachers have told me that their unions are ineffective. I have to agree. What union would allow their members to work from 8 am to 10pm most nights???

[nathanrutledge]

Define ineffective. The teachers unions here are politically and socially very powerful. They are the reason that 34% of KMA students believe that America was South Korea's enemy in the Korean War. The teachers unions are very, VERY pro unification, so much so that they are effectively lying to the students about history, glossing over the downsides to communism, being hypercritical about the Park Chung-hee government (the GOOD things that they accomplished), etc. The candlelight protests of 2008 were due in part to the teachers unions.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2908008

There is another article that shows much more of the statistics, like 25-30% see China as a more solid ally than the US (even though they haven't even recognized each other a full 20 years yet, AND they were the enemy of the ROK in the war). Do not underestimate the teachers unions here.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[TheUrbanMyth]