Korean Job Discussion Forums

[sojusucks]

The HIV testing requirement article, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2039281,00.html, got me thinking about working in SK.


The article is correct and this issue is just part of the discrimination legal foreign English teachers face in South Korea. If you play by the government's laws you end up with many hurdles to face and you get lower salaries and pay taxes. But illegal teachers get paid in cash and pay no taxes. You would think that the South Korean government would go after the illegal teachers but little is actually done. According to South Korean Immigration there are 17,500 legal foreign English teachers and 32,500 illegal foreign English teachers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jun/19/tefl-south-korea

The illegal teachers don't have college educations and many have criminal pasts. But instead of cracking down on the illegal foreign teachers the South Korean government continues to willingly allow legal foreign teachers to be demonized in the Korean press and in society as a whole. Anyone considering a job offer in South Korea should know all of the facts.

[carleverson]

Go home then.

[ttompatz]

[lifeinkorea]

Oh, the AIDS issue again for the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000th time.

And look, it's being disguised and propped up by a masked poll.

[eb]

What are you trying to say? I don't understand.
Any-time your are working with children, you are subjected to submitting
your entire lifes' history.
If you were a parent, wouldn't you want to know the person who was working with your children?

Re:Health Check: They don't want you getting anyone sick. Seems
like a pretty normaland reasonable request to me.
Yes, I do agree with you that some Koreans take it to extreme ( but this not everyone and defintly not the norm).

Re: Crimnal Records":They don't want people like phedopliles working
with thier children.Again,this doesn't seem unreasonable or unnormal.
Again, yes, some schools' would be absoluty extreme with thier judgements against anyone who's just had a simple arrest accusation ( but again, this is neither the norm here or there).

I don't think immigration policy was written under these "extreme" regulation. In fact,Iam almost 100% that sure that it was implemented as a sort of experiment to see how certain schools'/Koreans would react to the "generalized" foreign population.

Anyways,there are uneducated people EVERY-WHERE ( but, you certiantly don't have to work for those schools' or be around these Koreans.

[hondaicivic]

[Rocktek]

[jurassic82]

So many bitter people. What is the big deal about the AIDS check/ Korea is not the only country that does this. Oh yeah, they don't make other people on VISA's besides the E2 take the test. Boo hoo get over it.

[Kurtz]