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Should you work in SK?

 
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Do you like your job in SK?
Heck yeah! Everything is great!
29%
 29%  [ 9 ]
Heck no! Life here sucks!
29%
 29%  [ 9 ]
It's ok.
25%
 25%  [ 8 ]
I could take it or leave it. And right now I am thinking about leaving it.
16%
 16%  [ 5 ]
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sojusucks



Joined: 31 May 2008

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:44 am    Post subject: Should you work in SK? Reply with quote

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.
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carleverson



Joined: 04 Dec 2009

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go home then.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:10 am    Post subject: Re: Should you work in SK? Reply with quote

sojusucks wrote:
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.


Someone got their facts wrong.

As of 2009 (last year published numbers are available for from immigration) there were about 30,000 E2 visas issued and a couple thousand (combined) E1s and E7s for teaching.

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lifeinkorea



Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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eb



Joined: 24 Nov 2010

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Laughing

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



Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea

PostPosted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Should you work in SK? Reply with quote

sojusucks wrote:
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 K
orea should know all of the facts.




no one is forcing you guys to stay here, you can leave if you want.
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Rocktek



Joined: 17 Dec 2009
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:51 am    Post subject: Re: Should you work in SK? Reply with quote

sojusucks wrote:
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



That can't be right. There are twice as many illegal teachers as legal teachers?

I think someone got their facts wrong. I'd like to see a more authoritative source on these numbers myself.

I do agree with your last statement though, that the government should do more to remove illegal teachers who seem to fit the profile of their media stereotypes.
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jurassic82



Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Location: Somewhere!!!!

PostPosted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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Kurtz



Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me

PostPosted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

eb wrote:
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. Laughing

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


You're a Korean male, aren't you?!
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