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Arirang TV under probe for Embezzlement?

 
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Los Angeloser



Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:14 pm    Post subject: Arirang TV under probe for Embezzlement? Reply with quote

Arirang TV usually paints a very pretty picture of S. Korea so I don't suppose they'll be reporting about this...
http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/116_79293.html
anytime soon, do you? Hummm, employer --ARIRANG themselves -- cheats employees out of money(pays only about 50% of what should be paid) and opens a second bank account to hide money, doesn't that sound familiar?
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some waygug-in



Joined: 25 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So hagwans are not the only businesses that try this crap.

Sparkling.
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lifeinkorea



Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China

PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is not the same thing.

Quote:

�Excessive payments to Arirang TV Media stopped after a �corrupt official� left the production department to head another one in 2008,�
an informed source said. - http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/01/116_79330.html


Quote:
�We�ve discovered that Arirang TV has misappropriated at least 120 million won ($106,680)
through the use of a number of borrowed-name accounts,�an ACRC official told The Korea Times, asking for anonymity.


That's enough for 1 person to get a mediocre house. That's about it, whooppee.

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The NAMBU Foreign Workers Caucus in Tokyo estimated that up to 3,000 staff had not received their salaries on time. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_%28eikaiwa%29


DUDE!!! That's like 6 million dollars. Check out Nova if you don't know what happened.

This Arirang incident is small potatoes. One bad apple in a bunch, that doesn't make them bad. Nova on the other hand was openly taking people's money and not using it properly.
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Los Angeloser



Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lifeinkorea wrote:

This Arirang incident is small potatoes. One bad apple in a bunch, that doesn't make them bad.


Really, embezzlement isn't bad? Nice try, but I'm not convinced. If I'm not mistaken, stealing something that values 100 dollars or more is a felony. And a simple misdemeanor disqualifies native language teachers from teaching in S. Korea from what I understand?
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lifeinkorea



Joined: 24 Jan 2009
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Los Angeloser wrote:
lifeinkorea wrote:

This Arirang incident is small potatoes. One bad apple in a bunch, that doesn't make them bad.


Really, embezzlement isn't bad? Nice try, but I'm not convinced. If I'm not mistaken, stealing something that values 100 dollars or more is a felony. And a simple misdemeanor disqualifies native language teachers from teaching in S. Korea from what I understand?


One person shouldn't make a whole company go down. The Nova incident didn't only involve more money, but the company itself was run to take a lot of money from students and didn't give them classes or pay the teachers as a matter of "company" decisions. When I got there, they wanted me to sign a new contract with less pay.

Punish the guilty party who hid money, not the innocent people around them. What grudge do you have against Arirang as a whole? Someone on the inside probably ratted them out.
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