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[cragesmure]

[wylies99]

[Lastrova]

[Quack Addict]

[Lastrova]

[soyoungmikey]

For accurate advice pleas listen here. OP you don't owe anything, except utilities for the time you lived there. I left a contract after 6 months for a better job and moved out. The housing contract is between the school and the housing owner. You owe nothing unless you signed the contract directly with the owner. If not then you can leave scott free. If they withhold money that's another story. Then you can file a complaint with the labor board, or even threaten to call them and announce this to the employer. Usually this is enough to get what you need. If not this could be a lengthy, drawn-out process. Again you owe nothing. Period. The End.

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

Again, OP, it wasn't your problem. You didn't sign the contract. Why you even dealt with the landlord is beyond me. By doing so, you are basically giving them leverage if they decide to do an about face on the matter. The business was between the school and the landlord.

[serasera]

Anything that legally binds you to pay/do anything, you should have agreed to do so (at the beggining) in a written context, aka contract. If there isn't anything said on the contract then you are not obliged to pay. If the hagwon has signed a lease with the landlord - it's their problem. Hagwon directors conveniently forget sometimes that they are responsible for the actions they take when they are hiring E2 teachers. if the business succeeds and makes profit, they will benefit from it - which means if they don't, they are responsible for the loss. It's pretty simple.

*Just to make sure, give your contract to a Korean because sometimes korean and english sections are worded completely differently. I work for Gepik and I can read Korean - there are quite a few sections that sound totally different....

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[CentralCali]

When you move out, the landlord's going to return the security deposit to the lessee, who, in this case is your employer. That's provided, of course, that the school terminates the lease with the landlord and finds other digs for the new teacher. Now, if the school stiffs you on that, do you think the landlord's going to fork over another grand to you?

Everyone has access to a lawyer. The question is do you have the time and money to engage a lawyer for this? Legal fees here are expensive. And you might not be able to take time off from your new job to travel to the employer's area to appear at all of the court hearings. There's a reason that too many hagweon bosses are not afraid of refusing to pay their foreign employees.

[Menino80]

[Quack Addict]

UPDATE! In my previous school's never ending attepmt to pilfer 300k won from me they have changed strategies. Instead of claiming I owe them for penalties that were never charged by my landlord they want me to pay the realtor fees for the new teachers' apt. Apparently since the new teacher needed a new apartment the school says I should pay the fee since I quit and forced them to find a new apt.

Once again, not in my contract. I was forced to make a claim against them which is pending. I don't see how this is not a slam dunk win for me. But this is Korea. We will have to wait and see.

[Cerulean]

I am interested in how this turns out. I will be finishing my contract mid-rental agreement. Same situation as yours, the agreement is with the school.

[DaHu]

Seems like the school helped the OP get a bigger place, and now he's screwing them by leaving early, costing them money.

I think he should pay the fee to find the new place. Shouldn't be too much and he'll get the other money that's due him.

They HELPED out in the beginning, he shouldn't screw them in the end.

[RMNC]