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[SNOTOSEOUL]

My hagwon said i have to go. I went last year. For those of you here last year, you all know why i don't feel the need to do it again. in the past year i hhave not done drugs, raped the police officers daughter, and i still have an e-2 visa, and i even made it a year with out a costco card.

The paper i got said under article 21, subsection 3 it is mandatory that i go. 친자? Is it really mandatory? Daegu is the only city that does this. Plus if i got the stamp last year..............

Anyways, what do you think?

[TheUrbanMyth]

[SNOTOSEOUL]

SNIP?

[natalia930]

Smile Nod Ignore Procede
Except, Urban Myth, that we've been given this registration form that we are supposed to bring and get stamped...it seems like one copy will go to whomever is putting this stupid thing on, and the other we keep to give to our school.
*I* want to know how mandatory it is. We've been given less than a week's notice (rude, dynamic korea), and I have plans to be out of town, AND i'm leaving in 6 weeks anyways. I really don't see the point in going, unless somehow not going will severely screw me over.

[Zackback]

I went to one in Gumi last November. I was given a 1 day notice

[different]

WTF? All teachers in Daegu have to go to this? The government is making all the teachers in Daegu go to this? Am I reading this correctly?

[SNOTOSEOUL]

All teachers who teach at private institutions. So not Epik.

[WadRUG'naDoo]

Go or don't go. Probably won't make a difference either way. "You didn't go." "I'm sorry. I was sick/forgot/whatever." Go and leave after five minutes and say you have diarrhea. Options are endless here.

[ontheway]

There have been threads on these meetings just about every year.

The teachers' training meetings are required by law for all hogwan teachers. There are meetings for the Korean teachers, hogwan owners, and E2 English, Japanese and Chinese teachers. These are held all over Korea. Of course, only legally registered teachers have to go, so this is where you can find out if you are registered and if your school is following all the rules. Chances are that if you don't have to go to one of these meetings every year, you are not fully registered as a legal E2 teacher. English teachers on F visas have to attend with the Korean English teachers, if they are legally registered with the local education office as teachers at any particular school.

The fines for not attending are large. Fines are imposed on the school and your employer is expected to deduct the fine from your pay. In addition, your school will earn negative rating points, which impact the school's license to operate, if you fail to attend, although they might be able to avoid these by firing the offending teacher.

It is possible to duck out early once you've been registered as attending, but don't skip this meeting. Yes, the meetings are useless and annoying, and they are just as useless and annoying for the Korean teachers at your school. They rarely announce the date and location of the meetings more than a week in advance. Consider this as another kind of tax, imposed by the government against your time. This is just one more annoying requirement on teachers imposed by the government.

[different]

Really? Since when? I have NEVER heard of this before.

[SNOTOSEOUL]

[ontheway]