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[The Floating World]

Any info?

Search function returns only a blank white page.

I like teaching the young kids best, but as long as class times are not over 50 mins and the academy has good materials and a bearable schedule.

So anyone ever worked for one? How was it?

Will not post locatiion as this is the first yr where I've felt the market is so competative ppl will try and poach the job lol.

[Gorf]

Do you mean Yeongdeungpo? In Seoul?

[The Floating World]

[Skippy]

The search on Dave's can be pesky. Try again but keep it simple like Kid's Club Seoul and check the radio button for ALL words.

Consider trying searcheslcafe.com too. Through lately it has been buggy too.

Last piece of advice is Kid's club is a chain school and it can be a toss up between heaven to hell. Each school can be different. You will want to add which community/dong the school is in when your search.

Chain schools still generally are run pretty strictly so better chance of being paid and getting benefits.

[The Floating World]

[The Floating World]

Man, I post abut the gig on here and two hrs later they have zero interest.

Gorf, you work there?

Is this forum browsed by recruiters etc?

[Skippy]

Ya it happens. Some times they want an answer right away or the will not tell no to your face.

[Beeyee]

If it's the one in Gangseo-Gu then you should avoid it like the plague.

[Spionen]

I worked for an LCI Kid's Club and it was pretty bad. We got paid on time and there were no split shifts, but that's the extent of the pros.

The director was probably the most mean-spirited, uptight person I've ever met and would regularly interrupt me in the middle of class to reprimand me in front of the students for things I honestly had no hand in. The kids hated and feared him (so did I, to be honest).

Grade inflation was expected, but it wasn't the full story- things sometimes went the other way, too. One time he presided over a school-wide speaking test and deliberately failed the best students so that he had an excuse to make them come in for extra tutoring (and groom them for an inter-hagwon contest a month later). More than ten of the smartest and/or most hardworking kids in the school were in tears that afternoon.

The curriculum was the usual crap you would expect out of most academies, but the icing on the cake was that we had to write our own textbooks (based on extremely strict guidelines, of course). That resulted in a huge amount of prep time.

Changes to my schedule were frequent and rarely communicated to me before the eleventh hour- like telling me at 11:28 that I had a new remedial class at 11:30 and oh, I'd better make it fun because all the kids in it hated English.

I don't know if they made good on end-of-contract severance or not because nobody I met or heard of had made it that far (I didn't either).

Edit: To clarify what I meant about nobody making it to the end of the contract...

I pulled a runner five months in, a decision I realize was unethical and one I agonized over because of the bad position it would leave my coworkers in. Still, I regard it as one of the best decisions I've ever made. I've never been as stressed out and depressed as I was working at LCI.

The girl I replaced had essentially been told "you're fired, but you have to stay here until your replacement arrives." It ended up getting dragged out to over a month because it took a while to process my visa. I can only imagine how miserable it must have been for her. I sat in on her last classes when I first got there and she seemed friendly, professional, responsible, and well-liked by the other teachers (Korean and foreign). I never got the full story on why she was fired, but I gather it was some personal issue with the director.

The last guy to go before her had gotten into a shouting match with the director. Can't say who was at fault, but based on my experiences there, I strongly suspect it was not the teacher.

When I left, the three other foreigners I worked with were still there. I sometimes wonder how they fared.

[jumponit]

on the flip side, I work at a LCI Kids Club and absolutely love it. My classes range from 2-7 sudents and I'm off at 4:20 two days a week!

[The Floating World]

I never got offered it in the end and think i ended up with a better psoition anyhows.

[Krzy4Kimbap]

WHATEVER YOU DO ...Do not work with ACE recruiter. That crazy recruiter Julia Kim kept my papers and for all I know she did forward them to my Korean friend. But she was going to keep my papers because I didnt' want to work with her anymore. Seriously she is a nightmare...and she is the one that suggested LCI ...if she is a shady recruiter , make me wonder about the school.

[wannateachinKorea]

[Jamie25]

[rdb13]

I work at LCI Kids Club. PM me for more info and location, etc.