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JOrgill
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 Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:57 pm Post subject: New Epik application for Fall 2012 - can't request cities |
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| So the new EPIK form has arrived and they've removed the city preferences. Which were far from guaranteed anyway. Instead there's just an urban/rural and a check box for Seoul consideration. I guess its due to a lot of people applying to Seoul / Busan. Anyway, I want to stay in Daegu but change schools (hagwon atm). Any way around this? Like maybe going through the Daegu education office? I guess I could claim I have my own place so I'd stay in the same city but then I'd have to actually organise my own apartment for next year?[/quote] |
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Malislamusrex
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| This is a pretty clever way to reduce the number of applications. |
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Rutherford
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| I want to stay in Daegu but change schools |
I'm pretty sure this sort of transfer always goes through the MOE rather than EPIK. Talk to the Daegu MOE about it. |
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yfb
Joined: 29 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Are they still asking what elementary school you went to?  |
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Tower of Babel
Joined: 29 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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What a joke. I was gunning for a rural placement, now even that is completely random. Epik, good day to you, sir. China, here we come.
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| What a joke. I was gunning for a rural placement, now even that is comoletely random. Epik, good day to you, sir. Chiba, here we come. |
Chiba? Near Tokyo?
Oh, you fixed it. I'd check the forums for that country to make sure the grass actually is greener there. |
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Tower of Babel
Joined: 29 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| isitts wrote: |
| Tower of Babel wrote: |
| What a joke. I was gunning for a rural placement, now even that is comoletely random. Epik, good day to you, sir. Chiba, here we come. |
Chiba? Near Tokyo?
Oh, you fixed it. I'd check the forums for that country to make sure the grass actually is greener there. |
Yah, it's called a typo. Depressingly common in the age of the touchscreen. I suppose/imagine that you are typing away on a full keyboard in the daytime hours in Korea, and not drunkenly ranting about some bs e-mail you just got at the end of a long night.
In all honesty, I will probably just stay put right here in Amerka for a while. If, as you imply, times are tough everywhere, I might as well stay put and remain in control of my destiny. Unless you got some sweet leads for me in Chiba, Japan, that is... |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| isitts wrote: |
| Tower of Babel wrote: |
| What a joke. I was gunning for a rural placement, now even that is comoletely random. Epik, good day to you, sir. Chiba, here we come. |
Chiba? Near Tokyo?
Oh, you fixed it. I'd check the forums for that country to make sure the grass actually is greener there. |
Well there is no grass there, except the spray-on kind.  |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| Tower of Babel wrote: |
| isitts wrote: |
| Tower of Babel wrote: |
| What a joke. I was gunning for a rural placement, now even that is comoletely random. Epik, good day to you, sir. Chiba, here we come. |
Chiba? Near Tokyo?
Oh, you fixed it. I'd check the forums for that country to make sure the grass actually is greener there. |
Yah, it's called a typo. Depressingly common in the age of the touchscreen. I suppose/imagine that you are typing away on a full keyboard in the daytime hours in Korea, and not drunkenly ranting about some bs e-mail you just got at the end of a long night.
In all honesty, I will probably just stay put right here in Amerka for a while. If, as you imply, times are tough everywhere, I might as well stay put and remain in control of my destiny. Unless you got some sweet leads for me in Chiba, Japan, that is... |
That's fine. I'm not necessarily saying don't go, I'm just suggesting you read the China forum on Dave's international forums. There's a new social security deal you have to pay into and foreigners are apprehensive as to whether or not they'll get that back. And it's a good chunck of your already low salary there.
May be fine, but I'd wait t see how that pans out first. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| isitts wrote: |
| I'd check the forums for that country to make sure the grass actually is greener there. |
Well there is no grass there, except the spray-on kind. |
It's too bad, really. I've been hemming and hawing about going there for a while now. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:46 am Post subject: Re: New Epik application for Fall 2012 - can't request citie |
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| JOrgill wrote: |
| So the new EPIK form has arrived and they've removed the city preferences. Which were far from guaranteed anyway. Instead there's just an urban/rural and a check box for Seoul | | |
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