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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 6:54 am Post subject: |
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Well, after a week, my recruiter got back to me on the school. She wrote "the school is considering other candidates for the job."
Makes me wonder... |
Sounds like they have decided to hire someone else. |
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nomanshaheer
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| PastorYoon wrote: |
| First day when you move in, find a hardware store (철물점) and buy tubes of silicon sealant and a caulking gun. There will most likely be an insect problem at the apartment that you'll want to take care of immediately. Bugs crawling around are just fine for Koreans; they will even think you're weird for talking to the school about it. Just handle it ASAP. |
Please tell me what are silicon sealant and a caulking gun and how to use them. I have huge insect problem at my Villa |
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Troglodyte

Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| nomanshaheer wrote: |
| PastorYoon wrote: |
| First day when you move in, find a hardware store (철물점) and buy tubes of silicon sealant and a caulking gun. There will most likely be an insect problem at the apartment that you'll want to take care of immediately. Bugs crawling around are just fine for Koreans; they will even think you're weird for talking to the school about it. Just handle it ASAP. |
Please tell me what are silicon sealant and a caulking gun and how to use them. I have huge insect problem at my Villa |
Wow. Not only did you hijack a thread, on a different topic, but it was from a year ago.
Anyway, I think that you can easily Google this topic. If not here's a starter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caulking
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| PastorYoon wrote: |
| First day when you move in, find a hardware store (철물점) and buy tubes of silicon sealant and a caulking gun. There will most likely be an insect problem at the apartment that you'll want to take care of immediately. Bugs crawling around are just fine for Koreans; they will even think you're weird for talking to the school about it. Just handle it ASAP. |
No, they don't think you're weird for talking about it. They just don't want to move their lazy a$$ to deal with it. As long as their apartments are nice and modern and yours is a dump, it isn't their problem. |
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BooG690
Joined: 14 Oct 2011
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| Lawrenceville International Academy seems to be hiring again. Does anyone have any experience with them? I'm currently in Korea and wouldn't mind meeting for a job interview. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| PastorYoon wrote: |
| First day when you move in, find a hardware store (철물점) and buy tubes of silicon sealant and a caulking gun. There will most likely be an insect problem at the apartment that you'll want to take care of immediately. Bugs crawling around are just fine for Koreans; they will even think you're weird for talking to the school about it. Just handle it ASAP. |
You do talk out of your butthole sometimes pastor. My wife would not tolerate bugs in our place in Busan, neither would her mother, her brother, all her friends. So that was nonsense OP, Koreans are not fine with bugfs crawling around their homes.
The LANDLORD may be cheap and REFUSE to pay to fix for a bug problem, that does tend to happen with landlords and expenses for buildings..oh wait that is not a Korean thing at all, never mind.
As for the job, well I agree about asking for picture of the apt. The school will be new and that will lead to some level of chaos as it would for any new business so you have to be ready to deal with this. the owner may be stressed about student enrollment until that stabilizes.
Personally, I would not chose to work for a place that was just opening unless it was part of a larger chain or unless I was sure it was a solid business that would do reasonably well. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| The fact that the school is just opening and they actually talked to you about where your Apt. will be sort of indicates they will offer you the job. Although I wouldn't necessarily count on it. If they don't email you back in a couple of days start looking again. |
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Died By Bear

Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| OP this sounds like the makings of the typical 'bait and switch' type of recruiter trick. The 'school hasn't opened yet' routine is common. Keep looking. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Not specific, but speaking from my experiences fom 3 years in Korea. |
I think more specifically its a matter of getting stuck in older and dumpier apartments. Newer and well built apartments and villas ought not have this problem, unless the owner's a d!k who cut corners while building the place. |
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