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mourningclam
Joined: 27 Jan 2004
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 Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject: Mandatory gov't Saturday thing in Incheon |
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My boss just informed my fellow teachers and me that we have to go to some place in Incheon for some government lecture or training or something on Saturday from 9 to 1. It wasnt too clear to me. He said that ALL teachers in Incheon are required to go, including Korean teachers. Has anybody ever heard about this?
The Korean teacher at my school went last year and told me to bring a walkman because its really boring. He slept through the entire thing so he caouldnt give me any specific details about what was being talked about during the lecture. |
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Hagwon Muppet
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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I have heard of teachers attending these things before. I have no idea if they are compulsory or not but you can decide if its worth fighting ith your boss about.
It will be all in Korean of course so unless you understand the language at a pretty fluent level you might want to take the mp3 player and/or large amounts of reading material. |
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beast
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't go, it's not mandatory, at least from the perspective of whether or not you retain your E2 visa. Usually they charge ten thousand Won also for the inconvenience. |
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Kristsoy
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 3:51 am Post subject: ? |
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| tell ur boss if it's not in english u aint going. is he paying u? |
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Derrek
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| Your boss might want to show you off to his hagwon buddies. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Gangwondo has a similar annual deal for foreign hagwon teachers. They put on a 2 or 3-hour saturday seminar, largely in english but largely useless. 'They' would be some obscure branch of the provincial education ministry looking to be seen to be hosting an event.
Your hagwon director, if he is legitimately accredited, is obliged to have all his workers register (i.e. sign in & be present) or is subject to a hefty fine. There is a registration fee but no way should the teachers have to pay it.
Refusing to attend puts your director in a really difficult position. Is one saturday out of 52 worth poisoning your workplace relationship? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
Gangwondo has a similar annual deal for foreign hagwon teachers. They put on a 2 or 3-hour saturday seminar, largely in english but largely useless. 'They' would be some obscure branch of the provincial education ministry looking to be seen to be hosting an event.
Your hagwon director, if he is legitimately accredited, is obliged to have all his workers register (i.e. sign in & be present) or is subject to a hefty fine. There is a registration fee but no way should the teachers have to pay it.
Refusing to attend puts your director in a really difficult position. Is one saturday out of 52 worth poisoning your workplace relationship? |
How many of these have you been to? I was the speaker at last year's meeting. Yeah, I guess it was useless...  |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
How many of these have you been to? I was the speaker at last year's meeting. Yeah, I guess it was useless... |
Nothing personal demophobe! I attended a couple 4 or 5 years ago & there was in fact a native speaker made an earnest presentation of some teaching tips. It was kinda lost though amid all the standard bureaucratic pomp & ceremony. |
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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 4:22 am Post subject: sat |
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If they want you to go to a seminar on your day off....do what I did:
demand overtime payment for transportation, meals, accomodations, time spent at seminar and travel time. Needless to say they made a quick decision that we did not have to attend after all.
Grotto in Gangwon-do |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 5:17 am Post subject: Re: sat |
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| Grotto wrote: |
If they want you to go to a seminar on your day off....do what I did:
demand overtime payment for transportation, meals, accomodations, time spent at seminar and travel time. Needless to say they made a quick decision that we did not have to attend after all.
Grotto in Gangwon-do |
Same here.
My school wanted me to attend weekend seminars for the books I was teaching, however, they were conducted solely in Korean, except for the parts where they were pretending to teach english  all of which I had the useless videos for... don't go. |
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