Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Chaucer]

Just thinking about YBM. Used to work there and we did 30 50-minute classes per week--thought of it as 30 hours, really.

When their ad now says
Six 50-minute classes per day, 25 teaching hours per week, Monday – Friday

it means 30 classes--they're folding the minutes together, aren't they? They've been death by a thousand cuts on their contract for years now, and this seems the latest cut.

Anyone know their OT rate? In 1999 it was 20,000 won/hour I'm pretty sure.

[Coltronator]

YBM is a decentralized, thousand headed beast. Unlike CDI where each one is mostly terrible in the same ways. Each YBM tends to be completely different from the next.

[GENO123]

ESL Korea went bust. It ought to be written off.

[Chaucer]

[rjones]

My partner and I currently work at two different YBM ECC's. As Coltronator said before, each one tends to be completely different from the next. Ours are owned by a married couple, yet they run them in slightly different ways.

Having said that, they both seem like pretty reasonable places for what they are. We have a few friends that have had major problems with their academies (not being paid, losing jobs etc.) and they are with academies that aren't part of a chain. Even on the blacklisting sight there are only a few YBM's listed.

What I'm trying to say is, I'm having a good experience with them at the moment so I guess it would depend where you decided to go (as with everything right?). And if you had a good experience with them previously, maybe you could get in touch with your old boss?

Good luck