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[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[eamo]

Jongnoguru.

Post of the month!! Very funny.

Will I walk around Seoul one day and see the Statue of Liberty half-buried in Namsan park and cry, "It was America afterall", while pounding the ground with my fists?

[lastat06513]

Jongnoguru

I also have to admit, you did bring some slapstick to the issue
Thanks

[Gollum]

[hari seldon]

[hari seldon]

[chronicpride]

I'm curious (as are probably XYZ amount of directors and recruiters are doing right now) about where in this modified process is going to be the opening for the bribe. There's no way in hell that directors, en masse, are going to give up monthly profit margin to make more tolerable class schedules, better provided living conditions, and salaries, without first considering the token bribe of a few hundred thousand Won to put a visa process in motion, that will only need to get done, once a year.

[hari seldon]

[mastrwik]

Great post JongnoGuru.

[lastat06513]

Some think things will get better after all the regulations are in order, that this will make the situation better for the teachers.

Guess what, it won't

People should think from the Korean business mindset.

To provide better conditions and salary would make them raise tuition costs, this would be undesirable, especially since Koreans are already complaining of high education costs as it is. And with the continued economic slump, people would rather send their children to other programs or even overseas to get an English education rather than pay more for the tuition, especially if the teacher is too old to play and sing to their children

Hours won't be lessened because then the Korean teaching staff would complain about the unfair pay and hours the foreign teachers would get compared to themselves. And they need to have a flexible schedule for the children. So, to make for the lost time, they might even start asking people to teach on saturdays.

For the boss to sit down and discuss issues with his teachers and come to a compromise would be like losing face with the other employees because it makes him look weak. So, treatment won't get better.

Just give it time, lets see where all this is leading to, whether it be for the best...or for the worst.

[chronicpride]

I think we'll likely see stuff like when the director goes to immigration with the teacher, and the director makes a huge stink, like 'his university says that it will take 4-6 weeks for the transcripts to be mailed here, DO YOU WANT TO JEOPARDIZE MY BUSINESS!!! RAWR! RAWR!'

/public humiliation of immigration officials ensue

This scenario I can see happening a lot, regardless of how many lectures the schools and recruiters will get about planning for this in advance.

The E2 will then get processed with someone making the notation that the school needs to come back in a few months with the sealed transcript, of which there will be zero attention paid nor any follow-up by immigration when the school doesn't show.

It'll turn into an IOU thing where the IOUs will get lost in the shuffle, and Immigration officals that approved the E2 can either make note of the IOU and blame the schools down the road for failing their responsibility, or what will likely come about when this becomes so routine, is that they will just click the box on the computer screen where it says that they saw the transcript at that time of processing, and move onto to the next guy in line. Considering how under-staffed that they say they are, I'll lean towards this scenario.

[lastat06513]

sadly enough
yes

[hari seldon]

[JongnoGuru]

[chronicpride]