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[Chopstix]

my friend just spent 5 days in the cell at immigration. there is a huge crackdown now on part time teachers and companies- take off all resumes with pics on English Spectrum and Workn Play- they have a monitor working those sites- the cell was terrible and he will be deported after paying 2 million in fines- at least a year before he can come back-

phones with working contacts are a bad idea as they check all numbers and friends unknowingly tell undercover workers what their buddies do.

be very careful as it can really ruin your future and life in korea!

[dulouz]

TY for the serious sounding tip

[crazylemongirl]

this has been in the news for quiet sometime that there was going to be a big crackdown in June.

Sorry to hear that your bud got caught but the reason privates are high is because part of the cash is 'danger money'

[Hollywoodaction]

Posting one's pic and contact information online in the hopes of getting part-time jobs and privates? That's one for the stupid foreigner file (here's a novel idea: get a real job). Goes right next to the "I'm afraid I can't leave the country because I've willfully surrendered my passport to my boss and he won't return it" file (call your embassy, dimwit).

[Homer]

Well,

If a person does something illegal (in this case pvts) then there is always the chance they might get busted. Thats a choice you make and if the piper comes knocking, you just have to pay up.

[chronicpride]

[Homer]

[Chopstix]

yeah it was actually friday he went in- thanks tips (chronic) just be careful out there- even if you have an E2 at one place they are cracking down hard!- my buddy was here for 2 years and is leaving alot of good friends and a good life behind! it is really not worth it to use a recruiting company for part time work!

[Homer]

[Gollum]

The funny thing about all of this is that it will only drive prices up, and drive the classes "underground."

Although I don't teach any business classes, I've followed the boards and read about how recruiters have "snatched up" a lot of the jobs that used to pay above 50,000 - 70,000 an hour to a private individual. The recruiters took the same job, keep a cut, and now pay the teachers something like 35,000 an hour.

Immigration is doing teachers a huge favor. Pretty soon, these recruiters will be gone, and the courses will once again be taught by a foreinger for more money. Just as there are fewer and fewer E-2 visas being issued because it's a pain and people from Canada, for example, can work on 6-month Tourist Visas -- soon, the business jobs will not be in the hands of recruiters. They will be in the hands of individual teachers who cannot be easily traced or busted through an agency.

The jobs won't go away. The money will just be channeled in a different way -- directly into the hands of foreign teachers with no Koreans taking a cut. And just like the Tourist Visa problem, immigration will be virtually powerless to stop it.

Those who teach these PT jobs on their own should say, "Thank-you immigration!"

[Homer]

[Gollum]

[schwa]

Derrek wishes he was born Canadian.

[Derrek]

Why me??

[just because]

Does anyone get the feeling Homer really is a privates king and he is trying to scare everybody else into not doing them so he can corner more money