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[rapier]

I know someone jobhunting at the moment..says that recruiters are wringing their hands, unable to find anybody to fill hagwon positions any more.
It seems that the increasing intake into govt. schools is beginning to swallow up all available teachers..
If anybody still wants to work in hagwons, i'd say you could probably write your own contract pretty much now- but be ready for the place to fold in the near future, if not start employing Bangladeshi English teachers out of sheer desperation..

-Just look at the sheer number of vacant hagwon jobs being posted.. A lot are facing ruination, I reckon. Or is it just a temporary/ seasonal thing?

[Gopher]

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[Ya-ta Boy]

[Gopher]

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[Derrek]

The gov't is trying its best to squash hagwons.

Several years back, a dictator-like president all but outlawed hagwons, but it didn't work. Hagwons are viewed by many as shameful proof that the public/private school system just doesn't work.

Koreans are trying to improve their educational system in so many ways, but they're desperately doing so in the dark. Whether or not they realize it, the problem is more of a cultural one than just educational. They only way they can fix it, in my view, is to send their teachers abroad to be educated, or bring real educators here to re-train the old teachers and train the new incoming teachers. It will take two or three decades, but things can be fixed. But Korea would need to swallow a whole lot of cultural pride to make it work. The system of tests and practice tests which take up so much student time and energy must be scrapped. I could go on and on.

As you can read on EFL-Law, the gov't and lawmakers are also VERY concerned about the growing numbers of children who are seeking an education elsewhere. They realize that their public schools are utterly failing to provide an education that can compete worldwide. The smart parents who have money are clamoring to get their children out for an education that focuses on educating instead of entrance tests. The government is alarmed.

Koreans are fabulous at math skills, however for all of the time students study, they aren't good at much else. They have no reasoning skills. They can't solve life-oriented problems easily on their own. They have little deductive reasoning skill. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if you put them 10 of them together on some island reality show, with no handphones or internet. They would probably just huddle in a tent together and starve.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mindmetoo]

[hari seldon]

[manlyboy]

Not that I'm bitter or anything, but I say burn 'em down and we all go toi-toi on the ashes. OK, maybe I'm a little bitter.

I know at a major university in Seoul they've been forced to sign up teachers whose applications they initially threw to the bottom of the pile. They waited too long to make the offers, so their A-list, and even most of their B-list choices took other jobs.

[Captain Corea]

[Gopher]

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[JongnoGuru]

[Gopher]

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[Teufelswacht]

[chronicpride]