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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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 Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| ontheway wrote: |
ed4444 made this point:
"I would blame it on a lack of clear regulation..."
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"One of my private students (haha! up yours immigration!)..."
Thank you. Here is a clear regulation. It is clearly bad, and commonly ignored.
Regulation is the problem. There is so much, nit-picky, god-awful regulation of the hogwan industry and foreign English teachers, that it is very difficult for a school (hogwan) with a good, popular program to set up and expand.
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Sounds good. Mothers seem to appreciate and know the difference between good and bad private tutors (ahem, so I heard from a friend of a distant acquaintance  ) so in theory they ought to know a good hagwon from a bad one (though I've yet to see it).
I don't think regulation per se is a bad thing. If regulation was designed to uphold standards of teaching and good business practice I'd say that was a good thing. But regulation in this country seems either pointless red tape designed to keep bureaucrats in work and citizens under government control, or designed solely to ensure that the government gets its cut from this highly profitable industry. Only those with money and/or connections get to be wonjangnims too; industry knowledge and nous are made irrelevant. All IMHO of course, hagwon regs are designed to let the top strata exploit the rest, like everything else in this country. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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So.........do you think this quote would apply to the hagwon industry in Korea?
There is a famous quote attributed to Hunter S. Thompson that goes something like this:
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
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