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DallasTexas
Joined: 14 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul Korea
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 Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:47 pm Post subject: Promises Kept (or that Tuition Bank Account thing again) |
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I wanted everyone to know that I succeeded in getting a story published about recruiters who get a kickback from the English teacher��s salary.
The story was published last week in Hankyoreh.
http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/116238.html
The news article starts out with the writer expressing great shock after reading Nancy's English teaching contract. Great details about the E-2 visa and the contract's terms & conditions are explained. Mostly embarrassing and not reflecting too well on the present system.
The difficulties for an individual English instructor to make a employment contract with a single school is the overall issue.
Middle-men/persons have traditionally dominated this arrangement of employment of foreign teachers.
And of course they get a slice of the teachers' pay.
SBS asked about interviewing me for a morning television show, but I haven��t heard back from them, so that may have fallen through.
If you want to read more about the situation see: http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=52870&highlight=
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antoniothegreat
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Location: Yangpyeong
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| is there an english version somewhere? |
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DallasTexas
Joined: 14 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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If possible I'll write it in English for the Herald. I wrote for a newspaper in the US, and I developed the story for the Korean reporter. But I hit a lot of walls when trying to interview people, not only because of language barriers but mainly: officials just refused to talk to me.
There was no way to do the story without turning it over to a Korean reporter. Juhee did a great job, and I appreciate Hani Newspaper's interest in the issue of recruiter scams. But Hani doesn't have an English version, so now I want the story published in a competing newspaper.
Well, as you can imagine it's a delicate negotiation.
Especially since Hani is publishing another story of mine on Teacher Appreciation Day. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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I doubt very much that Koreans will react to this article in the way that you seem to be expecting.
I'd guess that most Koreans will look at this and say, "He has good business sense, how do I get in on this?"  |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| antoniothegreat wrote: |
| is there an english version somewhere? |
with apologies to the author, here is the google translation...
http://www.google.com/translate_t
Source language after dismissal of a class the study ' brokerage body which it pushes heartily the flag '
6 full house in one day 16 full house commission
The lecturers the bankbook confiscate in duplex contract
The school piece cannot lecturer temperament verification,
Enterprise " mam broad way departure problem " explanation
Works from January public school which passes with the English lecturer in Korea a all American the poem (assumed name) which it puts out the employment written contract which protrudes from the brokerage body a report shock received. That written contract pe the pickled fish ' was see clearly a duplex employment contract '. To the written contract ' the contract which the school and the lecturer tie from the jar Korean government to receive the E-2c visa (visa which issues outside national language conversational map in foreign nation person whom it does) and it was for, the contract which it ties between the enterprise and the lecturer actual contract ' was becoming this. The core to come from the school the bankbook where the wages comes in manages from the enterprise, the lecturer changes a bankbook password with option bankbook, ci the possibility of doing in order not to be. When corresponding source language it sends a grant with the bankbook which is opened with name of the lecturer whom it pushes from the school, the enterprise will reach to receive, ' after taking off a commission ' first, the remaining money source language the urgent will be it is a thing in the lecturer whom it pushes.
The enterprise piece in the poem which it puts out per the hour when it is a tuition fee which it does urgently from the school takes off 15000 won presented a condition from 4 full middle enterprises. It listens to an example, the source language which does a one day 4 hour study the lecturer whom it pushes one day receives 16 full house and but, actually it is to receive 10 full house. 6 full house the brokerage body takes off all. The poem which it puts out the brokerage body and ' will tie a duplex contract ' from circumference and the lecturers who are a foreign nation which becomes irrecoverable tens full house in the every month enterprise piece it is not difficult it will not be and and the possibility where it will search for it was.
The candle. in. after the high school students finish a study, it receives a specialty aptitude study from the school, ' the school after dismissal of a class ' the parents charge a tuition fee. The computer department of pedagogy same part subject the length where the education enterprise participates to a program supply it is to be opened, but English in order for the school and the lecturer to contract directly. The brokerage bodies intrude but and the parents are the count where the considerable portion of the money which also the tuition fee puts out is soaking the boat of the brokerage bodies.
The problem the brokerage body leads from the school and the lecturer who is a foreign nation it is introduced, it is seen, the school will be able to verify the temperament of the direct lecturers there is a place. Seoul �� between works from the elementary school with the English lecturer is distant (assumed name)" the school piece me it did to listen to a study in mind, but that it will introduce the different lecturer from the enterprise piece, it will be able to extend a printed style of writing contract, " it got torn and " school berry sympathy the good lecturer teaching the students more with the enterprise piece relationship it was important more and it thought, " it conveyed.
It introduces the lecturer 30 dawn which is a foreign nation to the each school, �� the company piece " source language the lecture teaching material and journalist re-and study will hold in the lecturers whom it pushes and to be salty it receives an every month commission at the price which it provides, " it got torn and " the lecturers left with an option in contract period and it gets up the back problem which throws away frequently and the monthly salary bankbook directness there is not only it will be able to manage, " they talked.
Currently from Seoul source language the school which advances the English study which pushes about 100 reaches to the place with school program after dismissal of a class and this middle considerable possibility the brokerage body it leads and and the lecturers introduction it receives. One elementary school sympathy of Seoul " searches for the direct lecturers from the school and it comes out and and attempt it is strenuous,, with the lecturer and English a contract it ties and also the thing which it does is difficult doctor being understood actuality, " the hair e nwass c.
Instruction six cheng the elementary department of pedagogy interested party map in order for " principle the school and the lecturer to contract direct 1:1, steadily, " it gets torn and " it makes it provides to the school the method which it considers the lecturer manpower pool and and, it propels immediately, it is difficult, it revealed ".
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DallasTexas
Joined: 14 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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So.......The google.com korean to english version of a translation, obviously, leaves something to be desired.
Kinda of reminds me of my usual day working as the only native teacher in a school with 1200 students and 40+ teachers.
Lots get lost in translation ....
| some waygug-in wrote: |
| I doubt very much that Koreans will react to this article in the way that you seem to be expecting. |
You give me way too much credit; I'm a reporter, I expect nothing, in fact, I'm rather callous. I throw a story out there; I see what happens. But care? Rarely, sorry, I realize you expected more from me. |
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