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geedog
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul, SK
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 Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject: YES Youngdo July 25th Start |
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We just got offers from YES Youngdo for their July 25th start date. Anyone else heading over to Korea with Youngdo? What campus are you going to? Experiences or advice with Youngdo? TIA.  |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: YES Youngdo July 25th Start |
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| geedog wrote: |
| We just got offers from YES Youngdo for their July 25th start date. Anyone else heading over to Korea with Youngdo? What campus are you going to? Experiences or advice with Youngdo? TIA. |
The YES (Youngdo English School) chain typically has start dates on the 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 20, 21,22,23, and 24th of each month.
It is a typical CHAIN hakwon. It sounds like you are impressed that you found a position so quickly. DON'T be. DO YOUR HOMEWORK OR GET BURNED.
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Get e-mail addresses of more than one current teacher. Talk / e-mail them when the boss is NOT there and they are free to be honest with you.
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-Ask specific questions about shifts, start times, finish times, breaks, and pay issues. (a schedule of class, no class, class, no class, class just plain sucks). Lots of dead time that you can't do anything with.
-How do they calculate your "teaching hours"? How many CLASSES per month.
-OVERTIME, pension, and medical insurance are often issues of contention. Many hakwons fail to pay any of these. ASK!!!
- Ask about the housing - including quality of the apartment, management fees and utility costs. Your "free" apartment may cost you more than 150k won per month.
Feel free to ignore this advice... but you do so at your own peril.
Asking here is NOT the same as doing your homework and proper research.
There are TOO MANY hakwons in Korea and they often change names or owners when things get nasty. A year is a long time to spend in a crap hakwon 1/2 a world away from anything that you know and recognise.
CHECK FIRST HAND...... CHECK FIRST HAND.... CHECK FIRST HAND......
Good luck in your search.
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ANY and every good school will be willing to supply references.
If the school is uanble or unwilling to give you the names and e-mails of the current teachers then end your communication with them. A year is far too long to live in hakwan hell.
CHECK FIRST HAND...... CHECK FIRST HAND.... CHECK FIRST HAND...... |
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geedog
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul, SK
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| Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: Re: YES Youngdo July 25th Start |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| geedog wrote: |
| We just got offers from YES Youngdo for their July 25th start date. Anyone else heading over to Korea with Youngdo? What campus are you going to? Experiences or advice with Youngdo? TIA. |
The YES (Youngdo English School) chain typically has start dates on the 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 20, 21,22,23, and 24th of each month.
It is a typical CHAIN hakwon. It sounds like you are impressed that you found a position so quickly. DON'T be. DO YOUR HOMEWORK OR GET BURNED.
================================================
Get e-mail addresses of more than one current teacher. Talk / e-mail them when the boss is NOT there and they are free to be honest with you.
============================================
-Ask specific questions about shifts, start times, finish times, breaks, and pay issues. (a schedule of class, no class, class, no class, class just plain sucks). Lots of dead time that you can't do anything with.
-How do they calculate your "teaching hours"? How many CLASSES per month.
-OVERTIME, pension, and medical insurance are often issues of contention. Many hakwons fail to pay any of these. ASK!!!
- Ask about the housing - including quality of the apartment, management fees and utility costs. Your "free" apartment may cost you more than 150k won per month.
Feel free to ignore this advice... but you do so at your own peril.
Asking here is NOT the same as doing your homework and proper research.
There are TOO MANY hakwons in Korea and they often change names or owners when things get nasty. A year is a long time to spend in a crap hakwon 1/2 a world away from anything that you know and recognise.
CHECK FIRST HAND...... CHECK FIRST HAND.... CHECK FIRST HAND......
Good luck in your search.
(edited in extra bit)
ANY and every good school will be willing to supply references.
If the school is uanble or unwilling to give you the names and e-mails of the current teachers then end your communication with them. A year is far too long to live in hakwan hell.
CHECK FIRST HAND...... CHECK FIRST HAND.... CHECK FIRST HAND...... |
Thanks for the reply. What Korean company have you worked for in the past? Do you currently work for a company right now? What is your contract like? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:49 am Post subject: Re: YES Youngdo July 25th Start |
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| geedog wrote: |
| Thanks for the reply. What Korean company have you worked for in the past? Do you currently work for a company right now? What is your contract like? |
I am a relative newbie to all of this. I have only been here in Korea for 5 years. I do not have a Korean wife or girlfriend to help me out. My wife and I had to learn everthing the hard way. I learned my lessona at the school of "HARD KNOCKS". The lessons are a bit expensive sometimes, but it is a great teacher and we don't forget our lessons very often.
In Korea:
I did 3 years in hakwons. I did 1 year at the Korean National Police University and then I switched to the public school system (frankly cause I prefer little kids to big ones).
I have a pretty standard contract for a public school (ELI level 1). |
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