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[Squid]

A reasonable course would be to claim against your previous employer now, at the labor board. Of course you'd have to check your previous contract to make sure it doesn't contain an "out" clause in the event of business closure and/or bankruptcy...

As for the current monkey, tell him what you're doing and that the labor board have decided in your favor, also that you've begun a claim for your current late payments. That should get you some money.

Unfortunately it looks as though you might lose out on the pro-rata severance from the previous, and the current unless it's specifically written into your old and new contracts- or the one contract you've kept throughout- that you'll receive it. I guarantee if it's not written in they'll both argue, probably successfully at a claim, that you didn't complete a year to qualify so you can whistle dixie.

I had experience twice from this s*it and it's so frustrating when they jump through loopholes you wanna punch them...

Good luck anyways,

Squidmeister

[stakay]

Labour office today said the current boss is responsible for the entire severance money, even though I only worked 3 months for them, so that's good news for me and anyone else in a similar position of working in a hagwon that's been sold during the year.

The labour office also confirmed what jellobean, ttompatz and buymybook wrote (thanks for that by the way) about staying in Korea to get this sorted out if I don't get the money at the end of the contract - except they didn't mention anything about needing a Korean to sponsor you, as bmb said - all they told me was to take the copy of the partition they filed against the boss today to show immigration to get the extension. Maybe won't need to do that though, I hope.