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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Do you just kiss off the price of the contracted flight home?

Snowkr · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

Absolutely not!
If you've fulfilled your contract requirements your employer is required to pay for your flight home. You don't have to resign for another year if you want to leave.
I'm leaving in 5 weeks and never had any intention of staying longer than 1 year. My flight is being arranged for me and I expect the bonus before I leave the country.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Sorry. I wasn't clear.

I mean, if you decide to stay in the country, but not re-sign at the same job, do you automatically forfeit the plane ticket home?

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

jinks · Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Location: Formerly: Lower North Island

I took the cash equivalent. I was staying in Korea, but had to leave to go to Japan on a visa run for my new job. The boss gave me an envelope stuffed with cash, it was a little bit less than the cost of a colleague's one way trip home, but it was still an acceptable wad of won. The boss paid me out a little less than the cost of my mate's ticket because it was a business expense that didn't have a receipt attached, therefore not tax deductable.

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

I also took cash, since I was doing a stopover somewhere and also traveling with my fiance.

I got 700,000 won. I think that's fair.

ontheway · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:10 am Post subject:

Before you sign, you should put in your contract that your return airplane ticket will be reimbursed in cash at the request of the teacher, should the teacher choose to remain in Korea or travel on to another destination. This should be easy to negotiate since the school has to pay you if you leave and go home. There's no real cost to the school.