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jjurabong · Joined: 22 Jan 2003

So, I sent a complaint to the Canadian embassy, directing them to the website.

Any Americans like to do the same with their embassy? I'm sure, given security implications, that they would force the website to remove the passport #'s, wouldn't they?

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

This man is famous!

PaperTiger · Joined: 31 May 2005 Location: Ulaanbataar

I suggest flooding the e-mail of each site supporter listed above. I already sent one to worknplay.

Worknplay, man...I can't think of how many times I've used those clowns and now they're hanging the same people out to dry that put food on their table. Damn their eyes.

Give 'em hell. Send all of them a letter of outrage and promise to post their names in huge letters so that people no longer patronise them.

worknplay.com...put the knife in our hand, post your resume on our site!

betchay · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Location: Seoul

saw this on the 9 o'clock news...

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Would it bother everyone if it wa sans passport?

I mean, we have a site that often calls out recruiters and schools by name, why not a site that tells the other side? (i agree, the passport numbers are over the line, but names don't worry me too much. If I saw my name on there, I'd laugh first, and then post a comment second).

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

Actually, I don't think it's such a bad idea. It's true that there are a lot of dishonest hagwon owners, but there are also a lot of terrible teachers (how long, exactly, was the "freakiest waygook" thread??).

How many of you have had a terrible teacher in your school? What happened to that teacher? Sure, some of them did a runner, but how many more got LORs or good recommendations from the boss just to get them out of YOUR school?

jjurabong · Joined: 22 Jan 2003

Captain C,

My issue is really with the passport #.s It's a major violation of privacy, security, and is probably illegal.

My e-mail to the embassy focused only on that issue.

dulouz · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus

Somebody look at # 5 please. It looks really long. What does it say?

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

alabamaman · Joined: 25 Apr 2006

Here's the way I look at it. Hagwon owners have pow-wow's in their corner of the sky to plot ways with OJ Simpsons Defense Team to find effective ways to manuver around labor laws. The blacklist site is plenty. This website is open to teachers, recruiters, and hagwon owners. Everyone can express their views. A recruiter; Josh, came on here sometime ago to defend himself.

own_king · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Location: here

I found something written in English on this site. I wonder who this post is actually intended for and who wrote it:

작성자 : Twinclefemale 작성일 : 2006-08-16 조 회 : 207

Are koreans finally waking up to hard reality of those unqualitfied and even questionable individuals of those so-called native speaker of english teachers who don"t belong in the class rooms?! What i like to ask, t, all the concerned koreans is this..., Why do we hire those people who obviously have no warranted credential to be in class room from beginning?

If it was written by a foreigner, I think she proved her own point. If it was written by a Korean (as I suspect it had been), there is the reason for the need of English speakers qualitfied or unqualitfied in the class room. I guess, the English teacher is her class room, was an unqualitfied one. LOL - what a diminished point she makes here.

SHANE02 · Joined: 04 Jun 2003

alabamaman · Joined: 25 Apr 2006

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I don't see a problem with them doing this, apart from publishing passport numbers. I've blacklisted my ex-employer and he's free to do the same to me - I can provide a long list of Korean references who very much like what I bring to the classroom and I doubt he could provide one honest reference of a FT who's worked for him and was satisfied with the place.

As for recruiters, as long as they think that whitey can put in his 3 or 6 months so they get a commission, do you really think most would hesitate to place someone based on a list like this? And we all no that most employers here do almost no reference-checking at all, so I doubt this list will have much impact.

An added bonus is that, given the personal information needed to register for a Korean site, it would be much easier to sue someone for libel because of what's posted on the above site than it would on an American-based site.