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Alias77
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject: Is Seocho a mirror of Gangnam? |
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| Seocho is right next to Gangnam. Do the same work conditions, ie high stress, high turnover, and clientele attitude issues apply to Seocho as well? How similar/disimilar would you say it is? |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| It's strange that you say high-turnover because it seems to me like public school jobs in Gangnam have probably the lowest-turnover rate in public schools. |
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Alias77
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| It's strange that you say high-turnover because it seems to me like public school jobs in Gangnam have probably the lowest-turnover rate in public schools. |
Actually, those aren't my words. I'm repeating what others have told me/insinuated. I was told that many do not finish their contracts in Gangnam because it is too stressful. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Alias77 wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| It's strange that you say high-turnover because it seems to me like public school jobs in Gangnam have probably the lowest-turnover rate in public schools. |
Actually, those aren't my words. I'm repeating what others have told me/insinuated. I was told that many do not finish their contracts in Gangnam because it is too stressful. |
Maybe in hagwons. The public schools are different, and no, Seocheo's conditions dont even come close to comapring with Gangnam's. |
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HamuHamu
Joined: 01 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Alias77 wrote: |
Actually, those aren't my words. I'm repeating what others have told me/insinuated. I was told that many do not finish their contracts in Gangnam because it is too stressful. |
To me that sounds like something that the director of a hagwan who had several runners due to poor management would say!
I mean, what on earth would make someone think that the "stressfulness" of Gangnam makes teachers not finish their contracts? Usually it is the incompetentness of an academy that makes people quit early. Given the apparent "higher standards" in Gangnam, logic would suggest to me that the academies would be better managed and as a result fewer teachers would run 
I just find that it is an absurd thing for someone to "insinuate" to you unless they didn't know what they were talking about. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| Well, there probably are a lot of hagwons that have a high-turnover rate in Gangnam, as Gangnam itself is Hagwon central. What you need to realize is that in Gangnam, and to a little lesser extent in Seocho, that hagwons are EVERYWHERE! If you look at any given building you will likely see a minimum of 1 hagwon, right up to 4-5 hagwons sometimes. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| Alias77 wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| It's strange that you say high-turnover because it seems to me like public school jobs in Gangnam have probably the lowest-turnover rate in public schools. |
Actually, those aren't my words. I'm repeating what others have told me/insinuated. I was told that many do not finish their contracts in Gangnam because it is too stressful. |
Maybe in hagwons. The public schools are different, and no, Seocheo's conditions dont even come close to comapring with Gangnam's. |
This reminds me, I know a girl who teaches only 14-15 classes per week ad makes 2.6 million a month at her public school and has a sweet officetel with a loft in a good location. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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Another friend of mine that teaches at a Gangnam Public School teaches 9 classes a week and not on Tuesday or Friday and gets paid 2.6 million.
(If you are reading this, I hate you   ) |
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