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Beej · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop

A while back there was a thread about the decline of this place. Now they are looking for a bunch of new teachers. 1.6!!!!!!! HAHAHA. they are offering 1.6 and they want three years experience or a Masters degree. And you must work on Saturdays.

This may be the worst job ever posted on Daves.

http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/korea/index.cgi?read=21305

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Maybe someone had a butterfinger and slipped. Maybe it's 2.6?

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

plus 800,000won bi-monthly housing allowance for a total of 2.0 per month.

Paji eh Wong · Joined: 03 Jun 2003

babtangee · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject:

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

They've managed to run the place into the ground. Remember what they USED TO offer...more vacation, higher pay, and a comparatively sparser contact hour load (with Wed off). The teachers were serious and they worked hard.

The sad, and perhaps illegal, thing is that Yonsei's FLI is still conning its students into thinking that they have top rated staff. They don't any more. Despite all it's proclamations, the FLI is just another money grubbing hakwon, and now it's not even as good as some of the bigger chains!

Pathetic. For people looking for a new job...STAY AWAY.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

looks like a pretty crappy job. I'm sure it's geared toward the desperately looking for a job types. And i've seen a few of them posting lately, so I imagine they'll fill their slots.

JZer · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Location: South Korea

For that 1.6 you also get to have the opportunity to teach children. The add for teaching university students is interesting. They are looking for 12 instructors. Red light that something is wrong.

JZer · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Location: South Korea

Unless one insist on living in Seoul why would anyone work for 1.6 to teach children. You can get 2.4 to 2.6 with housing. This is not like working at some FLI center teaching adults in hopes of moving up the ladder and finding a better uniwog or actual university job.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Isn't 1.6 pretty much the going rate for those, AHEM, sans actual degrees? Rolling Eyes

da_moler · Joined: 11 Nov 2006

I know a girl who is a student at Yonsei. She told me the teachers there are terrible. It's no surprise given the pay and conditions in the ad.

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

da_moler · Joined: 11 Nov 2006

I agree with you totally hellofaniceguy. In any country, any school treating you badly and ripping you off always has the hold over you that "we receive ten resumes a day", "you can be replaced tomorrow", etc. If people didn't accept it, they'd have to change, but there's always someone with problems and low self-esteem who'll accept anything, even this joke of a job in Yonsei FLI!

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Okay- some of you didn't get my point.

1.6 is the average salary offered to illegal teachers- those without degrees. This school was dumb enough to put it in writing.

Oh, and it's ILLEGAL teachers- no degrees, no skills, content to get drunk and do drugs, and happy to rat out others for the boss and kiss butt- who do a GREAT DEAL to help hogwan owners keep salaries down and quality low.

da_moler · Joined: 11 Nov 2006

wylies99, I can't agree. Yonsei FLI is asking for teachers with BA degree and a lot of experience, or an MA. Do you really think they are employing people with neither??

If you add the housing allowance, the salary is not much worse than places like Pagoda that don't offer housing, and of course Yonsei offers more vacation and, possible, better uni-type experience for the resume.