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Daechidong Waygookin · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

I was kidding.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

I have been asked in many strange situations..
in a restaurant the waitress asked me to teach her daughter..
in a department store NORIBANG I was playing with some kids in there running around the jungle gym like a 7 year older and this one monther asked me to teach her daughter.. guess she liked the fact that this waygook is running around with 20 kids in a noribang and all having fun.

ummmm I have been asked in subways, on the street, at the gym, and a few other times..
ummmm oh also I got asked outside the next door neighbours house.. OHH excuse me are you Teacher? can you teach my two sons please..
haahah..
I took the majority of the jobs I was offered.. they never last long. so might as well take them for the short time they are there..

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

Noribang?

You mean noritop. That's playground.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

Intrepid · Joined: 13 May 2004 Location: Yongin

I had a smamy guy approach me when I was out walking the dog last Friday. After an unctuous greeting he asked if I tutored students. I said no. He asked if I'd like to, that he could introduce people to me. I said no, but I asked what kind of money I could make. 500,000 per month for 20 hours or so. Wow, dude, 25,000 won per hour to risk my neck? The point is HIS cut--he's probably taking 70-80,000 per hour from every foreign teacher introduction.

The Man known as The Man · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:51 am Post subject:

panthermodern · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: Taxronto

If you, yourself, break your contract you can hardly expect nor complain if your contract is broken ...

Teaching "privates" under an E-2 visa is: illegal.

The law may, or may not, be stupid, but, it still is the law.

EVERY contract I have ever seen has a clause about and warns about teaching "privates" ...

The "right" or "wrong" of teaching "privates" is irrelavant. If you came to Korea on an E-2 visa you are contracted to NOT teach privates ... thus you accepted that fact and gave your word that you would not.

Personally I think the LAW is stupid, but, I have agreed to follow the LAW as a condition of my visa.

I gave my word.

To teach private classes (under the above conditions) is to break your word.

Period.

pauly · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Location: Incheon

Just out of curiousity, is it illegal to teach privates with an F-4 visa?

Bozo Yoroshiku · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

Cohiba · Joined: 01 Feb 2005

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Bozo Yoroshiku · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: ONLY PRIVATES!

Cohiba · Joined: 01 Feb 2005

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Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject:

Cohiba, you sound like some people I had arrested when I was a policeman. "everything is legal if you don't get caught." People do get caught - maybe not that many, but it does happen. I don't condemn people if they want to do privates and break the law, but it comes across as offensive when someone calls other people "losers" for not doing the same (especially when they advocate criminal activity Smile

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Cohiba, I don't teach privates for two reasons. One - because it is illegal and 2- because I don't want to give up my free time. It sounds like you want to do it for the money - does greed dictate your every activity? Or just your criminal ones? Smile