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trigger123
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
Location: TALKING TO STRANGERS, IN A BETTER PLACE
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| guangho wrote: |
At my hakwon, only two out of the four Korean English teachers spoke English and the daily routine was:
Come to work at 1 pm. Sleep.
Teach classes 3-5.
Shop for shoes online. Sleep.
People here (not just hakwons) believe that "face time"=work. |
agreed. 100%.
my co-teacher, at a GEPIK elementary, does everything humanly possible to stay out of the classroom and not teach. the variety of errands, that must be done at that very moment or the world will in fact end, never ceases to amaze me. i have never known any teacher, at home or abroad, so reluctant to interact with students but so keen to update her cyworld page or surf for baby clothes
and if i hear one more 'aigooooooo, him dul da chu gaes so!' ('argh, its so hard, i will die' or whatever) i will go k-k-k-k klucking ker-ahzy..
*rant finishee* |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: yes |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
| My hagwon is the opposite. The foreigners work hard and a lot of hours, but Korean teachers have a lot more responsibility, and they do a good job. God knows I wouldn't do their job for less than 3 mill a month. |
And yet they make only about 1 mill a month, or not much more than half the pay of the foreigner.
I work less hours than the Korean teachers who have been at this hagwon, though I hustle more, and certainly work ten times as much as the director who spends half his day playing online computer games. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| I have to stick up for most of the KTs at my old hogwan. The melodramatic head-in-arms-on-desk, oh-me-so-tired thing got a bit tiresome, but on the whole, with one noteable exception, they at least tried to work with the foreigners as well as they could. My biggest criticism is that they were so damn servile to the idiot boss. |
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paperbag princess
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: veggie hell
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:45 am Post subject: |
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when i was in the hagwan system, my k-co-teachers were not only enept, but mean, lazy and two-faced.
my current co-teacher is great, though we had some problems in the beginning. yay public school gig! |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| Is this a prestigious job for them or something? |
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