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[jaykimf]

Real reality; Your employer would be foolish to give you a raise. When you signed or resigned your contract, you agreed to your salary. If you are willing to work for that amount it would be stupid to pay more. Would paying you a higher salary make you a better teacher? Of course not. The only reason to offer a higher salary would be to attract someone who is more qualified to replace you. The reason you stay on in Korea year after year is because you can't find a better position anywhere else in the world. Your service is more highly valued in Korea than it is anywhere else in the world.
If you spent as much time on your PHD as you do on your whining about Korea research, you might make something of yourself. How much of your research has been published in academic journals? Instead of making any effort to improve your situation all you do is whine about how unfair life is.
You are not a real professor. You are a part time adjunct instructor. Instead of comparing your salary to Korean full professors, why don't you compare it to Korean part ime instructors? That's 22,870 w per hour according to the figures you supplied. Don' t you make more than that? If you think you are qualified to be a real professor, why did you agree to take a lesser job? Do universities in the U.S., Canada etc. think you are qualified to be a full professor? If you can't get a real professors job anywhere else in the world , why should you expect Korea to give you one? We all know that Korean Universities have relatively low standards. One of the clearest indications of that is the number of foreigners hired who would be unemployable at the university level anywhere else.

[Homer]

[Real Reality]

jaykimf and Homer,
I appreciate your posts. Have a great year.

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