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kimcheeking
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 Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: excessive holidays |
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| Medic wrote: |
| With all your spare time don't you guys pick up some extra work on the side. |
Because teaching privates is illegal and my free time is needed for my family and studying. I would work extra if my school would authorize it and I got a stamp from immigration. That would only happen after I finish studying though. |
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Canadian Teacher
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: excessive holidays |
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| rudyflyer wrote: |
Basiclly the inmates are running the assylum here. Yeah we have declining enrollments and they need the students but this is getting crazy no discipline here.
this going on at any other univs.? |
This goes on at my uni but not quite that bad. Private unis are a business. In the Korean model of business keeping people happy is more important than the quality of your of the service you deliver. Thus, the kids are allowed to take off for MT any time they want to keep them happy.
Of course, eventually the lack of academic pursuit will udermine the university in its ratings but Koreans are not known for their long term thinking skills or abilit to form a reasoned opinion.
It took me about a year and a half to realise that education is the lowest priority at a Korean university. Nobody really cares much and long as your students are happy.
You have to ask youself this: "What job in the world could be so insanely easy? Decent pay, low hours no rent and spend three months year on the beach?"
I am not going back to a high school in Canada when I can do almost nothing here.
That your university is having enrolment problems would never be linked to lax acamdemic standards in the mind of the administration. |
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palkorea
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: Jeonnam
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 6:25 am Post subject: do you get paid for your 'paid holidays'? |
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we're having a big problem at our uni. our contract says we get paid vacation and paid korean holidays.
all of our foreign teachers are working a lot of overtime right now, and all those holidays in may killed us! we think that we should still get paid the overtime even when there is a holiday. of course, when we asked about this, they told us 'no...it's not overtime when you don't teach. we still give you your base salary....?
also, do you think it's strange for your overtime pay to be less than what you make per hour in your base pay?
i'm just wondering what's going on at other unis... |
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