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ratslash
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 Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:34 am Post subject: |
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privates are illegal for foreigners to do. simple as. no loop holes, nothing. you can open a business that specialises in private lessons, but again, you come back to the investment issue.
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I am sure that thi sis right. However, the place that I worked last year (owned by an American) hired about 5-6 westerners who worked in the office during the day, textbooks, press releases, annual reports, etc.
In the early morning (7:30am) and later afternoon (6pm), however, most of these western office workers would go off to various offices around the business district (LG, Nike, Hennessy, etc) and teach English to groups of office workers in their own offices.
My boss was forever trying to sell his product (i.e. us), because there was such a high turnover rate in classes. We would get a new contract with some company, teach there twice a week for a few months and then invariably loose the contract. Seemed to be a never ending cycle.
I am sure that what we were doing was not entirely above board, but it was going on in the middle of Samsung-dong. As far as I know, they are still doing business in the same way. |
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and your point? the person has said that they think this is 'not entirely above board'. this is probably illegal if you are using westerners to teach private business lessons. their visa would state that they are only allowed to teach in one place, however, they are going to many different places to teach.
the reason for the high turnover, which i noticed when i was doing business classes, is that the manager thinks it is great idea to improve his or her staff's level of english, and they employ a foreigner, usually through a company like this. unfortunately, because of the high work load and high office hours of korean employees, they can't maintain the lessons, therefore the contract is stopped. |
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