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bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

A Korean friend of mine who has an ear in some of the government's current discussions about future teacher requirements has refused to tell me much of anything about the new rules coming down the pipe for teachers. Man, I've all but begged him to give me any information possible, but he won't.

The only interesting thing he mentioned is that there are discussions about added paperwork and responsibility for recruiters (as if there weren't enough already, right?). The proposal is that, in the future, non-government recruiters will share financial responsibility if a placed teacher runs, commits a crime, or other offense. In effect, this means that if a placed teacher runs, the recruiter will be held responsible for any bills the teacher left unpaid (including airfare).

So if the teacher turns out to be a bad egg, the school or parents of an injured student, can file a claim for compensation against the recruiter -- smooth and easy, without the need for hiring expensive lawyers.

This smacks of attempts to control the recruiting industry, possibly at the financial gain of a few "connected" individuals.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Do you expect they would pass such a law without making foreign recruitment illegal?

I wonder what is up their sleeve.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Somehow I feel that the actual goal behind all of these new measures is to:

A. Control the flow of money in the industry
B. Attempt to kill the hagwons

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

As soon as they can kill the hakwons we can all be happy. The losers will go home and stop coming here and the lifers here will make huge money from teaching English because of high demand. I hope the Hakwons die screaming and all those lazy fat cheating owners will actually have to work for a living instead of screwing the parents and teachers out of money. Death to the schools and death to the owners!!! Twisted Evil

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

I would think recruiters in Korea would be up in arms about this. Yeah I agree, recruiters outside Korea will have a field day with this.

There is no way to regulate recruiters given the fact some of them operate outside Korea. A bad idea from the beginning.

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

One thing is for sure... future announcements coming from the MOJ should be very interesting!

Optimus Prime · Joined: 05 Jul 2007

Wow. I can't believe the Hagwon Associations would take all this lying down.

Typhoon · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: Daejeon

I am interested to see what happens and how many of these rumors turn out to be true. It does appear that a lot of these measures are meant to hurt hagwons (I like that part of it). I don't think too many hagwons will suffer, they will just go from doing some illegal actions to soing a lot illegal actions. Immigration offices will be too lazy to enforce the new laws and things will stay the same in all likelihood.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:45 am Post subject:

what about teachers who find their own replacements? would they be responsible for the successors?

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul