Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Fofazoju]

Ok, I am ALL for saving our resources and I think we tend to overheat back in the western world but it is 46 degree outside (7 celcius) and I have NO heat in my room. I swear it's only a few degrees warmer in here than it is outside. To make matters worse, in the halls, they have the doors WIDE open! I mean COME ON!

I am in a t-shirt, a sweater turtleneck AND my winterjacket and I am still bloody frigid! My nose is running, my hands are ice. I have to keep taking breaks to blow hot air on my hands to write this post. Seriously, I feel like I am teaching in a school in North Korea because you KNOW the principal is sitting pretty in his office all nice and cozy with his fancy heater cranked. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I am not saying crank the heat so we can all wear tank tops and shorts. But seriously, this is getting insane. And I am told I have to wait till December 1!!! 3 more weeks!!!

I know there is nothing I can do - I am just complaining. And wondering if other teachers have gotten the heat turned on in their school and how to go about doing it. ALl I can think about is how cold I am!!

[JungMin]

The heating/air conditioning system in my school was 'locked', but in the summer I saw one of the office dudes press the buttons to unlock it. So, my class and my office both have heat!!! Mornings are getting cold....Afternoons are alright, but I need the heat for a few hours in the morning. Someone locked it again yesterday, but I just unlocked it again this morning...hahaha, fuckers!!

If people need the code, I will go and look to see what the buttons are.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[ulmaeri]

In one of my lessons, we had a dialogue from the Christmas Carol. I introduced the students to the word 'miser' and describe Scrooge. I wonder if I had mentioned that he was said to have done the same thing, 'leave the heat off to save money,' if my students would have made the mental connection or not. I decided not too. I just dress warmly, but my students are all complaining. I feel a little sorry for them.

[nomad-ish]

luckily for me, i'm in an office with 2 head teachers, so the heat is running however my classes and English Zone are freezing, with no chance of heating for at a couple weeks

[Dome Vans]

In the teachers room at one of my middle schools they have plonked a gas fire stove thing in the middle of the room. You should see the rest of the teachers huddled round it, like Russians round a guy sucking a peppermint. Incredible. I came to school in my budgie smugglers today, just to hammer home just how hot it is.

[nobbyken]

It's the kids I feel sorry for.

[Dome Vans]

[TexasPete]

In the first school i worked at in Korea, they almost never put the heat on. I basically had crazy dance time in the beginning of class to warm up their bodies and heat the classroom with the most precious source of heat on Earth...children's smiling faces. It was the only way i could keep warm.

[JungMin]

[KYC]

They finally decided to turn the heat on at my school. I'm all the way up north so its very cold here. The heaters are on yet they leave all the windows and doors open. I close the windows in my classroom and they think I'm crazy.

[sojourner1]

Yea, I noticed that hot water is turned off for Winter nights too. My hot water in the apartment was on all day everyday all Summer long, but in the past 2 weeks, it's ice cold by 9PM. So much for my comfy late night showers that save me time early in the mornings.

At school, there is no heat or hot water, so it's chilly. We have to keep the windows open, because horrid sewer gases emit from the classroom sinks which smells like super funky BO or rotting feces.

When it gets freezing cold, we use portable LPG gas heater units which worried me about being a safety risk such as if the gas line fittings or a burner were to go faulty causing a big explosion.

[mehamrick]

I had to endure the winter last year with no heat after me and my co-teacher begged for it to no avail.. I straight up told them this year since I am traveling from class to class no heat in my office call me at home. I refuse to sit in the icebox again.

[bassexpander]

The heat in our offices (as well as the AC) doesn't work unless they flip some switch somewhere.

They do it to save costs and energy.

So what do we do? We all have electric heaters, which cost far more to run, blazing away heating our rooms.

Korean logic.

[spliff]

In my office we are running a heater and it;s toasty, no heat in the classrooms as yet, it's not cold enough. I'd hardly describe the weather as "Freezing" I'm just in one of my usual custom made oxford shirts and a wool sweeter and I'm fine outside and in the classroom.