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spinario · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: daegu

anyone have any information about this uni?

Relative to most, I've been in Korea for a short time, but the hagwon slave trade has lowered my already low expectations of working in Korea, and I am already as skeptical as an old curmudgeon.

The terms of this Kx offer piqued my interest, but I need some first-hand knowledge.

visviva · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: Daegu

I'm a little confused -- as far as I can tell, there is no "Gyeongju Catholic University."

Are you perhaps thinking of:

Gyeongju University, formerly Korea Tourism University?
Catholic University of Taegu, which operates a camp in Gyeongju?
Gwangju Catholic University?

spinario · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: daegu

apologies for the misunderstanding.

here's what the professor's footer reads

"Gyeongju English Village

Catholic Univerity of Daegu"

www.gev.ac.kr

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

spinario · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: daegu

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

spinario · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: daegu

krisinkorea · Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Location: Not too far from Seoul

I sure do. Let me tell you that the teachers that are there are usually great. However, I was screwed out of a months pay and had to call the Canadian embassy and the Korean district police to be allowed off the property when I wanted to leave because I had a death in my family. But, Koreans can take 2 weeks holidays. The director is a lying bastard and will try things like confiscating your passport, making you note when you leave the country as well as enter your dormitory room when ever the staff feels like it. Not every school is like this. It's true. If you're female, oh yeah, screaming at you is normal and bow down to him because he is by far the best educator in Korea.

krisinkorea · Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Location: Not too far from Seoul

Any female who has entered this university has run away willingly at the end of the contract. I had nightmares about Korea for about 6 months after my involvement with the asshole. Prof Han will screw you and he does lie and lies more to cover his lies. I am in the process of contacting affiliate overseas English universities of his ways. Simply because there are many foreign teachers going there every year. He did things to them like not getting health insurance, blaming them for student accidents, yadddi yadda. I think about going back to Korea, but simply cannot find it in myself to put up with shit like that again. I can live with the food, the ignorance, foreigners, etc, I cannot live with an ignorant bastard. Who cares anyways, I make twice the money I'd make in Korea now so really who cares. Their loss right? I'd just like to travel more and that's what happens....Korea does it to itself. My first school was great, I miss them. Have nothing but warm feelings about the staff there.

The director has a rich family who paid for his job. The guys that work there don't know what it's like to be a woman in Korea. It's worse than Canada. So they probably don't see why you have a problem when crazy boss freaks out on the women more than the men.