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| Which hagwon has the worst reputation in Korea? |
| Wonderland |
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58% |
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| Kids Herald |
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4% |
[ 3 ] |
| EWHA ALS |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| (S)lave (L)abor (P)rogram |
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8% |
[ 6 ] |
| St. Andrew's |
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17% |
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| LCI Kid's Club |
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5% |
[ 4 ] |
| Kids College |
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6% |
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garykasparov
Joined: 27 May 2007
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 Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:27 am Post subject: Which hagwon has the worst reputation in Korea poll. |
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| This is for statistical purposes only. Feel free to add comments that will educate new teachers. |
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Treefarmer
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:23 am Post subject: |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| This thread won't make it far as those names are big players in putting money into old Dave's pockets. Shoot, if I were running this joint, this thread would be removed immediately. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| This thread won't make it far as those names are big players in putting money into old Dave's pockets. Shoot, if I were running this joint, this thread would be removed immediately. |
I would still disagree with your decision. |
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garykasparov
Joined: 27 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| This thread won't make it far as those names are big players in putting money into old Dave's pockets. Shoot, if I were running this joint, this thread would be removed immediately. |
Dave will always find revenue from other schools. I would not want to be associated with schools that violate teachers rights on a consistant basis. Why shouldn't they be exposed? |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Only Wonderland has created the best selling novel.
Escape from Wonderland. |
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oxfordstu
Joined: 28 Aug 2004
Location: Bangkok
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah I voted Wonderland as well --- plenty of horror stories. I'm surprised Little America isn't up there. I had a collegue that worked there and she claims that they made her change diapers between classes. |
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garykasparov
Joined: 27 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| oxfordstu wrote: |
| Yeah I voted Wonderland as well --- plenty of horror stories. I'm surprised Little America isn't up there. I had a collegue that worked there and she claims that they made her change diapers between classes. |
How much was she paid to change diapers? |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
Only Wonderland has created the best selling novel.
Escape from Wonderland. |
And let's not forget about the Geojedo "Wonder School"  in Shawn Matthews' memoir Island of Fantasy.
I had a pretty horrendous experience with a Kid's Herald School, so bad that even the teachers from the SLP and the Wonderland up the street felt bad for us. Still, I voted for Wonderland as having the worse reputation because it's the only place I've ever known to expect their FTs to keep teaching while the hogwon was on fire.
Wonderland is not the only craptacular hogwon chain to inspire the muse, another school entirely (not a poll option) managed to inspire the literary masterpiece I Came to in Geumhodong by Dave Hazzan. It's available here, you can buy it in softcover or download it for free. |
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Whistleblower
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Still, I voted for Wonderland as having the worse reputation because it's the only place I've ever known to expect their FTs to keep teaching while the hogwon was on fire. |
Why am I not surprised? A Wonderland Hagwon on fire and the teachers forced to teach.
Imagine that the hagwon got gutted and the students and teachers died, now that would have made headline news. But I imagine that the burden of blame would be on the deceased teachers rather than the Korean staff with a school like Wonderland! |
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garykasparov
Joined: 27 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| I suspected Wonderland would get the most votes. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| Was it really a novel? |
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garykasparov
Joined: 27 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Atavistic wrote: |
| Was it really a novel? |
I Came To In Geumho-dong
(a novel)
by Dave Hazzan
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_46/646000/646510/3/print/646510.pdf?fForceSave=1
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The next night it got worse. James�s life in Korea had gone from great to fine to bad over the year. When he had agreed to the second contract two months earlier it had been with the hope Kommandant Chang would mellow out, but she didn�t. She got worse and James was starting to believe Stacey was right. Hegemon didn�t care if Kommandant Chang offended everyone and made the hagwan miserable. Why would he? The Korean teachers, many of whom had next to no grasp of English, were easily replaced. So what if the school had a higher turnover rate than McDonald�s? With no jobs for grads,
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new hagwans not paying and the economy tanking into a SARS and Iraq war fuelled bottomless pit, there were always new Korean teachers. The foreign teachers, paid more than lawyers but chained to their classrooms thanks to their E-2 visa regulations, weren�t going anywhere. So Kommandant Chang could stay. Plus along with Kommandant Chang was his dislike of Hegemon, the long hours and split shifts, the dearth of marijuana, his weight which was increasing, his tolerance for Korean idiosyncrasies which was decreasing and his inability to get laid. It all made him mad. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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Wonderland. Even a brief interview there felt like a trip behind the iron curtain: surveillance cameras everywhere, and the contract reserved the right to rob you of more money than you actually ended up with.
But how could you leave out Ding Ding Dang? A massive chain specialising in split shifts, tyrannical bosses, a "reward bad behaviour policy" and safe home to the worst delinquents Korean society can produce. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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