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garykasparov
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 Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject: GEPIK renewal- how much for plane ticket? |
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| My contract is up in one month and I re-signed for another year. I'm not going to take the plane trip home to Chicago, but how much will I receive for the plane ticket? I need to know about the airline ticket price because I don't want to be cheated. I'm wondering if I should get at least 1.5 for it. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Mu understanding is that if you don't take the "home leave" you don't get the airfare.
Mind you I have no solid information or experience on this point it is just my understanding. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
Mu understanding is that if you don't take the "home leave" you don't get the airfare.
Mind you I have no solid information or experience on this point it is just my understanding. |
i thought so too. you can always try to get a refundable ticket, fill out the form at your school for airfare reimbursement, then return your ticket after you get the money. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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If it's anything like EPIK then if you don't take the flight they'll give you 400 000 won. That's actually written into my contract. But me thinks that GEPIK is completely different.
It seems to be changing. A few teachers I know, didn't take the flight, got an email confirmation of the flight. Cancelled it. Laid low for the two weeks. Then handed the confirmation in after the holiday period. Got all the money for that. Very very sneaky.
Now I think they expect you to submit the boarding pass stubs and confirmation because this problem happened a number of times before. |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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It's in the contract that they will pay you the cost of the ticket home. Even if you don't go.
Read your contract. 07/08 |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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4. In the event renewing Employee travels to his/her home country, Employee will be reimbursed for his/her round-trip airfare based on economy class air-fare of the most direct flight available from Incheon to the airport nearest to Employee�s residence within 2 weeks upon return to Korea.
5. In the event renewing Employee travels to another country with a shorter distance than that of home country may be reimbursed for their round-trip airfare pursuant to the foregoing 4.
6. In the event Employee does not travel to either his/her home country or another country other than home pursuant to the foregoing 3, Employee will be given the amount of money equivalent to the round-trip airfare within 2 weeks upon renewal of Contract. Vacation is used in the manner pursuant to the foregoing 3. |
Think this is it. I think they'll generally reimburse you the amount for a Korean Air direct ticket to the nearest airport near your hometown. This is the figure they go off. So it would be more in the region of 2 million I would have thought. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| mrsquirrel wrote: |
It's in the contract that they will pay you the cost of the ticket home. Even if you don't go.
Read your contract. 07/08 |
You don't have to go home but you must go:
"In the event that the employee travels to his/her home country (or
another destination which is equal to or less than the distance to his/her
home) pursuant to the foregoing ②, Employee's round trip airfare shall be
reimbursed by Employer after Employee's return to Korea. The round trip
airfare for Employee's flight shall be based on an economy class airfare
of the most direct flight available."
EPIK contract Article 10 Paragraph 3 |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
| mrsquirrel wrote: |
It's in the contract that they will pay you the cost of the ticket home. Even if you don't go.
Read your contract. 07/08 |
You don't have to go home but you must go:
"In the event that the employee travels to his/her home country (or
another destination which is equal to or less than the distance to his/her
home) pursuant to the foregoing ②, Employee's round trip airfare shall be
reimbursed by Employer after Employee's return to Korea. The round trip
airfare for Employee's flight shall be based on an economy class airfare
of the most direct flight available."
EPIK contract Article 10 Paragraph 3 |
Last year my school asked for a quote from Korean Air to my home country, they deposited that much in my account because I chose not to go home. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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I quoted directly form the online EPIK contract.
If you got re-imbursed good on you but it would be exception rather than the rule.
I would like to know the source of the contract clauses from the post above mine though.
http://epik.knue.ac.kr/sub2/sub2_4.asp |
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Dome Vans
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Interesting GEPIK is better than EPIK.
Seriously I am regretting re-signing with EPIK. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
You don't have to go home but you must go:
"In the event that the employee travels to his/her home country (or
another destination which is equal to or less than the distance to his/her
home) pursuant to the foregoing ②, Employee's round trip airfare shall be
reimbursed by Employer after Employee's return to Korea. The round trip
airfare for Employee's flight shall be based on an economy class airfare
of the most direct flight available."
EPIK contract Article 10 Paragraph 3 |
Mine's exactly the same. I'm thinking I might go somewhere that's less distance, but more expensive. 
I've noticed that for '08/'09, EPIC has reworded this clause to read "...equal to or less than the cost...". |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Dome Vans wrote: |
If it's anything like EPIK then if you don't take the flight they'll give you 400 000 won. That's actually written into my contract. But me thinks that GEPIK is completely different.
It seems to be changing. A few teachers I know, didn't take the flight, got an email confirmation of the flight. Cancelled it. Laid low for the two weeks. Then handed the confirmation in after the holiday period. Got all the money for that. Very very sneaky.
Now I think they expect you to submit the boarding pass stubs and confirmation because this problem happened a number of times before. |
400,000? |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
Mu understanding is that if you don't take the "home leave" you don't get the airfare.
Mind you I have no solid information or experience on this point it is just my understanding. |
This is not true according to my contract. According to mine, you get up to 7/10 of the economy roundtrip ticket on KAL or that amount in cash if you decide not to go on the vacation. |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Well, that was interesting to look at. Thanks for posting it. One thing that seems to go backwards (regarding desirability) in this new GEPIK contract is that there is NO LIMIT on the the number of weeks you can be required to work during the semester breaks. The only limit I see is that you can't be required to work more than 20 hours in any single week during the break. Not good. |
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