Korean Job Discussion Forums

[pkang0202]

I left my old school a week early to take a job in Seoul. I gave them 2 months notice and wrote it down. They also wrote me a referral to take to my new school. The coteachers, Principal, and VP all knew I was leaving. The school office knew I was leaving.

Low and behold, I recently hear that my old principal has been telling people (coteachers at other schools in the area) that I did a midnight run without telling anyone, and came right back to Korea to get a job in Seoul paid more money.

Korea has pretty strict laws regarding slander right? Anything I can do about this?

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Try to get it in an email. Hanmail and daum accounts cannot be made anonymously, and libel is a lot easier to prove than slander. Ask a teacher at your present school you're on good terms with to email the principal for an explanation of your leaving.

But, remember that in Korea damages are awarded according to reputation. Someone whose reputation is worth a million bucks saying shit about someone whose reputation is worth shit (old fart of a judge's point of view) will get you shit.

[Ut videam]

They do have pretty strict defamation laws... your problem will be in proving your case, I suspect. If you can show something in writing (in print, posted online, etc.) that'd be one thing... but good luck getting someone, let alone multiple witnesses, to testify against your former boss.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[KYC]

Wow...unbelievable. I too have plans to leave my school 1-2 weeks early. I will use them as my vacation days though. I'm hoping they don't talk squat about me!

[poet13]

Photocopy your referral 250 times, and post it everywhere in a three block radius of your school.

It will cost you a saturday, but I bet you'll feel really good about it when you're done.