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[Tobias]

One can learn something new here everyday and not even log onto this site:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/06/117_26122.html

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Yujiwons are not allowed to hire FTs, but hagwons with kindergarten programmes are.

[harryh]

Things aren't completely clear in the article.

For example, are all foreigners not allowed to work in kindergartens? It states 'even those with an E-2 visa', how about F-2 and F-5 visa holders?

'Under Korean law, Kindergartens are banned from providing English classes'. Can foreigners (f-5 visa holders) teach sports or math for example?

[jbpatlanta]

If you have a F2, F4 or F5 visa you can work at a "Kindergarten" one without an English program.

I know this because I work at one part time in the mornings. If fact I had Daejeon immigration, which is the imigration office in the news article, come to the kindergarten and try to bust me. When they found out I had a F5 visa they apologized and left. They told me that they did not care where I worked.

With a F series visa immigration does not care where you work. With a E visa you can't work at a kindergarten.

[Mr. Pink]

I find it funny that under Korean law they can't teach English, yet most of them do. The one I do part-time work with has like 3 different part-timers come in to do some English classes. We all have F visas.

[CentralCali]

Why did you put kindergarten in quotation marks? That's the way the word is spelled.

[Tobias]

Because anyone can label and register his/her program as something other than 'kindergarten' and be just fine. There is at least one euphemism (with 5 & 6-year-old learners) here in my neck of the woods whose teachers are holders of E-2s. And yes, it's legal.

There are ways around legal-ese. Sometimes that means bribing. Sometimes that means using euphemisms.