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FistFace

I was out to dinner with some Korean friends, and a Korean professor working for Ewha Womens University. According to this teacher, the foreigners at Ewha are overworked, and very unhappy. This professor specifically noted complaints about grading lots of writing. This person also said that there is a lot of fighting between Korean and foreign staff members.

I had always considered Ewha to be one of the top places in Seoul to work at, and would like to work there some day. Now I'm not so sure.

Can anyone add some personal experience to this from the foreigner end of things?

bogey666 · Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Location: Korea, the ass free zone

mateomiguel · Joined: 16 May 2005

Maybe the disgruntled professor is disgruntled because he thinks that grading papers is getting in the way of his soju time?

I don't think I can understand how a professor can be upset about grading papers.

Young FRANKenstein

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

This is the first negative I've heard about it, too.

kain · Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Location: CheongJu

People seem to forget how easy this job actually is. So, you have to grade a few papers. Don't professors usually have less actual classes? I always laugh when my coworker complains about her Friday schedule being the longest. She has to work 7 hours on Friday, as opposed to the usual 4 or 5.
Get a fucking real job back home and work 8 hour days and probably nowhere near home.

Ukon · Joined: 29 Jan 2008

Complaining about a class room full of girls every day?....must be married.

kain · Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Location: CheongJu

FistFace · Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

The professor who told me all of this was Korean.

This individual was merely repeating the feedback he/she was getting from foreigners working at Ewha, and I'm guessing meeting information. It was not another foreigner complaining to me (a foreigner).

I'm surprised, too.

Next time I see this person (should be soon) I will ask if there is a language academy situation involved. That's one question I forgot to ask.

TECO · Joined: 20 Jan 2003

Heard that it was one of the better places to work, no caps on the number of contract renewals and an older, more experienced foreign English teaching faculty. Not sure of the name of the specific program, though.

But - which English program at Ewha?

There are often more than 1 or 2 different programs where EFL is taught in universities and they offer different pay, responsibiliites, benefits, and work conditions. A lot of universities have a "Unigwon" in addition to the faculty English Department, Foreign Language Dept. or academic English skills program.