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[Sapa]

It's getting to the time of year where I have to seriously consider resigning my contract and staying here for another year. I just have a few questions for those that have resigned with their hagwons.

Did you get any time off between contracts? I am thinking it would be nice to have a couple of week break at the end of the contract and start the new one when I return.

Did your boss pay for a return flight from and back to Korea? I may want to go home for 2 weeks. I was thinking the boss could pay for my flight seen as they would have had to do this anyway and pay for a new teacher to fly out if I wasn't resigning. So that shouldn't make any difference to him.

Any experience of this?

[mld]

Recently at my school four of us have re-signed/extended. Two did it for a whole year and the others did it for 6 months.

The two that re-signed for a year, both got plane tickets home and a week off (I believe the school was good enough to give them a Friday to Sunday night flight to give them two weekends at home).

Myself and the other teacher who re-signed for 6 months were given 1 plane flight (not a return ticket) each and the option of going home for a week. The other teacher took that option and the school bought her a round trip ticket (but she will have to pay for her flight home). I declined the trip home and was given their equivalent of a one way ticket home (approximately 800,000 won) on my next paycheque.

As far as I know, the airfare home and the time off is pretty standard. Details may vary from one school to the next. By re-signing you save the school a significant amount of money (recruiter fees) as well as the effort of training a new teacher. Our school was happy to keep us and I would assume most non-exploiting schools would do the same... (and since you want to re-sign, I'm assuming you enjoy working there).