Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mike123_ca]

Do you know a school that is overcharging students or not paying taxes.

Now there is a new goverment service being offered,
Maybe they are deducting tax from your salery, but not sending it to the government.

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/07/117_48011.html

Tipsters can send information by letter, phone and Web site of the ministry, www.mest.go.kr. Tipsters will receive the cash once the information is confirmed.

I bet the government forgot to tell the hagwon association about this.

[Mr. Pink]

All those threads about turning in illegal teachers...finally we'll get some interesting posts. Those doing the ratting and those doing the illegal deeds.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I could probably rat out every hagwon and English tutor I know in my hick town for something or other but would I ever become unpopular around town in a hurry.

[meangradin]

It's starting to feel a lot like '97

I wonder if a foreigner can collect these rewards.

[Otherside]

You could go into almost any neighbourhood and write down the names of all the hagwons you see. Hand that list to the authorities, and I reckon you'll have a success rate of over 90%.

How many hagwons do you know which aren't doing ANYTHING illegal?

[TheUrbanMyth]

[lifeinkorea]

[pocariboy73]

It's not just hagwons that are getting fined. So are private teachers.

My wife's Korean sister just got busted for private tutoring in her home as she wasn't registered with the tax dept.. An ajuma in the Apt. complex ratted her out and got a 2,000,000 won reward. Apparetly the Lee government is conducting a nation wide crackdown on tax cheats in the education industry including both hagwons and private teachers. People who turn in the hagwons or teachers get rewards.

[FistFace]

It really angers some people in Korea when teachers make more per month than a mid-level manager at a company. It makes a mockery of the unsaid confuscist hierarchy and entitlement due to upbringing and good-ole'-boy networks ensuring that certain children from certain families make more money than others.

I wonder how much LMB cheated in taxes last year?

[AgentM]

Sounds like a good strategy for the gov't, not so great for FTs doing illegal privates.

[Smee]

Yep, Suncheon has banners up again telling locals to be on the lookout for native speaker English teachers giving private lessons:

http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/07/suncheon-back-on-lookout-for-illegal.html

Not as bad as the witch hunt with the "You are being watched" signs in Daejeon last year:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=88076


Or the sting operations in local kindergartens (also in Daejeon):
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2008/06/its-whitey-season-in-daejeon.html

As I mentioned on an earlier thread, when you add this kind of stuff to the recruitment of more Korean English teachers, the use of Indians, Filipinos, and other foreigners to teach English, and the xenophoboic garbatge in the media lately, you really start to be convinced that they're trying to poison the market and get rid of the trend of NSETs in every school and hagwon.

[T-J]

[lifeinkorea]

[T-J]

^^^From the sound of it, you were not here in 1997.

[CoolBoss]

^^^^

So for any of you who were here in 1997, what can we expect from this? Should we be expecting to deal with a nation of vigilantes, or will there just be a few money-hungry snitches sniffing around for tutors?

I've heard stories about when the government paid citizens for reporting traffic violations (people with their cameras ready at every busy intersection), and if that's the reaction we can expect towards this new "business opportunity"... well, then that's one more incentive to get out of this country.