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jklasdf
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 Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:41 am Post subject: Holidays for English Teachers |
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| Does anybody know what is the protocol for taking holidays in South Korea? I am thinking of applying for teaching jobs in Korea and would like to know about the holidays before I apply as I would need a week off in March to return home for a family event. Is there set school holidays apart from public holidays? |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| March is the first month of first semester. You won't get holiday then. It'll be easier to start the contract after your family event. Or ask for an unpaid leave, but considering you'd have just started, that'll be a seriously uncool thing to do. |
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pie eater
Joined: 07 Jul 2009
Location: The Bando
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Holidays for English Teachers |
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| Does anybody know what is the protocol for taking holidays in South Korea? I am thinking of applying for teaching jobs in Korea and would like to know about the holidays before I apply as I would need a week off in March to return home for a family event. Is there set school holidays apart from public holidays? |
Find a job first - Irish teachers aren't in much demand - especially in this recession - try next year eh? |
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jklasdf
Joined: 23 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: Holidays for English Teachers |
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| pie eater wrote: |
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| Does anybody know what is the protocol for taking holidays in South Korea? I am thinking of applying for teaching jobs in Korea and would like to know about the holidays before I apply as I would need a week off in March to return home for a family event. Is there set school holidays apart from public holidays? |
Find a job first - Irish teachers aren't in much demand - especially in this recession - try next year eh? |
What do you mean Irish teachers aren't in much demand? |
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pie eater
Joined: 07 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: Holidays for English Teachers |
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| pie eater wrote: |
| jklasdf wrote: |
| Does anybody know what is the protocol for taking holidays in South Korea? I am thinking of applying for teaching jobs in Korea and would like to know about the holidays before I apply as I would need a week off in March to return home for a family event. Is there set school holidays apart from public holidays? |
Find a job first - Irish teachers aren't in much demand - especially in this recession - try next year eh? |
What do you mean Irish teachers aren't in much demand? |
Koreans prefer the North American accent and an Irish teacher is pretty much bottom of the totem pole. Sorry to break this to you. I'm sure others will confirm the news. 
You are going to have a tough enough job getting even a crappy hagwon job in the middle of nowhere paddy - good luck! |
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andrewchon
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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jklasdf:
search for posters of vaticanhotline on this site. Put it simply: most Korean don't know that Ireland is an English speaking country. They don't know much about South Africa either, for that matter. Major reason for studying English is for TOEFL and business. For Koreans, Ireland is not the primary point of contact for either of them. Hence the preference for americanos. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Holidays for English Teachers |
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| What do you mean Irish teachers aren't in much demand? |
There's no such thing as an Irish (Gaelic?) teacher in K-land (well... perhaps one or two at universities). 
Irish, English teachers are discriminated against. |
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asmith
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: Holidays for English Teachers |
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| pie eater wrote: |
| jklasdf wrote: |
| Does anybody know what is the protocol for taking holidays in South Korea? I am thinking of applying for teaching jobs in Korea and would like to know about the holidays before I apply as I would need a week off in March to return home for a family event. Is there set school holidays apart from public holidays? |
Find a job first - Irish teachers aren't in much demand - especially in this recession - try next year eh? |
This isn't a recession. This is the cusp of a bone-crunching depression. The world lost half its capital overnight. Now every government seems to be running on stimulus fumes waiting for American consumers to start consuming.
Good luck with that. |
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pie eater
Joined: 07 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: Holidays for English Teachers |
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| asmith wrote: |
| pie eater wrote: |
| jklasdf wrote: |
| Does anybody know what is the protocol for taking holidays in South Korea? I am thinking of applying for teaching jobs in Korea and would like to know about the holidays before I apply as I would need a week off in March to return home for a family event. Is there set school holidays apart from public holidays? |
Find a job first - Irish teachers aren't in much demand - especially in this recession - try next year eh? |
This isn't a recession. This is the cusp of a bone-crunching depression. The world lost half its capital overnight. Now every government seems to be running on stimulus fumes waiting for American consumers to start consuming.
Good luck with that. |
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jklasdf
Joined: 23 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Kinda getting a bit of the topic here. Could you please only post a reply if it is related to the topic, as I do not want to hear about people's opinions and assumptions about there being no jobs for Irish people in Korea or about the recession. |
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pie eater
Joined: 07 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Kinda getting a bit of the topic here. Could you please only post a reply if it is related to the topic, as I do not want to hear about people's opinions and assumptions about there being no jobs for Irish people in Korea or about the recession. |
There are something like 500 teachers from the Republic of Ireland on an E2 visa in Korea and there are something like 10000 teachers from both America and Canada - do the maths man. You may not want to hear it but it is the truth. I can't find a job being British and I have a TEFL degree and Korean experience! You have neither and you are Irish - you have no chance on the outside of taking some crap hagwon job.
Have you done a search of these forums? Or are you expecting the kind people here to spoonfeed you all the information? |
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jklasdf
Joined: 23 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| pie eater wrote: |
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| Kinda getting a bit of the topic here. Could you please only post a reply if it is related to the topic, as I do not want to hear about people's opinions and assumptions about there being no jobs for Irish people in Korea or about the recession. |
There are something like 500 teachers from the Republic of Ireland on an E2 visa in Korea and there are something like 10000 teachers from both America and Canada - do the maths man. You may not want to hear it but it is the truth. I can't find a job being British and I have a TEFL degree and Korean experience! You have neither and you are Irish - you have no chance on the outside of taking some crap hagwon job.
Have you done a search of these forums? Or are you expecting the kind people here to spoonfeed you all the information? |
If you don't have any useful information then don't bother posting a reply. I have done loads of research and there are about 3000 Irish teachers in Korea now. The reason you probably can't get work is probably due to your attitude or maybe Koreans don't like British people. |
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pie eater
Joined: 07 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| pie eater wrote: |
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| Kinda getting a bit of the topic here. Could you please only post a reply if it is related to the topic, as I do not want to hear about people's opinions and assumptions about there being no jobs for Irish people in Korea or about the recession. |
There are something like 500 teachers from the Republic of Ireland on an E2 visa in Korea and there are something like 10000 teachers from both America and Canada - do the maths man. You may not want to hear it but it is the truth. I can't find a job being British and I have a TEFL degree and Korean experience! You have neither and you are Irish - you have no chance on the outside of taking some crap hagwon job.
Have you done a search of these forums? Or are you expecting the kind people here to spoonfeed you all the information? |
If you don't have any useful information then don't bother posting a reply. I have done loads of research and there are about 3000 Irish teachers in Korea now. The reason you probably can't get work is probably due to your attitude or maybe Koreans don't like British people. |
3000 Irish citizens teaching in Korea? You are an absolute liar! I want your source! I won't hold my breath though as I don't want to die anytime soon.
If I can't get a job in Korea at this moment in time - you have no chance - thats all I am saying. |
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asmith
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Kinda getting a bit of the topic here. Could you please only post a reply if it is related to the topic, as I do not want to hear about people's opinions and assumptions about there being no jobs for Irish people in Korea or about the recession. |
What's going on is truly unprecedented. A few years ago, you would have found a job within a couple of days.
Now it's getting bone dry. People can't get jobs in their home countries, so they are coming here.
I'm not saying that to depress you. Don't give up. Keep looking. But it is getting harder and harder due to the depression. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| quote] There are something like 500 teachers from the Republic of Ireland on an E2 visa in Korea and there are something like 10000 teachers from both America and Canada - do the maths man. |
The population of the USA and Canada combined is over 330 million while the population of Ireland is 5 million. According to your figures, if you do the maths you will find that there are considerably more Irish people here per population than any other nationality |
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