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iskenderteas
Joined: 10 Sep 2010
Location: Portland, Maine, USA
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 Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:52 pm Post subject: Gyeonggi English Vilage Paju |
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Hello,
Has anyone had any experience with the English Village in Paju?
My fiancee and I are taking a job there and were wondering what people had t say about it. We appreciate your helpful and honest feedback.
Thank you. |
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OculisOrbis
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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youtuber
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:24 am Post subject: |
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You are taking a job there and you are getting feedback NOW?
Aren't you doing things backwards?
So I guess you can't blame anybody when you find out that Paju is in the middle of nowhere, a lot of your coworkers are a bunch of psychotic Russians, and that you are essentially an entertainer? |
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ssmith
Joined: 23 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:56 pm Post subject: don't listen to youtuber |
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| Take it from a guy who worked there. It is quite an experience and it takes a certain person to work there as it is not a typical school and at times you feel like you are an edutainer more than a teacher. Also, you feel like a celebrity as you are the attraction at the place. In terms, of teaching sometimes you teach the same lesson many many times so if you hate repetitiveness it is not the job for you. You will see students of various ages and english ability. One class may be super smart and then the next class trying to do dongships to you (depening on their age) and no english. Ask what dongships are and then you will know to watch your back. |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 4:21 pm Post subject: Re: don't listen to youtuber |
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| ssmith wrote: |
| One class may be super smart and then the next class trying to do dongships to you (depening on their age) and no english. Ask what dongships are and then you will know to watch your back. |
Oh my, a dongship?!!? What in the world is that? I've heard of, and experienced, a ddongchim (the poop-needle), but never a ddongship. |
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lichtarbeiter
Joined: 15 Nov 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| youtuber wrote: |
| ...Paju is in the middle of nowhere... |
Kind of. But there's a bus that picks you up right outside the village and has you in the Hongdae area in about 45 minutes to an hour. It's not "in the middle of nowhere" in the sense that teaching in a rural area of an outer province is.
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| a lot of your coworkers are a bunch of psychotic Russians |
There are currently two Russians working at the Paju EV. They are both ladies working non-teaching jobs, and I have yet to see either of them exhibit any type of psychotic behaviour. It must be coming soon because they're Russian, right? 
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| ...and that you are essentially an entertainer? |
You don't "entertain" unless you take a job here as an edutainer, which is primarily for people with drama or theatre backgrounds. I (along with the vast majority of the foreign employees here) am a teacher, and all I do is teach PPT-based lessons for 8th graders. I can tell you that you will do exponentially more entertaining if you work in a kindy/elem hagwon like I was in last year.
Please do a little more research before spewing the typical misinformation regarding EV that abounds in these forums. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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I think a lot of the EV info is out dated. Supposedly things have changed there quite a bit.
Years ago, there were A LOT of crazy Russians working there. I went once with my school. I did not like it.
But it sounds like it has improved and might not be a bad place to start.
OP, post your contract on the Contract Sticky (delete your names and the school's names and anyone else's names) to have it reviewed. |
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3DR
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject: Sorta bad reference....what to do? |
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| nm...meant to make a new thread and responded to this instead |
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