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[Saudiman]

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[Baluda]

I really don't know anything about the school, but I also saw their advertisement, and I would never work for somewhere in Korea paying so little.
24000000/ year for 20 hours a week? That only works out to 1.8 million won per month when you take into consideration that they include your severance pay in the over all salary. And unlike most colleges/universities that offer over 8 weeks + holidays, Yeungjin is only offering 30 days....
Why not just work for a public school where you would get at least 2.2 million won per month, plus one month vacation for a 22 hour work week?
Or better yet, just hold out for a better job...
Hope this helped...

[Saudiman]

Found a review on www.eslblacklist.com regarding a male teachers experience. The eslblacklist review makes for good reading and a warning.

[Baluda]

Good stuff Saudiman..
No use taking such a huge risk..I'm sure there are other great opportunities out there...best of luck!

[bigtexas]

Do not go there if you value your sanity.....I have never worked there but I have heard horror stories. Its pretty much a really bad hogwon with a college name attached to it.

[Saudiman]

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[Saudiman]

I'm bumping this topic that I started months ago because I was once again contacted (today) by the obsessive office manager of the FLI asking us to consider returning - doesn't seem to understand the word NO even though he has lived in the USA in the past. Be wary of ANY offer with Yeungjin! Thank God we're out!

[TheresaTheresa]

Was offered there in 2010. There was a mix-up where they thought they'd been sending me emails for new-starters that I was actually not receiving because I had not been added to the list. Knowing this the manager berated me by email as it was clearly my fault that I had not been added to the email list. I promptly withdrew my acceptance of their offer. No regrets.

[Saudiman]

Yeungjin College and its Foreign Language Institute is trying to hire again. I want to warn unsuspecting newbies or experienced folk that this position is not a good one - and here's why:

They will often request you go out to the Gyeongbuk English Village to teach classes when yet another teacher has run or has been fired on the basis of a Korean not "liking" them for one reason or another. This happens a lot.

Still, working there in the sticks is preferable than working in their main office on the Daegu campus. The Korean office manager speaks English fairly well, but uses it to verbally attack teachers he does not like.

I worked there for four months from May-Sept 2009 and found rude co-workers who verbally abused other teachers, causing one to flee to Canada and myself to leave after they confronted me with "letters" totally in Korean saying I was a bad teacher - well, how was I to know, if the manager didn't let me copy them and show them to Korean friends? Students told me I was a good teacher and they knew the management was lying, as were three co-workers (two Canadians and a New Zealander) who loved to come in hung over and red eyed in the mornings.
They weren't that young either - 29, 38 and 43. Time to stop those games, wouldn't you say? Especially if teaching kids.

Basically, I believe they hired me to teach Business English for the summer because yet another teacher ran when I had been there only two days.

WOW!

Don't get caught - there are far better places to begin your Korean teaching career.

[Bruce W Sims]

Eh........not directly connected with your particular placement, but a view that I have been forming as I do more and more research about placement.

Exactly how prevalent IS the anti-"Native Speaker-s" attitude among these various schools and institutions?

Since I am looking at the more rural placements I have been nosing around in those places away from the bigger population centers. I came a cross a blog by a teacher ( "BrianDeutsch Blogspot") who had been down in Jeollanam-Do and Gyeongsangnam-Do and was shocked at the characterizations of behavior on the part of managers, co-teachers and teachers! Terms like "hate" and "open resentment" were all over the place and the way the English Village was described both in condition and in function left me floored! What gives?

Am I going to have to put up with staff members with big chips on their shoulders just because I can speak/teach English? Comments please.

Best Wishes,

Bruce

[Saudiman]

Their June 1 job posting offers a "partially" furnished apartment with a view of the river. Yes, right next to a construction site with noise very early in the mornings. There was NO (and I repeat NO) furniture at all in the apartment - not even a bed! Manager said the toilet was furniture!

[Allthechildrenareinsane]

[Ramen]

well, look on the bright side, you will be called �professor.�

[some waygug-in]

Since the uni jobs seem to be the most coveted positions in Korea, the administration often are rude, abrasive and in some cases downright abusive of the foreign staff they hire.

Especially some of the lower tier unis, it seems they get an overly aggrandized opinion of themselves and have an attitude towards new hires
that can only be described as gestapo-esque.

Their sentiment seems to be; if you dumb wayguks want to work for us, you'd better grovel and lick our boots and like it.

Good luck.