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[scott1985]

Hi guys, I have just found out I have been rejected from EPIK. Mmy recruiter suggests I could apply for Ulsan MOE programme. Does anyone have any experience working on this programme?

I only have a basic 120 hour tefl certificate and have been working as a youth worker for the past few years. I am looking for a post that allows me to save to travel and offers some form of training.

scott

[Airborne9]

Do you know why you were rejected from EPIK?

Is EPIK not responsible for the NETs in Ulsan public schools? (expect for those who are not funded from EPIK)

[plchron]

I am guessing that you are using footprints, which has a deal with ulsan to supply teachers throughout the year, (like in between Epik's big hiring cycles). A bunch of us got here in August and have been here for 2 months. I have heard mixed reviews. SOme of us get hooked up, easy school, helpful co teachers, no Bueracratic BS. Some of us don't get hooked up. We have to show up during school holidays, we can't leave during lunch to go to the bank without using vacation time.

Ulsan MOE as a whole isn't bad, but in typical korean fashion they try to take a hands off role in anything related to us and tell us to fend for ourselves with our schools. It is a gamble in which situation you end up.

My school is all right. The location sucks, but the staff are nice to me. I come 1 minute before my start time and I leave the minute my 8 hrs. for the day is up. I am not asked to do anything ridiculus and when i deskwarm it is like free time as long as I stay on school property. Besides the location, no real complaints. Some people in my group got it a lot better than me, and some people got it a lot worse.

One guy is commuting between 2 schools in the middle of no where, working until 8 pm 4 days a week and they won't give him the rural allowance because it is not his primary school (even though the contract clearly states 'working at a rural school', no primary BS). If i got stuck with that I would have pulled a runner, left, got another visa, and came back and got a new job. It is a lot easier than most people think to do. SO go with the flow, see what situation you get, and bail if you don't like it.

They do pay on time though

[jamesd]

I'm thinking of bailing. I always have my bags packed and ready to bail.

This place is not my home. I'm hired to teach English and at the same time experience Korean culture with my family, but not to learn and practice it.

[Airborne9]

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