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[Whitegirlinasia]

Anyone work at either of these places near Song-pa?

I've seen some pretty vicious stuff written about GKI, but it was all 2009 ish. Anyone work here? They have a suspiciously high salary of 2.5.
Olympic Park branch.

King's Kids I got an interview with through a recruiter. I'm about to talk to a teacher on the phone. They want to fly me out in a week, then ship me to Japan to get a visa. Not sure how I feel about that. The recruiter said the person they originally hired failed the medical check.

Feelings, thoughts, experiences?
Thanks

[Ocalmy]

I worked for the Olympic Park GKI in 2009 and it was great. In fact, I dropped by a few weeks ago just to say hello to my old director. Looks like they spent a lot of money remodeling the place, so I'm sure business is still good. I ran into people I worked with back then who still choose to work there. Several of my current friends worked for GKI back in the day and we all agree that it was a good place to start in Korea.

I chose them because they advertised directly and I was able to avoid dealing with shady recruiters. My starting salary in 09' with an English degree and zero experience was 2.3 --with overtime I always made over 2.5. Housing was the typical one room villa. Olympic Park area is a nice place to live. Relatively clean and quiet, although a little far from the action. Only draw back was that I had to work hard! I earned every baekwon of that curiously better than average salary. After one year I was ready to move on to public school. They always paid me on time, no surprises, overall a good place to work.