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[sarahp]

Hello All!

Recently I interviewed with Plus Wonderland in Suncheon City. Despite my best efforts, I haven't been able to find anything about this school online. I interviewed with one of the foreign teachers who claimed to have been at the school for 7 years and yet there is no word on this school! Money and accommodation-wise everything seems to be in order except that I cannot find anything about this school. I asked my recruiter to get me an email for another of the foreign teachers but she gave me the email of my interviewer as well as a contract from Wonderland.

I am aware that the Wonderland chain of schools is on a few blacklists as a pretty nasty place to work but this particular school is never mentioned.

Is anyone familiar with this school at all?

[Underwaterbob]

I don't know about Suncheon specifically, (never even heard of Suncheon until now...) but I've known a number of people who worked at the local Wonderland who were paid on time and enjoyed it enough. Suncheon is just about the exact same size as the city I live in only significantly further away from Seoul. Be warned, it might be a city of 265'000 on paper, but you will be in the Korean equivalent of the boonies.

[Porksta]

Suncheon is easily the most boring city in Korea, if not the world. There is nothing to do.

[sarahp]

My major concern isn't really that the area would be boring but that the school has no reputation. It has been a week since I was sent the contract and my recruiter is pushing for an answer.

I would be a first-time teacher and speak no Korean so I do need to have some kind of English speaking population around me.

[hogwonguy1979]

if you do any research on the forums here you will find that Wonderland as a whole is one of the worst hogwon chains to avoid. Yeah there might be a couple that might be OK given the size of the chain or a new one but given the absolutely horrible the reputation of the rest place it's best that anybody should avoid