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Straight from teachenglish.co.kr

To all prospective teachers, I strongly urge you to stay away from King's International School located in Bundang. The reason is that the owner of the school Mr. Moon (Daniel) is an immoral person. There were around 4 teachers who worked there under the contract. The two teachers named Kecia and Emily had to leave the country without their promised year-end severance pay and lesser of two months pay because the owner refused to pay them. At the end of November 2004, Mr. Moon should have had paid their severance pay as stated in the contract. Because he didn��t want to pay, he deliberately made them leave the country by not paying their pay at all. He told them with some unreasonable excuses. Even on the last day, he delayed their air-plane ticket back to US without telling them, so the teachers�� parents in the US wasted 5 hours driving to the airport. Another foreign teacher from Canada was evicted from her one room office where school provided. The reason was because she refused to teach because she didn��t receive her pay for more than 2 months and her overtimes. Also, she only had one more month left in her contract to get her severance. Because of this, she demonstrated outside the school with post-signs written ��KIS pay the teachers��. The owner threatened to sue her and said he��ll call the police if she didn��t stop. So, eventually, she got really scared and cried and she ended up begging the owner to even just pay half of her payment. The owner paid her only a half and made her sign a letter saying that she received the full-amount and will not take any legal actions against the school. The owner needed this letter to settle the case with the labor department. The owner Mr. Moon of KIS School is insane and immoral. So far, there were about 8 teachers (foreigners and Korean teachers) who left the school without pay. As of today, KIS replaced almost every teacher except one teacher, and they even replaced the front desk employees and the manager of the school named Cathy. Everything got ugly and despite the matter of money, all the teachers were frustrated and mentally and physically abused by Mr. Moon. The owner is taking advantage of foreigner teachers since they can��t speak any Korean and don��t know how to file a suit against the school. Only thing that��s in Mr. Moon��s mind is that he��ll just hire new teachers and staffs every one or two months later.