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I'd been in Taiwan for a while and really feel repulsed at the place. Anyone else here have any negative experiences in Taiwan in comparison to Korea?

I know there are idiosyncracies to all cultures, but Taiwan has got to be one of the most confounding, especially job-wise. Hey, it's like t his.

I'd worked in Korea for over five years before I'd gone to Taiwan. I still came under severe scrutiny there, was even told "You've been in Korea too long." It wasn't as if this had anything to do with teaching in and of itself, but the fact that here children are treated a little more harshly, seriously, and not necessarily just as another dollar for the boss. It's quite often you get jostled around in the name of greed in Taiwan, since you don't have a "real contract" to cling to due to the fact most of the culture is too vague and jobs there, up-in-the air law-wise.

Here, you sign a contact, and you're in. In Taiwan, you sign a contract, and then they give you a probation period, leave you hanging. You then have to put up with far more lunacy there.

I'm glad I'm out of there too. Would you trust staying there with the present "anti-secession" law stipulated by China, or would you run? Would you feel safer here in Korea than Taiwan, or vice-versa? Why or why not?

I know there are some good things that culture(Taiwan,) has to offer, and I wonder if I'd made a mistake by coming back to Korea. But it appears that things are just more benign here. Working in Taiwan was like trying to squeeze water out of a rock. Now with that new law there, I feel kind of glad I'm out of there. Plus, I'd been through a couple of earthquaks there and don't really care for the lack of safety.