Badmojo
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: Breaking a contract before the visa run |
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| Flossie wrote: |
I've recently signed a contract with a new hagwon but due to management changes in the first month things have started to go downhill at a pretty alarming rate. As such, I want to bail but I want to do it legally.
I have already signed the contract. The contract period has already started. They've applied for all the visa documents (I've seen the immigration letter to prove this) but immigration hasn't finished processing them yet. So I haven't been on my visa run yet.
I have a couple of questions:
1) How legal is a signed contract without the legal visa to cover it?
2) Do I still need a release letter?
Thanks for your help |
What you are is an illegal working in Korea. I'd put off the visa run, wait until I got paid, and leave in the middle of the night. Or just go right now. The signed contract means nothing, and you don't need a release letter. As far as Korean immigration is concerned, you're a tourist.
The same thing happened to me in January. I accepted the job from overseas, got to Korea, and it was garbage. I told them, I'll stay till you find a replacement, and that's it. What did they do? Waited until the day before pay day, then said "goodbye". I will say they gave me my return ticket, but they were still 200 000 short.
Bottom line, as an illegal, you have no recourse and they hold all the cards. |
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