Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Yelman]

do teachers in Korea ask employers to sign a personal contract?

I surely dont want to end up a runner as i have heard happens sometimes.

I dont want to insult a future employer but im not going to end up in the Korea Black Listing Schools group.

Some of these contracts look like prison sentences / forced labor.

yelman
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[RachaelRoo]

Sign a what? What's a personal contract?

You do have to sign a normal contract to work here. The contract holds little weight and your boss will not have even read it.

Do your research, talk to current employees, and be selective, and the job will likely be fine. If it isn't, nothing you could get them to sign will make any difference.

The concept of a signed contract being totally binding is not a concept here, especially when it's a white guy who wants it to be binding.

[RachaelRoo]

Also, I know that some of the things you've read about jobs here are really bad - and occationally, they are. But I have found that more often than not it's the foreign teacher who is primarily to blame, and not the employer. Definitely, people get screwed by hagwon owners, however, usually the stories you hear from the waygookin teacher are very exaggerated and one sided, leaving out everything they themselves did wrong.

[Yelman]

hahahahahahhaha

no kidding..its like that there ! ! !

sounds a lot like thailand

the only right you have is the right to leave..lol

well ! im going to need help from boots on the ground in korea.

who needs a teacher?