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[chopsticks]

While hunting for a new job for myself, I came across advertisements for the school I left last month, Eunpyung ECC. I would like to warn everyone that this is not a good place to work and the job advertisement is the misleading.

1. The school claims overtime is always available when in fact it is non-existant.

As an additional note, I was hired to teach at an elementary school in the morning and a hogwan at night. I arrived to find, after months worth of excuses, that the elementary school had decided not to re-sign.

2. There are not 6 foreign staff members. When I left the school there were 2 foreign staff remaining after the other two (myself included), left.

3. The basement apartment I was living in is a good 20 minute walk (not 5) from the school, is cochroach infested, and surrounded by a major construction project that saw two blocks worth of buildings demolished for the present expansion of the Eunpyung district office. Waking up to sledghammers and construction trucks for the past 6 months is enough to make anyone go a crazy.

4. The school will try to keep passports, make you pay for name tags, remove vacation days and replace them with required 'staff unity' days, not pay appropriate taxes, not pick you up from the airport when they promised to do so, buy outrageously expensive plane tickets to hold you ransom with (come on, W1.5 million one way from Canada?) and perform other equally petty gestures that remove any sense of ongoing trust.

Please be wary of this place. The school is planning on moving to a new location next to Gusan Station which should take care of some issues like grafitti on the walls and kids sending window panes (OK, just 1 pane) crashing to the sidewalk (no joke, this honestly happened!). Otherwise this place is unsatisfactory.

Spending hours at the labour board is not something anyone should have to go through... time that will never be returned! That's a whole other story though.

The only saving grace are the friendly, honest and very generous remaining teachers who did somewhat compensate for the otherwise very very poor management; though I do question why they bother staying.

So, to any potential applicants, e-mail or PM me first! Or just do yourself a favour and find something different.

[Roch]

Thanks for the whistle.

Did you get the job through ENI Education (Sunny Jang, Steven Grommesh, Lawrence Min, Kevin and an Eric Something or Other)? This criminal-minded outfit asked me to take a job at this hogwon.

[UncleAlex]

I would have gone over to that nearby construction site,
pick up a sledge hammer and demolish the hagwon.

[Reason.]