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trinity24651
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject: Visas |
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| Can I get my visa before I go to Korea? When I asked my recruiter if my school paid for the "visa run", he said that I could take care of everything before even coming to Korea. |
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sock
Joined: 07 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, it's best if everything is done and you get your visa in your home country. It saves you the time/expense/trouble of doing a visa run to an unfamiliar country. If your school takes care of this before you come to Korea, take it as a good sign. |
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Mea
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| If they want you this month it's probably too late to get your visa in your home country. |
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trinity24651
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| They just want me!! They haven't give me a deadline on when to be there and have assured me that the job will be waiting for me when I get there. |
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frankly speaking
Joined: 23 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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You will need to send them your original diploma, sealed transcripts 3 photos and the signed contract. Then it will take a few weeks to process the paperwork at immigration. They will then send you the immigration code, used to be a blue paper now it is just a code #. You will then take your passport, 2 photos, the code# and fill out the visa form at the consulate in your country. It usually takes 1-2 days for the consulate to finish. Then you get on the plane and go.
If the school wants you immediately, then you will fly into Korea on a tourist visa and then go to Japan for a visa run. If I were you, I would get the E2 work visa before you go. Don't work for a school that wants someone in short notice. It can be a bad sign. Either someone just quit or they did not plan aheah. Good schools will usually prepared 1-2 months in advance.
Good luck. |
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alabamaman
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Will they prepay your ticket over? If you are being hired here or have to do a visa run do they cover ALL the costs or just airfare? (A visa run will set you back 200k won + airfare).
=Do they pay on time?
=Do they pay overtime or avoid it with creative book keeping?
=How many CLASSES per week NOT how many teaching hours per week,
=Do they pay into national medical and pension? Do you have your booklet from medical and did you get your statement from pension last October?
=Vacations, when do you get them, who decides when you get them. Do you get blocked vacations or just a day here and there?
=How is the housing? Is there shopping close by?
=What do you dislike about working/living at that particular hakwon? |
Have you asked foreign teachers the previously mentioned questions?
Does the labor contract have the following:
*Defined working hours
*Paid sick days (no less than 3)
*Annual leave (paid days of leave). Don't settle for weekend days couting as annual leave days in the labor contract.
*Wages: Don't settle for less than 2,000,000 Korean Won
*Overtime: 20,000 Korean Won per hour @ 2,000,000 Korean Won
*Airfare: Roundtrip airfaire (Don't settle for less!)
*Penalty clauses: Removed {The housing deposit may be a struggle}
Article 27 (Prohibition of Predetermination of Nonobservance)
An employer shall not enter into any contract by which a penalty or indemnity for possible damages incurred from nonobservance of a labor contract is predetermined.
*Dress code
*Income taxes {They use 3%-5% which isn't accurate}
http://nts.go.kr/front/service/refer_cal/gani/refer_gani_eng.asp
*Medical Insurance {KNHIP}
Korean National Healthcare Plan (Allot of teachers are enrolled in this plan)
http://www.nhic.or.kr/wbe/faq/faq.html
http://www.nhic.or.kr/wbe/nation/nation033.html
*Korean Pension Fund
http://www.nps4u.or.kr/eng/enpsk.html?code=./enpsk/a02.html
*Resignation: {30 days is plenty & it should be in writing!}
*Termination: {Written notice 30 thirty days before dismissal}
Article 30 (Restriction on Dismissal, etc.)
(1) An employer shall not dismiss, lay off, suspend, transfer a worker, or reduce wages, or take other punitive measures against a worker without justifiable reason.
(2) An employer shall not dismiss any worker during a period of temporary interruption of work for medical treatment of an occupational injury or disease and within 30 days thereafter; nor shall any female worker before and after childbirth be dismissed during a period of temporary interruption of work as provided herein and within 30 days thereafter; however, if an employer has paid the lump sum compensation due under Article 87 hereof or is not able to continue his business, this shall not apply.
Article 32 (Advance Notice of Dismissal)
(1) An employer shall give an advance notice to a worker at least thirty days before dismissal(including dismissal for managerial reasons). If the notice is not given thirty days before the dismissal, normal wages for more than thirty days shall be paid to the worker, except in cases, prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Labor, where it is impossible to continue a business because of natural disaster, calamity, or other unavoidable causes, or where a worker has caused considerable difficulties to a business, or damage to properties on purpose.
Article 35 (Exception of Advance Notice of Dismissal)
The provisions of Article 32 shall not apply to workers who fall within each of the following subparagraphs:
1. a worker who has been employed on a daily basis for less than three consecutive months;
2. a worker who has been employed for a fixed period not exceeding two months;
3. a worker who has been employed as a monthly-paid worker for less than six months ;
4. a worker who has been employed for seasonal work for a fixed period not exceeding six months; and
5. a worker in a probationary period
http://wiki.galbijim.com/Labor_Standards_Act
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trinity24651
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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=Will they prepay your ticket over? If you are being hired here or have to do a visa run do they cover ALL the costs or just airfare? (A visa run will set you back 200k won + airfare). YES
=Do they pay on time? YES
=Do they pay overtime or avoid it with creative book keeping? NO OT
=How many CLASSES per week NOT how many teaching hours per week,
DON'T KNOW THAT ONE
=Do they pay into national medical and pension? Do you have your booklet from medical and did you get your statement from pension last October? YES
=Vacations, when do you get them, who decides when you get them. Do you get blocked vacations or just a day here and there? DON'T KNOW THAT ONE
=How is the housing? Is there shopping close by? HOUSING IS SETTLED
=What do you dislike about working/living at that particular hakwon? HAVE TALKED TO THE OTHER ENGLISH TEACHER THERE
Have you asked foreign teachers the previously mentioned questions? YES
Does the labor contract have the following:
*Defined working hours YES
*Paid sick days (no less than 3) ?
*Annual leave (paid days of leave). Don't settle for weekend days couting as annual leave days in the labor contract. IT IS IN THE CONTRACT
*Wages: Don't settle for less than 2,000,000 Korean Won DONE
*Overtime: 20,000 Korean Won per hour @ 2,000,000 Korean Won DONE
*Airfare: Roundtrip airfaire (Don't settle for less!) TRIP TO SEOUL PAID; RETURN FLIGHT AT COMPLETION OF CONTRACT
*Penalty clauses: Removed {The housing deposit may be a struggle} DON'T HAVE TO PAY DEPOSIT
*Dress code CASUAL
*Income taxes {They use 3%-5% isn't accurate} DONE
*Medical Insurance {A majority of teachers use the KNHIP} DONE
*Pension DONE
*Resignation: {30 days is plenty & it should be in writing!} HAVEN'T COVERED THIS!
*Termination: {30 days prior to the last day worked (law) and it should be in writing. HAVEN'T COVERED THIS EITHER!! |
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