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It's 3am on a chilly February Seoul morning. I am sitting in the front seat of a non-descript concrete south-eastern Seoul apartment complex.My companion is Lee Ha-Neul, a hard-nosed 43-year-old former soldier who has been peering through a night vision monocular at an apartment on the 6th floor without so much as a break for the past two hours<br>
He'll open his balcony curtains soon" Lee states with an air of confidence that I find slightly disconcerting. I had already begun making mental comparisons between Lee and Arnold Schwarzennegger's Terminator Character when sure enough, the curtains were pulled back.<br>"How did you know?" I ask slightly amazed. ....Lee passes me his nightvision monocular....What I see before me is an unshaven, paunchy thirty-something foreign male quickly moving about his apartment in a manner that would suggest he was readying himself for a long vacation, perhaps a permanent 'Perfect' Lee sounds awfully pleased with himself. He's packing up, I've got him, he's about to do a midnight run. Maybe not tonight but definitely in the next day or so." Lee continues to film the hapless fugitive to be for another 30 minutes before deciding to call it an evening.... What I have just witnessed is simply another day of business as usual for the language institute owner's newest best friend, Enforcement Corporation. EnfCorp is a small firm consisting of three directors and 34 employees....He believes that foreigners who come to Korea for employment must fulfill their obligations and behave in a manner which is expected in Korean society. "Foreigners have a very poor reputation in the ESL industry when it comes to doing the right thing" he says. "All I want is, to make them behave [foreigners] in an honorable way and not ruin small businesses, this is mine and EnfCorp's goal." <br>
What EnfCorp represents is the future of ESL contract enforcement in Korea. EnfCorp not only runs thorough pre-employment background checks on institute and university applicants, they also conduct 24-hour surveillance of employees who are deemed a flight risk, and upon request, frustrate an employee's efforts to leave Korea without their employer's permission.<br>
....EnfCorp's staff consists of ex-servicemen, former immigration officials and retired subway employees who know exactly what it takes to encourage a delinquet teacher to honor their contract, or at the very least, pay an amount of compensation which allows both parties to go their separate ways. The majority of EnfCorp's employees carry licensed firearms, and are authorized to use force in order to get the job done....One of EnfCorp's most notable victories of 2002 was its successful tender for a contract with the Immigration Department to assist in the indentification of "private" teachers who are working without employment authorization. Choi Joon-Ho, a silver haired retired subway stationmaster is responsible for managing this EnfCorp contract. "I have a staff of four subway corporation retirees who watch the more popular stations every day," he says. Suspects are photographed and their destination are carefully noted. A dossier is compiled over a one-month period and then referred to an Immigration Case Officer who decides whether to proceed with an investigation. "We have an excellent success rate, no one ever suspects the old person hanging around the subway station."

Seoul Classified Vol. 5 Issue No. 9, May 3, 2003

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http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=4102

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wb