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chi-chi
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William Beckerson
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:40 am Post subject: |
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You'll probably have to go on another visa run.
And your boss needs to be strung up. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Middle Land
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:38 am Post subject: |
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Wow.
No notice, no nothing. And he won't even sign the letter of release?
What a bastart! |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| Here's a telephone number for Mokdong Immigration. Explain situation. Sick them on your lazy boss. They speak English at the other end of this: (02) 2650-6225/6 |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| your boss is refusing to sign a release letter because he wants to extort a "finders fee" from your new employer, when you find one. Every Mr Kim and Park wants his cut of the merchandise. |
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Harvard Material
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 11:58 pm Post subject: Hakwon closed. |
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Listen to rapier chi-chi! That is exactly what the director needs; 1,000,000won finder's fee for releasing you without notice. Don't buy into it, don't speak of the new location, school name, director or otherwise, and don't buy a letter of release! Zero-won. Zilch. Notta'!
efl-law.com has an excellent proto-type letter of release you can print out, sign and request your boss to sign as well. If your boss fails to sign it you take it to Immigration with the date and time you requested the director to exercise his/her spelling abilities, but were met with refusal.
It explains all of this when you go to that site...
The reason I suggested you don't pay for a letter of release is made in reference to a certain school ***** ***. They charged one teacher 600,000won for a release letter (written in Korean). It was accepted. Took the release letter to the new school and the potential employer said "SURPRISE!! This isn't a release letter. This is telling Immigration not to let you back into Korea...at least for the remainder of your previous contract!"
HA! KUM-SAH-HUUUUUUUUUUUM-NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-DA!!!!! 
Not a very nice stunt, but it did put 600,000 into someone's pocket! The same person who wrote the letter also tried to collect a finder's fee after the fact!  Why not? Go for broke!! That's the policy at ***** ***; "I want more money! I want your money! Give me your salary!!!" Yah right...suck it.
600,000won wasn't the going price either. It wasn't set. It was well over a million for a different teacher.
EVERYBODY! DO NOT PAY FOR A LETTER OF RELEASE!!! Let me re-word that; NO payment for a letter of release. One more example; payment for release letter, NO! Anio! Non! Nine!
It's an unnecessary service charge, and I believe it is not legal to request payment for it in the first place. You can pay for it if you want to, but it's kind of like asking for the time of day. You may politely get "It's 12:p.m..", and you say "Thank-you" and go about your business. Or you might get "Give me five dollars and I will tell you." What do you do? Is it legal? Does that matter??
Is it worth it to walk down the street a bit further and look through a window for a clock, or do you pay the filthy dog five bucks? I'd rather invest that five bucks in a watch of my own, and I can tell the whole World what the time is for free!!
Your choice...
Good luck working it out chi-chi... |
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chi-chi
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:27 am Post subject: |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:38 am Post subject: |
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Chi chi, snap. I've been scouting for a new job here recently but no real bites...all recruiters but they don't bother getting back to you, and if they do, its only to keep you hanging around , with no solid offer- except some lousy mom 'n pop hogwon in the middle of nowhere.
Likewise I'm getting jerked around on pay a bit lately- the directors have a lot less cash to play with right now.
I think its the same across the board...hagwons are really suffering now. of the 4 hagwons in my town, one is threatening to close, two have downsized their waegook staff, and mine is suffering a student fall -off due to the summer break...same as the others.
Today i jacked up my resume and documents etc (been pretty lazy with it up til now).
Its a bad time of year, for sure, and the economic situation is strangling the whole business.
Is taiwan in the same boat? |
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chi-chi
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:04 am Post subject: |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:41 am Post subject: Try |
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Seriously, I don't want to sound like I'm advertising for someone, but try Andrew at Haanrecruit.
I think most people on this board know what i've been through in recent weeks, and Andrew has done a lot to get me going with a new job, as well as working me through some Visa problems. I got my new E-2 in Japan today. I'm very happy with how Andrew has smoothed over things with immigrations and my new employer so far. I know he's got some other jobs posted on Dave's too.
Here is his number:
011-213-2594 |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| Ever notice how some days in Seoul there seems to be no AC anywhere?!? I then read in the Korea times that Korea is doing "power conservation"-why. Money problems? |
Or perhaps because on average people are consuming more power per person while Korea's ability to generate power is limited and is at near maximum capacity as it is. A new nuclear power plant is required, but that requires the problem of where to store the used nuclear fuel, and the current place that was to be built hit a roadblock when the local residents learned that they aren't going to be given untold riches so that they can move away.
Your reason is shorter though. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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I heard that if he goes to immigration now, cancels the visa, then I will only have 14 days to find another job or something.
But if I get another job first, then he said just have the new director call him and I can just transfer, no visa run, whatever.
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This is feasible. The transfer would be done through immigration with the change of employer & one-year extension noted on your ARC. If youve had a decent working relationship with the guy up to this point, its possible hes looking out for your interests. Good luck finding new work. |
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