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[sweetsheed36]

This question is directed toward ddeubel, or anyone else who might know how smoe/ flight pay backs ought to work...


I completed my first contract with smoe, was given a round-trip ticket home, and now I am 5 months in to my second contract, and I am going to resign at the end of this month.

When I told the head of smoe, she said I would have to pay back half of the round-trip ticket they gave me for completing my first contract(originally I said I would be leaving at the 6 month mark).

I thought the airfare was pro-rated, and after 6 months it would be paid off...is that not true?



thanks

[Bibbitybop]

The SMOE head office doesn't care about your situation or how long before your 6-month mark. Expect to repay your airfare.

You have vacation coming up. Can you stick it out for January, take your vacation in February and be able to leave Korea at the beginning of February or end of January and have your official quitting date at the 6 month mark?

[Yu_Bum_suk]

If you quit after six months, you should not have to pay back any airfare (though you'll have to pay your own way out of the country).

Be warned though, that SMOE does not like to give out LORs, one of the reasons why I'll never work for SMOE.

[icicle]

If you are leaving before the 6 month mark on the second contract then I would expect you to need to repay half of the return ticket you were given at the end of the first contract.

My reasoning:
If you had finished at the end of your first contract, then you would have been entitled to the trip home ie one way ticket. Because you were signing again ... signing the second contract then you were also paid for the ticket back to Korea ... The second half of the return ticket.

In many of the contracts if you resign before the magic 6 month mark then you are required to repay the airfare which brought you from your home to Korea ... In your case this would be equivalent to half of the return airfare which as paid ...

So to me if you are leaving before the 6 month mark then I would expect you to have to repay half of the return airfare ...

The easiest solution to this would be to work past the 6 month mark ... if you can ... Or just accept it as one of the costs involved in leaving early ...

Icicle