Comments on: English teacher blacklist!

By: The Marmot’s Hole » Oh, those naughty, AIDS-threatening, skirt-chasing Aussie English teachers...

Tue, 29 May 2007 09:37:38 +0000

[...] The KFTRA added that the instructor in question has been added to its blacklist of foreign teachers. Whether he sues the KFTRA for defamation and violation of labor laws, however, is yet to be [...]

By: The Marmot’s Hole » You are being watched, Big Nose Teacher!

The Marmot’s Hole » You are being watched, Big Nose Teacher! — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:05:29 +0000

[...] (in which I spent five years, I’m none too proud to admit*) — between the dishonest, illegal blacklist-posting recruiters, thieving racist hagwon owners and skirt-chasing (not that there’s anything wrong with that), [...]

By: dinkus maximus

dinkus maximus — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:56:26 +0000

Everything is rightly in its wrong place in Korea. And I do mean everything. So, of course the ESL industry is as it is. We all get what we deserve from it in the end. Websites such as englishspectrum kind of symbolize things. I’m moving to Japan.

By: The Marmot’s Hole » Blog Archive » English teacher hiring practices under fire after Ramsey break

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:33:52 +0000

[...] Of course, the netizens have something to say about this. Over at online issue discussion site Buchaejil, there’s an article on the netizen fury over low-quality English teachers and the Korean women who love them. [...]

By: kimchipig

kimchipig — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:12:16 +0000

They heyday of ESL in Korea is long, long over and has been since 1996 or so. China is the place to be now. That said….

To solve most of the problems in the ESL industry in Korea all the government would have to do is issue a 5 year ESL working visa where the teacher is free to move anywhere he/she wants. This is exactly the way the system works in Japan.

Of course, the Japanese get around it by hiring 20 year old dorks who have not the slighest idea of what Japanese visa or labour law is……

By: jyce

jyce — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:05:16 +0000

I’m sur e this must be more of that powerful logical ability you’re always boasting about; though more coherent people might see that one doesn’t appear to have anything to do with the other.

If you’re going to preach to others about what to do, it might actually be helpful to practice what you preach. I simply found an example posted by yourself to a public forum where the standards you hold for others grossly contradict the ones you hold for yourself. You simply got beat fair and square on your own words, and no amount of incoherent bitching is going to make a difference.

Cheers!

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:02:42 +0000

Hey dog, you said it not me. Let’s not be a sore loser.

This from someone who has learned all he knows about the U.S. from cable TV.

By: shakuhachi

shakuhachi — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:28:59 +0000

Jyce, are you an Engrishi teacher? You are, right?

By: jyce

jyce — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:00:35 +0000

Hey dog, you said it not me. Let’s not be a sore loser.

By: dda

dda — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:20:21 +0000

it’s not actually all that different from changing jobs back home.

Dunno about your back home, but it’s indeed very different from *my* backhome, where the resident card is [except for visa students] a work permit, period.

Besides, during the request process for a visa at my last employer in Korea, I was asked why I was changing jobs so often [I've held 4 jobs in 11 years, one teaching in a Uni, the rest working for companies, so go figure], and they were difficult about the issuance. The lawyer back then said that they had the impression that I “jumping from job to job every time a better offer appeared”, and that was something they didn’t want to hear about. D’uh.