You’d have a sudden labor shortage. Immediately there would be a glaring absence of people willing to clean your houses and pools, trim your shrubs and trees, pick your fruit and vegetables, cook your french fries and wash the plates they were served on. (Just like Korean industry would be suddenly screwed if they really tried doing the same.)

“Or how about this: send all the legal Koreans back to Korea for a 3 month background check, you have until March. I think someone would be getting sued.”

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but I can see where you’re coming from. Take comfort in the fact that many of them are probably given a hard time by Homeland Security when they come and go.

It’s not so bad as ESL jobs in Korea go. One of the big points of contention is that the contract says you’ll have 22 teaching hours a week. Unfortunately, there’s also a clause buried deep within that says the principal can require you to work overtime. Which means most folks will work more like 24 - 26 hrs a week. They’ll also screw you nice and hard in the summer and winter programs.

But speaking from my own experience, and that of other SMOE teachers I know, paychecks have always come on time and in the proper amount, including overtime, and vacation time never has to be haggled over.

183,000 in US
100,000 in Canada
46,500 in Japan
10,000 in the Philippines…

That’s alot of illegal Koreans, I had no idea. Just a thought, what would happen in the US if we decided to implement stronger immigration laws, and fine, jail, and deport the illegals. Or how about this: send all the legal Koreans back to Korea for a 3 month background check, you have until March. I think someone would be getting sued.

So, there are very few Korean Canadians and Korean Americans who work here as teachers? Isn’t that to be expected since there are so few of them back home? I’m not saying that they aren’t discriminated against by Korean employers (sometimes, they are), but statistically speaking it’s to be expected. Don’t know about Korean Americans, but there are only about 150 000 Korean Canadians. In other words, Korean Canadians make up about 0.5% of the population of Canada—it’s a very small minority. On top of that, few Canadians are willing to come to Korea to teach English…and I bet even fewer Korean Canadian are willing to come to Korea to teach English (after all, many of them have left Korea to live in Canada).

PS. Strangely enough, there are nearly as many Koreans living illegally in Canada as there are living legally there (something a I like to remember whenever the Korean media claims that a few thousand Canadians taking advantage of the 6 month tourist visas to teach here illegally is an epidemic (the vastly more numerous Koreans living illegally in Canada probably don’t even bother to renew their tourist visas))

http://www.asianpacificpost.co.....03.do.html

lotsa luck to them …