lao-ocean-girl » advice http://lao-ocean.com Travel often. Capture Life. Create Art. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:32:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Advice for English Teachers in Korea http://lao-ocean.com/2008/08/25/advice-for-english-teachers-in-korea/ http://lao-ocean.com/2008/08/25/advice-for-english-teachers-in-korea/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:15:32 +0000 lao-ocean-girl http://lao-ocean.com/?p=909 I enjoyed reading this post by Brendan Carr, who’s a lawyer in Seoul.  To summarize, he has a message for English teachers who call him up in the evening, complaining about their hagwon boss: “You can’t afford my legal services, so please stop imposing on my free time.”  I feel bad for him because I can image how many people are contacting him, wondering what to do about their horrible employer.

He gives a different link for people seeking legal advice.  I definitely agree with this:

And finally, have enough money available to walk if you need to. Do not come 5000 miles around the world, to a foreign country, without a cash-advanceable credit card that has about $3500 in available credit on it—so you can have a place to stay, meals to eat, and a return ticket home if you’re screwed over by the hagwon. I get a lot of Friday night calls from desperate hagwon instructors looking for a white knight to intervene and restore order to the world by Monday morning, because the instructor doesn’t have enough money for Cup o’Noodles. And the sad fact is, the legal system doesn’t work with instant remedies, if any remedy is available at all. So there’s nothing I can do for these poor, benighted people.

I can’t believe people would come to a foreign country and not have any way to leave, if a bad situation should come up.

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