OK the won is depreciating, and one's Korean paypacket aint worth much in U.S. dollars anymore. The Holleys have to be hurting too, so I'm sure they will look for ways to cut corners either legally or illegally so that they don't lose their investments in the U.S.
The pension should be watched. Some shonkey hogwons make their 4.5%(or whatever it is) deductions from your paycheck for the pension, and pocket it. As an employee of the Holley's who of course aren't that honest I would check to see that they are on the level, and not pocketing the deductions. The pension office in Gwangju is very accomodating, but it might be good to take someone who can speak Korean to help. Don't ask the Holleys, because they will tell you anything. Of course only citizens from Canada, the United states and the few other countries whom have reciprocal agreements with Korea can claim back there deductions and the matching payments of their employer. It wouldn't be that wrong of course if the Holleys didn't take pension deductions from those teachers whom aren't elligible to recieve the pension pay out. By law all employee have to be on the national pension plan, but then this would be breaking the law to help an employee.
The payout from the pension scheme is at least the equivalent of the severance, so the benefitting teachers finish their contract with a decent bonus in their hands
Now one is supposed to leave the country to get their pension back. I think one has to nominate a bank in that persons country , and it gets forwarded. There are ways to have it wired into a bank in Korea. Check DAVES ESL CAFE under the "KOREAN JOB FORUM" section and one can find the advice one needs
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Interesting stuff about the national pension. There is a nice payout for those who are eligible to recieve it. Unfortunately for persons from say the U.K., N.Z. and South Africa the lucrative end of contract payouts aren't available. The school still has to take deductions from all paychecks, and make matching payements to the pension fund. Bit of a bummer for those unfortunate ones.
Point in the blog entry was made about some Hogwans making the deductions and pocketing the money. Sad that some owners would do that. They are exploiting the vulnerability of their employers who are still insecure about their rights. Some owners who do this are banking on the fact that the employee will return home none the wiser about being ripped off.
Good warning there though for those with the initive to check that they will get what's owing them.
Unfortunately there is an air of resignation amongst a lot of teachers who have been taken advantage of. resignation to the unfortunate attitude that it isn't worth fighting for.
Interesting also to see that El Presidente LMB will be offering citizenship to those persons who have talent without requiring them to give up their own citizenship.
Incredible that they would change the law on a whim like that. I'm sure Mr Robert Holley, and all the others who went through what he did are quite put out and annoyed. after having to give up his citzenship
The WASC thing is really overated. It's the lowest of the low of registrations. Any International school worth it's salt doesn't toy with WASC. It's satandard procedure for schools to do whatever they want after they have gotten their WASC certification.
I was in Japan at a newly established International school which was working to-wards getting it's WASC certification. The other International school in the city had WASC registration, but the parents were pulling their kids out of it, because the teachers were moved all over the place, and made to teach subjects they weren't qualified to teach.
The parents were taking ttheir kids out of the supposedly established school, and putting them in the newer school, because they were doing what WASC required.
I was reading about the school having an ESL programe on Wikipedia. Seems like this Gwangju Foreign school aint nothing better than Hogwan. Geeze what kind of people are the owners, and just exactly what kind of school is it.
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young are probably rolling over in their graves knowing that one of the faith which they established is running a shonkey buisness in Gwangju.
Tangun is rolling in it's grave knowing that A Mrs Holley has been spawned into the Korean race.
Gwangju Foreign school as bad as it is, and as corrupt as it is, isn't the worst of the worst of the foreign international schools. There are others out there that are supposedly much much worse, and thats one hell of an indictment against the International school, foreign school system in Korea. There is an international school in Pusan that the owners of this school were affiliated with, and it's supposed to be terrible. Seems like anything the Holleys touch turns to rot.
There is something rotten in the state of the Gwangju foreign school.si
Holley is cracked in the head. He is practically admitting his illegal handling of the ESL programe by requiring school staff and whomever to now use a password to read the newsletters. The Newsletters openly discuss the schools ESL students, and they appear to be a big part of the school. An illegal big part hence the new additional requirement for an ID just to read the letters.
Guess the dood has got a hell of a lot to hide.
International lawyer my ass. International shister is better. How can anyone be so brazen as to to want to hang around with a stinking rotten reputation like he has.
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