Original: http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/opi_view.asp?newsIdx=12987&categoryCode=197
Dr. Doane (Principal): Peg, as of this morning I’ve moved Philip from your English class.
Miss Narwin (English teacher): Why did you do that? Read More »
Daily Archives: November 8th, 2007
Original: http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/opi_view.asp?newsIdx=13370&categoryCode=162
By Jeffrey Miller
Late last year when I was back in the United States preparing to come back to Korea to teach at Woosong University in Daejeon, one of the things that I had to do before I could get my E-2 teaching visa was to have a criminal background check done.
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Original: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200707/200707030018.html
Seoul Metropolitan Police arrested two Canadians for working as English instructors with a fake bachelor’s degree and booked seven other foreigners and Koreans either on the same charge or for employing them. To work as an English instructor, foreigners have to get an E-2 visa permitting them to teach English in Korea. The visa is granted to applicants who have either a BA from universities in English-speaking countries or an English-language diploma from universities in non-English speaking countries.
Of the arrested Canadians, one studied only at an adult education center affiliated with a college after finishing high school. While working part-time in a fast food restaurant in Canada, he bought a fake U.S. bachelor’s diploma for US$300 on a U.S. website in August 2003. He came to Korea at the end of that year and started working as an English instructor for a private language institute in Songpa-gu, Seoul. The other graduated from a Canadian junior college and then worked in a factory. He came to Korea on a tourist visa in 2001 and paid US$500 to a Korean broker to buy a fake Canadian bachelor’s diploma in August that year. He worked as an English instructor at a language institute in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province since January 2004.
Meanwhile, police have arrested an Australian English instructor who made headlines last month by telling his Korean ex-girlfriend he was infected with the AIDS virus when she broke up with him.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
- Do you ever have problems paying your instructors?
- Do you have a curriculum? If yes, please tell me specifically what is in the curriculum. How much preparation must I do daily/weekly?
- Do I have to submit reports or grades? What other work besides preparation and teaching do I do?
- How long have you been in business?
- What type of housing do you offer? Dont’ forget you’re going to be living in this unit for a full year! Read More »
Six native English instructors from a well-known language institute in Gangnam were arrested for smoking hashish, an illegal narcotic. Some of the teachers allegedly taught students while high on the drug.
A 24-year-old Canadian instructor allegedly bought the drug from a source in a bar popular with foreigners in Itaewon after moving to Korea in 2005. The teacher is said to have smoked the drug five to six times a week. Read More »
The application process for an E-2 teaching visa will be tightened up in December.
original: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2007/11/07/200711070060.asp
According to a Ministry of Justice press release, foreigners who apply for teaching visas will have to submit a criminal background check and a medical check, and must undergo an interview at the closest Korean consulate to their home town. Visa runs to Japan will also be scrapped. Teachers must now receive and renew visas in their home country. Read More »
