>Here's another story of a crooked Korean ripping off another foreigner. I
>stupidly took a job at the Academy of Foreign Languages Institute in Kimhae
>and JEEZ-US was it a mistake!! First of all, the manager is a guy named
>Choi who goes by the name of "Joe" who is Korean but lived and studied in
>Australia for 7 years. This makes him a much more credible liar!!
>
>When I signed the contract, I specifically stated, MY OWN APARTMENT. I'm
>tired of flakey room mates and told them that up front. I was told my
>schedule was 6 hours/day, 3 morning and 3 at night. All the above was
>agreed to by this Joe guy. So, when I finally get there and the SINGLE
>APARTMENT they agreed to was a small apartment with another teacher and his
>live in girlfriend who stayed up until 2am every night, and a Korean
>teacher and her 6 year old kid!! I was treated like a criminal if I tried
>to cook because the Korean and her kid sort of ruled the roost there. On
>top of this, in was on the busiest intersection in the area complete with
>hookers operating 30 feet below my room and drunks yelling at them all
>night and all the fun the red light district has!
>
>My teaching assignment was not the 3 and 3 hours they told me about. It was
>to teach 2-one hour classes but to get to each one took an hour. Literally,
>I started teaching at 4pm, a 45 minute drive to one place, teach. Go to the
>other place (with another 25 minute trip) then another long trip back to
>town. In all, I taught 2 hours in a 4 hour period and taught some in the
>morning. I finally raised so much hell, they sort of told me I could go but
>I was never paid for my time. They partially reimbursed me \200,000 (that
>is the one way trip which cost far more than \200,000)for my travel
>expenses but never paid me for the rest of my teaching time. In all, I
>figure I lost (with lost) time and hours, the better part of \1,900,000.
>But at this point, I was really only interested in escaping from this
>hell-hole of a place!!
>
>They are advertising for teachers now, and I recommend that you stay far
>away from these bastards in Kimhae. There are other branches that are not
>run by this Choi/"Joe" guy that may be better. But this place is the
>pits!!! If you have any questions, e-mail me at the above address. you can
>use my name and e-mail address because other teachers need to be told about
>bastards like these. "Jim Bergen" <jimbergen@hotmail.com> 11/00