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I here introduced an artical in the Weekly Donga, for the illegal cases of foreign Englsih teachers.Although, I did my best to translate it same as original, but I modified a little to help reader's understanding.I hope I didn't change the main concept of the original one.It is not a critical case but minor, compared to Drug, Sexual Abuse or even worse things etc, but will provide a reference to understand what's going on Korea, related with this issue.Actually, most of foreign teachers are legal and working excellent. Only a few of them are noisy, and causing trouble.
Weekly Donga Megazine.
Deny, Claim, Appeal and finally No comment .
wrote at 2007-03-14 09:30 modified at 2007-03-14 09:30
Mr. Choi sunghyu and 3 other officers from Immigration office, and Reporters of weekly Donga together, visited a Hakwon in Daechidong, Seoul, without notice, to detect some illegal working teachers at 2:25 pm, Feb 27, 2007.“What's up ?” “ Immigration officer. How many Foreign English Teachers in this hakwon ?”They had 3 British teachers and 1 Korean American teacher. The officers confirmed all 3 British teachers had no E2 Visa, which is illegal to teach English in Korea. But the Korean American was legal.The Hakwon was sued, and possibly charged penalty and those 3 illegal British guys might be exiled.
Seoul immiagration officers got information for this case, from the hiring advertisement on the newspaper.Under the current law, the qualification of teachers are requiring minimum 4 year college graduate, and limited for English speaking countries - USA, Canada, Australia, Newzealand and Ireland, and E2 Visa.
Hakwon is less tight to hire teachers, but E2 Visa is essential to teach English in Korea. Also, getting E2 Visa is more and more tight, and should attach no criminal background, no disease history etc.Hakwon usually checks E2 Visa, actually they often ignore E2 Visa too, and it's skin color. They prefer whites to blacks or Asian teachers. But Public schools are neither trying to hire illegal teachers nor selecting skin colors at all.They keep all the rules perfectly. In other words, all teachers in Public schools, are legal. Whether they are satisfying the working conditions or not, is a different issue. Teachers in Hakwons, specially small Hakwons or teachers who are visiting homes or companies to make personal business, are the trouble cases.
According to Seoul Immigration office, as of Jan. of 2007, there are more than 10,500 Hakwons in Korea, and 1,000 in Seoul among them. The number of legal teachers by origin of countries, are 5,244 from USA, 4,716 from Canada , 1,333 from British, and other countries are following. Please refer the graph.But these numbers are only for Legal teachers, and if we include all Ilegal teachers, then the number would easily go over 40,000, they estimated. As long as the strong demand is existing, it is not easy to stop those illegal teachers.
On August of 2005, the police arrested a professional broker K, Korean American, who runs a recruit company and sold FAKED Certificates of college graduates. At that time, police arrested 73 illegal teachers who bought FAKED certificates from K. But it is just a case. Unless police keep follows such peoples, then almost no way to arrest them.With only 8 peoples in the Seoul Immigration office, they detected 191 illegal persons in 2005, and 121 in 2007, but they know it is only a small part of total numbers.Followings are the examples of Detection.
● A Canadian teacher who taught some employees of big corporation, in every early morning. He made contract with companies for 6-8 months and charged 380million Korean won..
● Former Senator of Michigan, taught illegally, English for 3 years to some Korean professors from 1988. He charged 50,000 Korean won per hour.
● A Canadian used his friend's legal status, and taught English 3 years to Korean doctors. He charged 50,000-100,000 Korean won per hour.
●An Uzbekistan pretended a Canadian, and taught English to teach English and Russian. He charged 300,000 Korean won per month for 2 times a week. detected in July of 2006.
●A brazillian pretended a Canadian, taught English and charged 25,000 Korean won per hour for 2 years.detected in Aug. of 2006
●5 Korean college students opened a recruit site and managed to teach English by the hired illegal foreign teachers. deteced in Aug. 2006 There are so many different types of illegal Foreign English teachers. What we really worry is how we trust their ability to teach good English to Korean kids. The process to hire Legal teachers are so complicated and time consuming.
Therefore, many of Hakwons, are not like to spend such effort to hire Legal teachers, but simply hire Cheaper, Faster, and Easier Illegal teachers.The size of Hakwon.It is because there are too many small Hakwons to hire only 1-3 persons. If a teacher suddenly quit, then they have a problem not to have teacher. Naturally, they hurry to scout a teacher from other Hakwon urgently. That activity also is not legal unless they properly report it to the immigration office, but that means they can't scout the teacher. Furthermore, the Recruit agency charges 2 million Korean won per person to introduce a teacher, therefore, even if they know the current teacher is an illegal teacher, but they are hesitating to change him to legal teacher if they pay that finder fee to recruit company.My personal opinion.
I personally worry about the teacher's qualifications. Of course, E2 Visa or Certificate of 4 year college graduate are mandatory, but they are not enough.Kids are so sensitive to learn everything. The teachers must have a good character, and educate kids with goodattitude. They must learn how to teach Kids. Lots of careful considerations are necessary.
I think, Korean Hakwons counting only business, are responsible for this issues.
Korean government also know this problems, but they have not enough budget to invite regular teachers.
Mr. President and his team want to make this as a major project during their ruling time in this 5 years. They have no time to delay or to study longer. Therefore, hurrying government may be more responsible for it. Perhaps, the natural character of Koreans, hurrying and hurrying, are quite responsible for it.
If we don't hurry, and if we keep the rule exactly, then illegal teachers can't find job in Korea.
Then why they come to Seoul ?
We invited them.....
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