Are You Being Cheated Out of Your Pension?

Those that plan on collecting your pension money after a long hard year of ESL, please listen up. Recently, it has come to our attention that tax offices in South Korea are encouraging public schools to under report your salary to compensate for the large taxes you don’t pay as a foreign national. It goes [...]

Keeping Touch With Family Part II

In this second article I’ll discuss another potentially useful method of keeping in touch with family back home: VOIP. Now technically Skype and calling cards (which we discussed in Part I both utilize VOIP, however true VOIP is a different beast all together. Skype uses a closed VOIP network, so to access it you can [...]

Keeping Touch With Family Back Home Part I

For those of you that will be leaving home for the first time one of the biggest problems you will face is homesickness. It can be fine the first week or even month but eventually that gnawing feeling in the back of your mind eventually comes to the forefront. I suppose there are many reasons [...]

SMOE Cancels 100 Jobs Then Pins The Blame on Teachers

The Seoul education office withdrew employment notices sent to more than 50 native English speakers, inviting complaints from applicants who were supposed to start work at public schools in the city in the fall. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) Tuesday, it hired too many foreign English teachers to fill the 560 [...]

Professor Raises Awareness About Racism in South Korea

Being harassed for his skin color was one thing, but not even having the legal means to lodge a complaint was a bigger shock for Bonojit Hussain, a professor from India who has been living in Seoul for over two years. In a case that is certain to leave a mark in South Korea’s judicial [...]

Are You Being Cheated Out of Your Pension?

Those that plan on collecting your pension money after a long hard year of ESL, please listen up. Recently, it has come to our attention that tax offices in South Korea are encouraging public schools to under report your salary to compensate for the large taxes you don’t pay as a foreign national. It goes [...]

ESL Teachers from Canada Quadruple

A growing number of recent graduates from Canadian universities are becoming English teachers overseas, discouraged by a tight job market during Canada’s deepest recession in decades. Teach Away, a Toronto-based agency that helps North Americans find teaching jobs overseas, says applications to teach English in Asia and elsewhere have jumped about 400 percent since late [...]

Keeping Touch With Family Part II

Keeping Touch With Family Back Home Part I

SMOE Cancels 100 Jobs Then Pins The Blame on Teachers

Professor Raises Awareness About Racism in South Korea

ESL Teachers from Canada Quadruple