외국인수급 우리나라가 망칩니다 (Kor/Eng).

Posted: 2001/11/07  By: 이재록 (Views:3698)

We Koreans are screwing up the demand-and-supply of ESL teachers.

I'm running my school (hakwon) and doing recruiting business as well.

I'd like talk about my thought I'm feeling while doing my businesses.

You know only native speakers are prospering in these down times; they receive over 2.0 mil
won salary per month with housing and vacations which only few Korean employees are affordable
nowadays.

I'm not going to discuss about the necessity of early English education but to discuss about
the attitude to the foreigners of hakwons and agencies in Korea.

The skyrocketing salaries and benefits for the foreigners are, I think, caused most by
hakwons and agencies.

We must fix the admiring look at the foreigners just only s/he has colored hair.

I'd like to believe there will be the times when Korean teachers in U.S are treated like the
prospering foreign teachers here someday. Agencies demand unbearable commissions from
employers, employers demand unbearable registration fees from the students' parents.

In the long run all of the country becomes demanding high costs. Let's stop doing this.

You know, in Seoul, they request 1.6 mil wons of commissions for just introducing a native
speaker. I'd like to ask them (agencies) what the hell they are doing; what the great jobs
they're doing demand 1.6 mil wons' cost for introducing an English teacher?

I would say that our attitude to the foreigners should be really changed.

If anybody has opposite ideas, reply to my message please.

Let's see how much believable his or her thinking is.