한국 원장들, 모두 무지 하지 않습니다 (Kor/Eng).

Posted: 2001/11/15  By: 이재록 (Views:3368)

I would say that not all the Korean bosses are stupid.

You're right. I think it's true that current situations cannot be fixed without fundamental
revolution in Koreans’ thinking.

But I'd like to point out that your saying is no more than a basic concept written on a
textbook.

No other country’s employers in the world manage the foreign teachers perfectly.

It seems to be absurd to conclude that all of Korea's bosses have problems in management just
by showing a few typically bad bosses' examples.

Of course we are suffering disgrace from foreign teachers because of those bad bosses. We
even meet many dispraising articles by teachers on Dave's eslcafe that Korea is a country where
they’ll never want to work in again and where never provides foreign teacher with affordable
conditions.

Naturally new job seekers are frightened and shrunk and start with a negative standpoint even
before starting their own works.

This is the terrible situation we are on.

As I told you before, I'm not trying to dispute with the necessity of early education of
English. I'd rather suggest the change of attitudes or methods when hiring foreign teachers.  

Let me give an example. I tried a fake posting of job seeking under an assumed name on the
eslcafe before. I was wandering how many replies I could receive from the employers.

Try this once: it's really interesting.

Over three days after my posting, I received over 150 e-mail replies.

I even received many replies from several other agencies competing with the same schools
(hakwons)' positions simultaneously.

Half of replies were the recruiters and other halves were those of hakwons.

The contents of their message were really sympathetic and desperate:

We need you desperately and we're ready to do everything for you.

I'm insisting stopping of these kinds of beggaring.

I would propose stop-of-beggaring by all the hakwons, instructors (who help hiring) and
agencies should be the first step of solution, stopping the waste of time just talking about
basic concepts.

There was a time I called Dave, eslcafe's webmaster, for complaining about that site's way of
running.

I harshly complained about his letting-alone strategy against those numerous and repetitive
postings containing malicious contents against Korea only, setting aside other countries' bad
cases; actually bad bosses are everywhere on the world including Japan and Korea.

He just replied that it's just the reflection of teachers, without replying anymore.

I retorted "O.K! If it's the real reflections of teachers, then never miss the posting of the
bad cases against other countries at the same time.”

And everything remains as it was.

Let me post again after calming myself down.