Disposable Teachers

Native English teachers are and will always be disposable to EPIK, GEPIK, SMOE, and any other teaching program in Korea.

Native teachers do not have rights as long as Korean schools dangle everything over native teachers' heads and hint at mistreatment down the line. They control too much about your contract; they will use the ambiguous contract wording and lack of actual contract checks and balances to their advantage. So much for decency; you're a pawn to be pushed at their whim.

Isn't it strange that most countries around the world strictly follow contractual obligations, yet many of Korea's schools still seem to think it is still mere child's play. I would easily say there are many who have been mistreated at the hands of their employers and co-workers; It's not as if there is any REAL way of getting help without retaliation from your school in the future.

Too much power is in the wrong hands.
Too little is there to support native English teachers.
Too much of the native English teaching contract is designed to quickly dispose of and replace teachers.

When I say native English teachers, I mean people who have the potential to be good teachers, but are surrounded by an environment that says, "Leave, we don't want you here." You won't get training, you might get a caring Korean teacher that might do some actual work (but it's highly unlikely), you will get a large majority of students and Korean English teachers that see you as irrelevant (there is no important standardized test for verbal speaking), you will get mistreated and forgotten daily.

Do not go to Korea to teach English, no matter how much money they dangle in front of you. They haven't put any real thought into protecting you from the corruption that still prevails in Korea's mismanagement of resources, workers, and, of course, you.

One day this may all change, but until then the misconduct continues...