tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post5724519367469317716..comments2023-07-17T11:58:00.816-03:00Comments on What the kimchi???: Coming to KoreaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-49638882598668577742017-03-08T08:55:05.691-04:002017-03-08T08:55:05.691-04:00I just found this post, and I am really sad that I...I just found this post, and I am really sad that I didn't find it earlier. Worked at Andover for a few months. I quit for many of the reasons mentioned here. (mainly the healthcare and pension) But the school is still causing me problems for me. I have requested documents from them that the government needs to continue to live in Korea and the school is refusing to turn over those documents. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-84448595937994360912016-07-01T23:06:37.863-03:002016-07-01T23:06:37.863-03:00Andover ... It started off relatively well and the...Andover ... It started off relatively well and then things just started going south. Foreign teachers are basically just there to do the work the Korean teachers don't want to do. Books are piled onto their desks and expected to be checked almost immediately. Korean co-teachers very seldom communicate with their foreign teacher - probably because most of them can just about speak English. They're rude and disrespectful to the foreign teachers. Even the owner treats the foreign teachers like crap. We work long days with no breaks. Events are left up to the foreign teachers, but their ideas are shut down. We're just there to clean up. Korean teachers spend 99% of their administrative time on the computer doing nothing. Foreign teachers are expected to use the students' computer room to do any kind of computer work. Management has tried to swindle foreign teachers when it came down to paying their 13th cheques, flights home, and deposits for housing. They've also avoided paying pensions (which is illegal). Management doesn't take to kindly to staff leaving or complaints and will avoid you and treat you worse than before. <br />The lessons are rushed and students don't learn anything. They're given pages and pages of homework - whether or not they've covered that work during the lesson. Games played at the end of the lesson have to be centred around the work learnt - so shitty games like Hangman and Bingo are expected.<br />Andover is definitely not the best place to work, and I'd advise anyone considering it to give it a miss. Unless you want to be suicidally depressed. However, I have heard of worse places.<br />I hope anyone searching for Andover finds this and steers clear from them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com