koreans, hogwans and racism

uugghh! koreans are a strange sort. they will give a foreigner the shirt off their back and bend over backwards to help you and then spit on you as you leave. they make no sense.

hogwans (privately run tutoring schools) are so awful. they lie cheat and steal to get as much out of the foreign (and korean) teacher as they can. if you have worked in korea at a hogwan and haven't dealt with some kind of headache.....consider yourself VERY lucky. my last hogwan was an experience that made me vow never to walk into another hogwan job again as long as i live. now teddy is being pushed in the same direction. he has been at this current hogwan for almost two years and he finishes his 2nd contract in 4 days. finishing this friday means that there will be one week left in his hogwan's semester that he won't be there for. finishing on friday also means that he is jobless for the last week of my vacation.......a great opportunity for us to have a quick trip together before i start teaching again. well, his hogwan hasn't prepared for his end of contract and don't have a teacher to replace him yet (no surprise there!)....now they are saying that he has to work that last week of their semester or they will withhold his severance pay. teddy has been a loyal employee and has done a lot of work for his manager and now she's stabbing him in the back. lovely. she is telling teddy to go to japan this weekend (because his visa expires this sunday) and come back to work next week. i highly doubt that they will be paying for his visa run to japan and a legal extension of his working visa. i'm pretty sure that she means for him to fund his own trip to japan and return to korea to work for them on a tourist visa! crazy! anyone know a lawyer in korea???

as for the racism part........don't even get me started!!!