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8 October 2008 1,035 views 4 Comments

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Name: Topia English Zone

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steven said:

worked there (miasamgeori) in 2002-2003 (total 13 months). owners nice enough and basically treated me well, (but). apartment was good (recruiter fought to have us upgraded from a hovel). had to wash clothes in tub until owner bought washer, which was about a month in to the contract. then, i had to share it with the other taechers who brought their laundry over on sunday. then we raised hell, and we all got one. same deal with furniture. still think there was some hanky panky with regards to pension and tax, but can’t be sure. would love to find out. the guy screwed me on airfare by just depositing money to my account….a trifle. he complained because he purchased a 2-way to save money, but i worked for 13 months and the ticket had not been extended, so he tried to make up for his gaffe by saying it was my fault. i fought it, went to head office with him (2 hours of listening to koreans bicker). he said later that they agreed to pay 1/3, he would pay 1/3 and i would. found out from the inside that was a lie. they said he goofed and should pay but it wasn’t their problem. so he lied. for 250 bucks, he lied. i worked my butt off, brought students in, and he thanks me like that. he was the hogwan owner’s assoc area prez, and i heard thru the grapevine that at a meeting he chaired, about 70% of what they discussed was how to screw the foreigners….tax, pension, airfare, 5 months dismissal (screw the recruiter) 11 months dismissal (save the airfare), yada yada. and they wonder why people don’t want to come here!

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# 11 October 2008 at 7:16 pm

YUJ said:

I don’t necessarily know it’s English zone
but I attended the FLH part of the company
and they teach pretty well and the curriculum is just fine

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# 15 October 2008 at 3:29 pm

Philip Ols said:

I worked at the Noble Building Campus from July 2002 to June 2003 and I only have good thing to said about my experience there. In fact I intend to go back eventually.
I would defenatly suggest it to any one.

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# 4 April 2009 at 7:24 am

Michelle said:

I worked for Topia EZ in Junggye for one year, and I had a great experience. I loved the curriculum and the students, and when I return to Korea, I fully intend to resign with this school.

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# 2 June 2009 at 12:09 am