10/03/2024
I am writing this post at 2am because I cannot sleep. I came back to Korea after a long break I worked an exhausting 4 weeks that were well paid but were soul-sucking as I knew parents had spent a lot of money to send their children to a camo instead of a hogwan only for their children to sit in a hogwan and a hotel for 4 weeks when they could have been sitting on a beach in Boracay for a fraction of the price. The day after I finished I got a call from.a hogwan owner that a colleague had given my number to asking me to fill in for 3 weeks while he found another teacher. Not an easy task for a business obviously losing money that had to pay expensive franchise licensing fees to use the name of one of Korea's SKY universities. On my last day, an excited Korean man walked in telling me he was my new director and I explained I hadn't been paid and had only agreed to work for 3 weeks. For the next couple months, I received text messages, apologies, and broken promises and then silence with no replies. At this point, I contacted the company that licensed these franchises and after 2 weeks of silence this was their reply;
