I am reading all these postings for teaching jobs in Korea and notice that the number of sick days allowed is rarely mentioned. Why is that? From what I heard, teachers often get sick soon after their arrival to Korea...sometimes very sick. Mentioning sick days when advertising the contract details would be a huge selling point for me. What happens when one exceeds their sick days and is still sick? So confusing.
I am a walking disaster when it comes to travelling. I always get a sick stomach and a cold almost instantly upon arrival in a foreign country. It's the good ol' Canadian cleanliness, I think. Plus, I grew up eating the typical "meat and potatoes" diet, without any spices except for salt and pepper.
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It is because they don't REALLY like you to take the sick days.
If you aren't working for a University or Public School (you work for a hagwon) they don't really like giving you your vacation time either.
That's rudiculous...so they'd rather have the teachers suffering and spreading their illness, eh?
What about the Korean teachers...are they allowed sick time off or do they also run down the hall to the washroom with stomach flu too?
They will come to work or class feverish and hacking up a lung.
The ONLY time this started to change was during the swine flu scare. And that has passed.
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