After almost six months of hard work in South Korea, first semester and a month of English camps/English conversation classes, we had finally earned our 10 days of vacation. Sadly though, because of swine flu, we had to be back in South Korea 7-10 days before the start of school or else we could not go to school which = bad in the eyes of our schools. Actually, when we first heard about this we thought that it only applied to foreign teachers, and needless to say we were quite irate. But later we discovered that this is true for all teachers and social workers in Korea and even true for students. If the person is not back in the country 7 days before the start of school they are not allowed to go until 7
... read more