Thanks snugglers, for sharing your illuminating experiences with the ethical folks at ACE. Welcome to the wonderful world of ESL recruiters -- where ANYTHING will be said in order to collect a fee and move on to the next potential sucker. I'm glad a bit of intelligence and common sense on your part kicked in quickly (they never count on that -- always assume expats are completely gullible no matter how laughable their statements are).

It seems harder to circumvent recruiters in Korea. It's much easier to bypass recruiters in China (one tiny reason I much prefer China to Korea).

Anyway, thanks again, and happy trails...

I'll add ACE to the upcoming third edition of Korea "Hall of Shame" which will now have a section dedicated to recruiters.

Theo