AVOID PAGODA AND IAN WINDSOR!!! I am glad that a post on these guys has finally managed to stay up without getting pulled. I don't know what kind of pull this company has but I have read MANY posts about them and then they disappear. I think they pay to have negative posts removed. Thank you eslteachersboard.com for letting this one say afloat. I love this site.

I can attest to how Ian will act like a great friend and then turn on you the second you get there. This is EXACTLY what happened to me. He was such a cool guy and talked about the location and going the nice coffee shops and shopping and really had me conned. Once I got there I got a schedule that had me teaching from 8am to 9pm once every 3 hours. I had no life at all. I also got my schedule every month less than 24 hours before my classes started. I was late once because I got hit by bike on the sidewalk. I had to go to the hospital and they still threatened to fire me if I missed a class again. I think her name was Amy. There was a man name Jody Barron working there at the time who spent every waking moment complaining about how bad his life and schedule was but he was a manager and just bragged about how he toughed it out so that the teachers wouldn't complain about their life. It was a joke. Rumor was they had a 10% firing rate per month.

I quit and in Korea you cannot work for another company until you get released from the first one. They stuck me for every single Won they could. It is also true about the apartment. The guys name was Rocky and it was a scam.

BAD PLACE BAD PEOPLE. I left and worked with kids and found Korea to be a much nicer place when you get away from these types of places.