It's looking like schools will postpone again. I'm not sure how much my academy is charging families for our current online classes, but I know the classes are not as full as they would've been in-person. We are also missing a large portion of our A.M kids (p and k level) and those are our real moneymakers. I continue to worry about how long this can go on. For us, it's not a matter of applying for unemployment. Getting laid off means immediately losing housing and visa. It is possible to switch to a job-seeking visa, but that comes without insurance (which you are legally required to pay for), and without housing support. It's next to impossible to afford housing in Seoul on your own because most places require huge ($10,000+) deposits on top of monthly rent.
One of our teachers left without telling anyone (not even her closest friends). Her parents bought her a plane ticket and she skipped the country on a Friday night. I mean, I guess that's one less salary to pay, but wow. That kind of really spooked the new teachers who only just arrived right before the virus closed schools. I'm reasonably settled here and have local friends, so should the worst happen, I could probably weather it out ok, but I guess I can understand why others who feel alone in a strange country would run away when they got the chance.
Ceracera have you had anyone pull a "midnight run" there? Or do they call it something different in China? I imagine plenty of folks would've gotten out when it first started. We were between semesters at the time, so anyone who wanted to leave did so long before now. To be honest, most ex-pats now feel safer here than they would back home.
One of our teachers left without telling anyone (not even her closest friends). Her parents bought her a plane ticket and she skipped the country on a Friday night. I mean, I guess that's one less salary to pay, but wow. That kind of really spooked the new teachers who only just arrived right before the virus closed schools. I'm reasonably settled here and have local friends, so should the worst happen, I could probably weather it out ok, but I guess I can understand why others who feel alone in a strange country would run away when they got the chance.
Ceracera have you had anyone pull a "midnight run" there? Or do they call it something different in China? I imagine plenty of folks would've gotten out when it first started. We were between semesters at the time, so anyone who wanted to leave did so long before now. To be honest, most ex-pats now feel safer here than they would back home.