| Why You Came to Us | Think back to why you applied through an agency in the first place. Most people don't know Korea's visa process well and want a safe placement without navigating it alone, that's exactly what we're here for. And it isn't one-sided, even if you're thinking you and the school could just sort things out between the two of you, the school wants a professional, safe process through us too. It's genuinely easier for them to route this through people who handle it every day than to have one of their own staff dedicated to just you |
| What Skipping Us Risks | If you deal only with the school and something goes wrong later, unpaid wages, a broken contract, we're not positioned to step in. We also vet institutions in advance, sometimes a place turns out to be unable to register a foreign teacher at all. Going around us removes that filter |
| Why the School Uses Us Too | Visa paperwork is specialized, and a school generally wants to focus on teaching rather than take on that legal exposure themselves. Routing it through people who handle this daily protects both sides |
| Being Told Not to Trust Us | If an employer claims the agency has been saying bad things about you, ask yourself if that even makes sense. We only get paid when a placement actually works out, so what would we gain from undermining you? And consider the source, trying to turn you against the people handling your visa isn't the behavior of someone acting in good faith either |
| School Handled It Alone | A school's own admin team missed a document because a rule had changed and they didn't know. With no agency coordinating the fix, the correction window passed, and the teacher had to leave and reapply from scratch, on their own time and cost |
| Going Quiet Has Real Costs | Ignoring document requests and dealing only with the school can mean arriving at your immigration appointment with something missing. A failed appointment over it also makes it harder for an agency to vouch for you smoothly the next time |
| Immigration Outranks the School | If a director says "we're fine with it," that carries no legal weight with immigration. When something goes wrong, the fine and the consequences land on you, not the school |
| "Let's Just Deal Directly" | Sometimes a school offers to cut the agency out and add our fee straight to your pay. It's a genuinely tempting offer, but think carefully about what it means to start by working around an agreement you already made with us. Ask yourself honestly, is a school that promised to communicate through the agency, but now wants a side deal behind that agreement, actually being an honest school? Real cases exist of teachers who took the extra pay and worked off the books, only for the school to stop paying wages for months. One case turned into a lawsuit that has dragged on for years. If that arrangement falls apart, an agency that was never part of it has no standing to step in and help you |
| Money Requested Outside the Process | Occasionally a school asks a teacher directly for a "visa deposit" or admin fee. Without an agency in the loop to confirm what's legitimate, a payment like that can simply go unanswered along with the school afterward |
| Asked to Work Somewhere Your Visa Doesn't Cover | E-2 status is tied to your registered institution. Being pressured to cover a different branch or a different age group without proper authorization is a real violation, and if it's ever inspected, you're the one who has to answer for it |