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> After college, Ryan said he wanted adventure and went to South Korea to teach English. One of his early lessons in entrepreneurship came there. While most for
by atomical 8y ago
> After college, Ryan said he wanted adventure and went to South Korea to teach English. One of his early lessons in entrepreneurship came there. While most foreign tutors were scraping by on next to nothing, he decided to try private tutoring by putting flyers offering his teaching services in mail boxes.
It's illegal. That's why not all English teachers in Korea are doing it.
- jxramos 8y agoPrivate tutoring is illegal?
- rconti 8y agoProbably putting flyers in mailboxes without paying for postal service to do so. Now that I stop and think about it, it's likely illegal in the US, too. Interfering with mail services might well be a federal crime. (or maybe not, I really don't know).
- atomical 8y agoIt's illegal because it isn't fair. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/youll-never-guess-what-south-korea-frowns-upon https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/youll-never-gue...
- jxramos 8y agoInteresting, looks like its unconstitutional too... """ ...that Draconian approach was the brainchild of Korea’s military leader, Chun Doo Hwan, who took power in 1980 and almost immediately banned private teaching (known as kwawoe). Chun’s goals were to equalize educational opportunities for the poor and to relieve parents of the burden of paying for education. The ban lived on until last month, when the Constitutional Court, Korea’s highest court, ruled that it is unconstitutional because it “infringes upon the basic rights of the people to educate their children.” """
- jxramos 8y agopeople usually put flyers on door knobs and door steps and other non-mail related avenues to residences. You also see the flyer tucked under the windshield wiper blade of vehicles parked in parking lots.
- atomical 8y agoYes.