Hi Julio! No, EPIK got 18 days + national holidays, but I think it’s increased to 21? days since I’ve been away. But EPIk gets to take them in chunks. Universities can garner vacations like 4-6 weeks depending on your uni.

@Malou: Are you serious?! Damn- they’re lucky. Well, it’s an EPIK contract which is up to our DMOE to enforce. Daegu is the 3rd largest city in Korea so it’s understandable our DMOE might be more Nazi. Was reading Korea Diva’s blog and it seems like their contract on the vacation time is enforced in Busan. Last year, she spent her school’s winter vacation in her school office! I really don’t get the logic of making us come in when the entire school is closed. That’s just cruel. But here’s an interesting question I recently came up with… aside from that additional 5 day vacation reward for Teacher’s Excellence that people are now trying to get with their schools, do we have unpaid vacation days that we can use? That’s another angle.