In 2023, Allison Hall, a 30-year-old American teaching English in Korea, discovered that her friends’ personal information had been posted online. It was only the beginning. The following year, Hall — then chair of the Native Teachers’ Union under the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions — found similar posts exposing union members’ personal details on a recruiting website. Private English language academies in Korea often rely on these sites to hire teachers. However, teachers say that their information can be accessed without a login and readily downloaded, while lawyers argue that the practice may violate the Personal Information Protection Act. To test the system, Hall signed up using outdated information. Her details appeared that same day. Last year, a friend told Hall that another recruiter had begun posting even more sensitive data about teachers. She repeated the test and her information was posted within a week. “All of my information was posted. My face, my name, my work experience, my age, my race, my gender, my home address, including the room number. Everything wa