"midnight run" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: midnight runs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} midnight run (plural midnight runs)
  1. An unannounced departure from a teaching job at a school in Korea (or rarely elsewhere), in which a teacher leaves the job or country without warning, typically to escape abusive working conditions. Categories (place): Korea, South Korea
    Sense id: en-midnight_run-en-noun-aUpX1iv0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2009, Scott Phillips, Confessions of an Expat, page 4:",
          "text": "[…] the likelihood of them […] doing a midnight run to the airport in the dead of night after that first paycheck.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Melissa Christine Karpinski, Teaching in the Land of Kimchi: Discovering South Korea, page 51:",
          "text": "In frustration, teachers do the midnight run and managers go mad, yelling, screaming , and ripping the teachers off […]",
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          "ref": "2022, \"The Horrors I Saw at Korean Private Schools | Informer\", VICE",
          "text": "[interviewee] Do I need to midnight run? Do I need to leave, tell no-one, and speak of it nowhere? […] [comment by tleafs3638] Very recently midnight ran myself, after typical hagwon treatment to foreigners, as well as seeing a 13 year old commit suicide via jumping from their hagwon on the tenth floor. […] [comment by MrWadewynn] midnight runs are pretty damn funny. I have been a coworker of several midnight runners, and the aftermath is pretty hilarious watching the owners scramble to figure out why it happened... again lol."
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