Tae Han Tae H. Fraud of services fresno California

Although I tried to resolve this with humility and with efforts to maintain professionalism, I feel compelled to now provide my side of the story.  

Between mid-July to mid-Sept, Ive had several serious health issues that I had to endure. This is by no means meant to curb any blame from myself. No excuses. However, because of this I essentially was MIA, compounded by the fact that I did not have access to my phone for over a month towards the end.  This resulted in me losing touch/communication with 3 of my students, with all of whom I have provided resolution. Since then, I have made changes to my payment policy to help avoid this kind of situation in the future.  Keith C was one of those students. I had apologized, provided refund, and even offered some career guidance/pearls. Even offered my services free of charge. And, despite my efforts he has continued to take on a vindictive approach, and has made significantly defamatory comments that warrant immediate responses. 

I want to mention the fact that I have had over 100+ students as a tutor, with no issues of this sort in the past prior to mid-July.  I also want to mention that I currently have more than 10 active students, several of whom have been with me (including some of their siblings) prior to even COVID.  And, I continue to work with new students on a weekly basis. Keith repeatedly stated that he has seen many similar complaints/reviews on Thumbtack. I want to clarify that these are from the same people I have mentioned above and provided resolution to, or they were regarding something completely unrelated. In fact, upon resolution my Top Pro/account status had been reinstituted by Thumbtack, with Thumbtack continuing to be my most consistent platform for working with new students

Keith has blatantly made several false statements, even about my demographic/educational background.  For instance, he states that I told him that I went to Yale Med and graduated at the top of my class, and that I am a practicing physician.  That is entirely incorrect. I told him exactly what Keith even copied and pasted, into this complaint, of my bio info, which clearly states that I went to Yale Undergrad, OHSU Med School, and that I was a surgical resident. This is all clearly stated in my biography. I bring this up as an example to show that Keith does not seem to be interested on the facts and coming to a resolution, but instead actively wanting to cause further harm to me.

Also, although absolutely unprofessional in Keith’s attempt to bring in my personal/medical history and my past, completely unrelated, career history, I must address the issue of why such personal information came up in the first place. During the course of trying to seek resolution with Keith, I brought up personal issues that in hindsight should not have even been discussed.  However, I volunteered some information about myself to show empathy towards Keith after he told me that he had to redo DPM graduate school because he had failed some classes, and had been bullied.  In response, I told him my setbacks during the course of my residency career such as being let go from my program many years ago due to alcohol issues (not related to patient care), for which I humbly got treatment, and now with over 2yrs of sobriety under my belt. This was all said in confidence with the hope of providing support to him, to impress upon the fact that we can all stand back up from setbacks.  Now it seems that my good intentions are being used against me. And for him to comment on my mental health in such a ungrounded, defamatory and despicable manner is beyond understanding. How can anyone say such things without ill intent?  

Finally, the reason I contacted Keith yesterday was because I wanted to let him know that I had consulted a lawyer.  This was only after he stopped responding to me altogether.  We fully resolved our situation on Oct 21. Of course, this wasn’t before he accused me of sending him checks that could retroactively take money out of his accounts if he deposited it, which was even preceded by him telling me comments such as he would bet his life on it that the billpay checks I sent him would not even reach him in the first place. Once he finally convinced himself that the checks were real, he stopped responding.  I texted him just twice between Oct 21 till yesterday asking him if we had complete resolution, because Keith had told me that he would “take care of all the complaints” that he had made about me once he had received his refund. Furthermore, I told him yesterday that we can just squash everything but all that I ask is for him “to do the right thing.” Once again, no response and then I read his rebuttal.

I apologize about the long-winded nature of this response, but this all needed to be said after reading Keith’s most recent rebuttal.  

It seems this guy tried to change his name from Dr. Tae Ha to Dr. Tae Hoon Ha; he was on Wyzant.com which is a tutoring service where he ripped me off in August 2020. I just found 2 other complaints about him except his name is now; Dr. Tae Hoon Ha. But its the same guy. Although he sent me my money back, his ridiculous victum-like sob-story issues(money problems, relationship problems, social problems etc..) he dumps on people looking to make you feel guilty when all they want is tutoring seems to be a tactic he uses to scam people. It looks like he tried scamming 2 other people from thumbtack and varsity tutors (after he scammed me in august and then contacted me in late september to tell me how bad he feels he scammed me). Definielty watch out for this guy: Dr. Tae Hoon Ha. 

There has been a huge misunderstanding, but Keith is absolutely correct in needing a refund. No excuses; I was unable to hold up my end of our agreement due to multiple health concerns. I would like to sincerely apologize, and a full refund was provided to Keith. He has been beyond patient and understanding with assisting me in completely resolving this situation.  I wish him best of luck in his academic career.

There has been a huge misunderstanding, but Keith is absolutely correct in needing a refund. No excuses; I was unable to hold up my end of our agreement due to multiple health concerns. I would like to sincerely apologize, and a full refund was provided to Keith. He has been beyond patient and understanding with assisting me in completely resolving this situation.  I wish him best of luck in his academic career.

Hello, his name is Tae Hoon Ha. Please adjust his name so that the reports come up together. There are a total of three reports so far I noticed. There were similar stories on thumbtack.

Here is his phone #917-586-1718 (NY #)

His address in Ca:  UCSF Fresno Medical Education & Research  155 N Fresno St Fresno California 93701

Ca# 559-499-6400