Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Moondoggy]

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[Skippy]

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[Moondoggy]

[sirius black]

In the hogwons and public schools women are preferred because the ajumas who have all the power prefer women. They think women are better teachers. Oftentimes it has nothing with the quality, they go for the 'look'. They'll take a 23yo female fresh out of college over a 27 yo guy who has teaching experience, a TESOL and a teaching certificate.

Universities don't have enough women teaching. Males, specifically F visa married guys dominate many of the mid level and lower level colleges. Also, since guys tend to stay longer than women, non F visa men get a lot of the remainer jobs. So, unis want more women for balance and also oftentimes students, specifically female students often ask why there are no women teaching english.

The heirarchy, generally speaking, in Korea is as such with regards to who gets hired:
1. white female
2. white male
3. black female
4. black male

and if you're in the 'other' latino, or other ethnic group, you get lumped somewhere after white male depending a variety of factors.
Also, this heirarchy may change because of age, physical attractiveness. A handsome young white male get a job over a fat, older white female for example. Or a lighter skinned, pretty black female gets chosen over a loser looking white male. However, generally, this is the heirarchy.

It is what it is.

[Captain Corea]

From what I've heard from buds (males) working in Unis here, "messing" with students here is quite common.

Not sure if it's been mentioned in the previous 5 pages - but perhaps one reason for the preference is that it's believe the female teacher won't hump half the class.

/shrug

[Mr Lee's Monkey]

sirius black is siriusly mistaken - his 'generally speaking heirarchy' in this particular post does not reflect reality, just his supposition.

Captain Corea, on the other hand, might just be the oracle.

[World Traveler]

In terms of desirability:

1. white female
2. non-white female
3. white male
4. non-white male

By nationality:

1. American female
2. Canadian female
3. British/Aussie/Kiwi female
4. Irish female
5. South African female
6. American male
7. Canadian male
8. British/Aussie/Kiwi male
9. Irish male
10. South African male

[Soldier]

Stats please?

I know a law exists for gender equity in Korea. But stats please for the race, etc.

[I'm With You]

Canadian women with Master's degrees clean up in Korea. They get great jobs. Women are sought after by many universities because, if you look at the foreign teaching staff at a lot schools, their foreign EFL teachers are overwhelmingly male. And it doesn't matter where you go - Thailand, Taiwan, Japan - most of the teachers are men.

So, even if a female applicant is less qualified than the other male candidates, I've seen where the female applicant was hired. Simply because the dept. didn't have any female foreign EFL teachers.

A Canadian woman with an M.A. TESOL and CELTA would pretty much get any job she applies for.

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[abright1dea]

So I'm kind of just jumping into this thread but it really piqued my interest.

I'm a white female, 25 years old, blond, athletically built and above average looking.

Just starting the job search, didn't really think twice about accepting a position with good hours in the location I want (Busan), based on my generalizations of myself, what would you veterans recommend as a good salary range for me to seek? Thanks

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