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[peppermintty]

Recently I was offered an interview with Gwanak SLP. After doing a search on the forums I only found one recent thread mentioning that specific branch and another thread from 2006. Neither were very helpful.

Does anyone have any experiences with this hagwon? I'm a little skittish about hagwon positions in general.

Also, if anyone does have experiences, any interview tips? I will probably interview regardless, just so I don't totally dismiss the option.

[The Sultan of Seoul]

Worked there in 2003. Long time ago, but everyone there was happy. The owner / director was a Korean man named T-J, so if he's there, I'd say you'll be fine.

I would have to add though that the happy ones were doing the (aprox)1pm - 9pm afternoon - evening shift teaching ele and mid school kids.

Me and another did the kindy / ele gig 9am - 5pm and it was downright exhausting. Lots of contact time and monthly phone calling too. Wouldn't do that kind of gig (kindy) for less than 2.7 / 2.8mil now. The aft - eve shift though seemed pretty cushy and I highly envied those guys.

But yeah, there were 9 of us waygs there back then and it was a well run hakwan, own set curriculum, nice bosses and co-workers and it's a nice little area in pretty much downtown Seoul with decent food and some nice small mountains and only a few stops from gangnam. You could do slightly better but you could do far far worse. Apartments were small, very small one rooms but not unliveable I guess, though the one I had was the smallest I have had in SK in the 8 yrs I was there. Liveable though and a decent atmosphere at the school.

Well, that WAS 9 years ago, so kinda outdated I guess, though I imagine if the same guy still runs it, things wont have changed too much, everyone seemed to like him.

[peppermintty]