Korean Job Discussion Forums

[The Great Toad]

I am not impressed with the wages in Korea- nor the hours. 2,200,000 million (2,000 US Dollars) Korean Won to work 8 hours and 15 minutes a day? I guess I lack the energy and motivation to drive through a solid smile freeze time of 5-6 English Tourist classes. It would be great if you were really a dynamo and all charisma since you would never see the same Korean Village tourist again after their week or day tour was done.

http://www.eslcafe.com/jobs/korea/index.cgi?read=74024

I looked at some Korean job recruiter web pages and they offer the flat rate of 2 million to a few 2.6 million as well. 2,6 million is really only like 2,200 dollars after Korean tax and health care gets taken out.

But generally I do not understand why anyone would go work in Korea these days over a job in Thailand or Vietnam that would also pay 2000 dollars a month and offer a cheaper lifestyle. Maybe I missing the good 10 hour a week 2,500,000 Won university teaching jobs that make people come work in Korea.

please give me a PM if you find a 2.6+ Million job at a girls high school I can teach in that will entail the Korean teachers constantly canceling my classes so I end up only teaching 12-15 classes a week like in my last Korean experience.

I am still angry I was not rehired on in South Korea 2 years ago when I reapplied. Yes, I made much more in Arab nations and now in my SE Asia job but I do not see why the EPIK program turned me down when I was willing to work for a paltry 2.5 or 2.6 pay level. I think I am going to sue the EPIK Seoul office for discrimination against old experienced white guy teachers in the Hague International Court.

[SuperfuzzBigmuff]

I returned to Korea on 2.5 mill with an extra 150,000 in the public school system.

I think 2.0 mill in Korea is better than $2,000 in Vietnam or Thailand as those countries don't offer the "golden hanshake". That being pension, entry and exit allowance, bonus. You get the same coin every month, too; as opposed to hourly work in VN and Thailand.

I work about 17 hours a week and I'm severely underworked.

[Chia Pet]

[SuperfuzzBigmuff]

[ttompatz]

[kpjf]

[kpjf]

[BigBuds]

[ttompatz]

Yes, but not an option for 99.9% of TEFL teachers in Korea.

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[Wangja]

[Chia Pet]

[young_clinton]

[SuperfuzzBigmuff]

@ChiaPet.

Having over 11 years of experience, 8 of them post-CELTA, I think 2.5 MINUMUM is OK for the PS in Korea. It's not my fault I was underused and that Korean high school students, well, my one's in a rural school at least, didn't give two hoots about speaking English.

If you've been in Korea a while and you're still teaching kids on 2.1, you've got no one but yourself to blame. That's for the Brads and Chads and Stacies straight out of Kansas with their useless degrees to do.

I am by no means elitist, but I do have certain expectations on account of my experience as a teacher. Most hagwons, not all, but most, involve teaching young learners which involves a little classroom management and high energy levels and thus those who teach in that context deserve to be paid peanuts.

I do think though, that some teachers who arrive green and who hang around the public system get overpaid. I met a girl just before I left Korea who was making more than I was as she had been in the system for longer. I doubt she could be thrown in any class in any context at any time like I could, but that's how the pay scale works; stick around and you're on decent money.

[Biblethumper]

Man does live by bread alone. We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. Having food and raiment let us be therewith content. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

Most teachers I have ever met in Korea treat their job like a McDonald's job: punch in, punch out, do the minimum and whine copiously.

[SuperfuzzBigmuff]