Korean Job Discussion Forums

[chaz47]

I'm on the downslope of my current public school gig and thinking of my options.

While this public school experience was by far better than my first, there has been a lot of dog and pony and petty lying... in the name of traditional Korean culture I'm sure. Still, I have had my fill of it for awhile.

I was thinking of CDI in one of the smaller cities. I should be able to use my savings to get a JeonSae housing contract and therefore save a bit more in addition to that fat hourly CDI pay.

Any thoughts.

Outside of this I was hoping for a country university or the Westgate university program in Japan. If I opt for Westgate then I'll probably do a CELTA in Thailand before the start of the semester in May. Does CDI offer any more money to CELTA holders?

Does that CELTA school in Phuket still exist?

[Voyeur]

CDI is now offering pay packages all across the spectrum. You really need to be geting 30k+ an hour to consider it IMO.

At 32k+ you should accept - it is pretty much a no-brainer IMO.

30-31 make it a tougher decision.

28k-29k is only acceptable if you plan on being here 2-3 more years. In that case your first year can be "paying your dues" and you will make enough in year 2-3 to compensate.

[chaz47]

So with my 2.5 years and a BA I'd be looking at.... $ ?

Do they offer any additional pay to those with TEFL cert.?

Do they have branches in Daegu?

What sorts of horror stories does anyone have that they'd like to share?

I've heard that the work weeks can be 6 days in length, I would think that this is the lot of the salaried employee and not the hourly wage employee.

Please don't be a weisenheimer and tell me to use the search function.