Korean Job Discussion Forums

[bassexpander]

[plus99]

wasnt this thread also supposed to be about mexicans comin to take our jabs?

[Julius]

[Julius]

[R. S. Refugee]

So, it looks like our bud, Lee Joo Ho, who was quoted in the OP has made good and been appointed the presidential secretary for education, science and cultural affairs.

Pictured above he is top row, far right. I wonder if his being far right means anything in particular.

[nicholas_chiasson]

-Is it just me or those the bottom guy second from right look bi-racial?

[bassexpander]

[MissSeoul]

Hiring Philippinoes/Indians probably start with public schools and once it starts, it's going to move fast....
The Philippinoes/Indians are going to fight to get teaching jobs in korea even if the pay goes down 1.5 mil, they are going to be hard workers and also appreciate their oppertunity to be teachers in korea.
Sometimes attitude is more important than ability ( accent ), especially concerning education for children.

I am very much suppot hiring Philippino/Indian teachers, especially since join this forum.

So native white teachers for Hakwons and Philippinoes/Indians for public schools, it's not bad idea.

[bassexpander]

[hari seldon]

[indytrucks]

[PGF]

[Adventurer]

[Len8]

Teachers from the Phillipines or India will probably pick up Korean faster, and eventually become bilingual. They will speak two languages anyway, so it wont be hard for them to pick up a third language. That's a plus for them. Now they might perhaps fit in to the community better than someone from a western country for various cultural reasons, and might facilitate the learning of English better, because Koreans who don't want to speak might not feel so intimidated about speaking up with someone from a similar cultural background.

They also might feel used when they see what western native speakers were earning for doing the same amount of work. Can't see them settling for less knowing that they are being ripped off to work harder than former expat teachers.

At the university I was at in Kyungju, we taught a two week English refresher session with highschool and middle school teachers during the summer and winter breaks. We were paid extra for our efforts as well. Now there were about 75 teachers from the Kyungpoake province at each session, and three native speaker teachers. Point of fact is that all of them bar 2 spoke excellent English. Lot had been exchange teachers at schools in the U.S. There complaint about English was the fact that they just don't use it. The more they don't use it then the harder it is that they will be able to teach with it. They said they had to attend the two week sessions, and that it was the only time they really were able to converse in English. When they return to their schools they will be enthusiastic about speaking English for about a month because of the refresher program, but will eventually slip back into using only Korean.

[Skippy]

The one thing people are forgetting about with hiring Indians and Phillipinos would the still need a University Degree (BA). I think people are thinking they will take any fillipino with a good accent can get a job. Plus include getting a criminal check that reduces the amount of Filipinos coming a taking jobs.

Anyways - Koreans are still racist. It would take years for a school to maybe accept a foreigner. Buy then a Hagwon with a Filipino has lost most of it students to a White Faced Foreigner at the one around the corner. Of Indians and Philipino the most likely to be accept in Fillipino. Indians and Pakistanis would be too brown for the Koreans.