Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Eedoryeong]

We're about to help negotiate the rate for a Korean to teach at a hakwon and we're trying to find the going rate for a Korean teacher running a young English learners program (grades 1,2,3).

In my estimation the positives and negatives weighing in on the final rate:
+ bringing a successful program
+ director already stated she's a great teacher
+ small area, very hard to get any teachers let alone good teachers

- small area also means less students? The program still has to pay for itself.
- Korean bias against their own, even well-suited Koreans

I'm thinking it'll be 25K/hr. Dreamland or low-balling it?

[fortysixyou]

Are you talking by the hour or by the class?

I know a dude whose K-wife gets 35,000 a class, but she's got the good TOEFL score and experience.

[teachteach]

25/k an hour would be more than the $17 per hour most waygooks make.

[ttompatz]

Most K-teachers (teaching English to young learners in a hakwon) max out at about 12-15k per (class) hour.

IF they are new to teaching, 1 mil per month is the normal starting wage and most are very happy when they finally get up to 1.6 mil per month.

25k per hour is unrealistic in a FLI setting. You can ask for it but don't be surprised when she doesn't get a job.

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[Sapa]

so does that mean in most hagwons the foreign teachers are earning more than the korean ones?

[pkang0202]

I don't think many of us realize just how much work the Korean teachers at hagwons gotta do. They have to call every students parents. It doesn't matter if no one picks up the phone, you have to keep calling 24/7 until you talk to them.

On top o f that, they have to deal what the bitching parents have about children.


I'd say, pay your Korean teacher the same as a Foreign teacher, minus the housing. They will spread the word that their job is great and the pay is good, and you won't have problems with teachers.

Most hagwons have a revolving door of Korean teachers because the stress is too much for the amount they get paid.

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[Eedoryeong]

Hi and thanks everyone

well in this case the K-teacher is experienced and has taught before both in public school and in a hakwon. She'd be hired for 4 or 5 hours a day, and only to teach and prepare. Calling parents, translating for the foreign teacher and other administrative office duties (that are normally unloaded on Korean female employees in a hakwon office) will not be part of the job.

Also, the director is offering to take over the class during her maternity leave (she's pregnant. As I understand it, Korean mothers-to-be usually do not get hired for work) if she returns after what would in a public school considered to be maternity leave. So I'm guessing that he knows the teacher is good.

4 hours a day for 5 days a week. I'm thinking we're probably going to suggest 25K. That's 2 mill a month.

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