Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jonbowman88]

Many Korean teachers here make like 5 million won/month after teaching here 15-20 yrs. EPIK teachers max out at like 2.6. Are there jobs out there that will pay like that for foreign teachers?

[Juregen]

[PRagic]

1) University teaching positions for MA holders (and in some cases BA holders ) where the university does not impose term limits.

2) Tenure track university positions a

3) The Hong Kong NET program. Sorry, not Korea, and I think there is a cap, but it's pretty high.

[robot]

4) Hagwons. The most unlimited of these four -- depending on the hagwon, of course.

[Ed Provencher]

[PRagic]

Don't kid yourself. Hakwons have a cap for salaried workers. Just ask the Hakwon Association.

The only way around it is to work as a 'private contractor' at the hakwon and get paid by the student rather than on salary. Of course, this means that you can kiss any benefits, including your housing and insurance, goodbye. It also means that they'll want you performing as much as possible to maximize the return on 'their space'. To begin, you might make a 30% cut. You'll be working splits and teaching 8 classes a day, at least that's the way it used to work. It's no less a meat grinder at prep academies and teenie crapwons, either.

There's a method to their madness.

[sobriquet]

prostitution.

[IIILALALAIII]

[quote="sobriquet"]prostitution.[/quote]


is this all you can think of?

whatever you say, it describes you.

shame on you.

[sobriquet]

[PRagic]

On the one hand, it's better to just ignore the inane comments from the under 25 crowd. On the other hand, some people need the negative reinforcement to drive home the point that they're just not amusing what-so-ever. Eventually, they'll get it. If not, they'll go through life with everyone around them just shaking their heads or shrugging, thinking, 'What a schmuck.' Sad, really.

[mnhnhyouh]

The only people I have met that earned those big bucks, who I believed, worked their arses off.

One person doubled her ps salary by doing privates until about 11pm every night, 4 days a week.

The other works for CDI, and occasionally makes that sort of money, but has to provide her own housing, and gets no benefits. She worked long hours and weekends for that sort of money.

5 million jobs, 40 hours a week do exist in Korea, but you need real skills to get them, not teaching English in normal teaching jobs.

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[sobriquet]

One would presume that a decent international school would have no salary caps here.

Not Kims 'International' school, but somewhere that expats send their kids. Something similar to Harrow in Bangkok or IBS

However most decent internationals are not going to hire in country. They also only hire qualified teachers, not people with degrees in yak farming or such like.

[PRagic]

I don't know. See choice 1 above. I have a load of friends in university ESL positions who make 5 million a month and they don't work anywhere near 40 hours a week! Those jobs aren't handed out on a plate though, and the ones that make it possible to make 5 million a month are getting harder to come by. It takes some doing, and the MA doesn't hurt either. Like other markets in other countries, it never hurts to invest in yourself.

[sobriquet]

Coming to think of it, I have never heard of any international schools in Seoul.


What are the best expat type schools that to do IB

[PRagic]

Very good point, but there are even fewer of those positions than the others mentioned previously! I've met quite a few of the internatinoal school teachers and they are indeed very professional. Don't know how their salaries are structered, but I don't think they have term limits or caps.