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[thematrixiam]

hey guys.

Just wondering how much hogwans charge for an hour lessons. I am looking to start up privates with classes of up to 6 people. I was thinking 35 per hour.

my wife is telling me they pay 120 for 1 month of lessons. 5 times a week for 1 hour lessons. that's roughly 5,400 per hour... I can't imagine that being right.

[frankly speaking]

Of course it depends which area you are in. Rural parts of Korea charge that, but more Central parts of Seoul charge a little more. The last school that I worked at charged 150,000 a month. Usually schools make about 2 times what they pay their teachers for a class.

I think that you will not get any students if you are charging 35,000 an hour / per student for a group class. Many people are charging 35-40,000 just for 1-1 privates.

Again, if your desire is to start a group class, charge by the month not by the hour. Have parents pay up front 1 month at a time. You will need a classroom. I wouldn't teach in your apartment, unless you have a separate room large enough to teach and dedicated to that. Otherwise it will look shady and unprofessional. Parents won't pay a lot to have their kids sit in someone's living room with 5+ other kids.

Good luck. I hope that you are on an F2 visa.

[thematrixiam]

ya. got my f2. as well as my tutoring license which allows me to legally teach from my apartment.

well what do you think per month I should charge? I was going to do it per month anyways. 2 hours a week. I was thinking of setting up classes from beginner to advanced. and having different time slots.

should I do a scaling system for price depending on how many students are in a class. say start at 35 per hour if it's one. then go less if there are more.

Any 1 try to set up classes like this before? how'd you go about doing it? feel free to private msg me

thanks

[losing_touch]

My hagwon charges 150,000 per month. That gives students 40 minutes with a Korean teacher and 40 minutes with a foreign teacher. They come 5 days per week.

80 minutes x 5 days = 400 minutes x 4 weeks = 1600 minutes

That is roughly 26.5 hours.

150,000 / 26.5 = less than 5,600 per hour.

I would say your wife is right.

[John_ESL_White]

Depends on how you sell yourself. I have korean friends with apt hagwons who charge 200K/month. The parents who want their kids to have an hour per week with a FT pay more.

My K friend also recommended that I charge 230K/mo for 3 classes/ wk for my own classes. I haven't had any parents cough at that amount. They've been happy to pay it.

I'm not in the country though. Country folk might want a reduced rate.

Sais K friend has been doing apt hagwon teaching for 8 years now. She's really, really good. When she first started, she paid for a YBM homeschool franchise which cost too damn much and didn't do much for her. After 6 months, she just did everything on her own: advertising, books, etc.

There's a lot of money in apt., schools for F2s. It takes about a two months to get off the ground and start making that money. So, make sure you have a nest egg for the first two months.

Do NOT undersell yourself.

If possible, hire a korean English-e teacher to help you. You can get a PT K eng teacher for 800,000 to 1.5 million, depending on their age and experience. Trust me; you wont even miss 1 million won/month once you get rolling.

1 student X 3, 50 minute classes a week = 200K +/month.


If you are the only FT with a homeschool in your apt complex, you can get 30-50 students in 4 months.

good luck.

[T-J]

[thematrixiam]

[T-J]

[John_ESL_White]

[ontheway]

[John_ESL_White]

lol. yes. please obey the law. lol.

JFC

[meangradin]

[Juregen]

[thematrixiam]

well to clear things up.

I have my f2.
I have my tutoring license.
And the 7,500/90,000 is way off what my license clearly states I am legally allowed to charge.

I can have a max of 9 per class. I am thinking 6. Just makes my life easier.

not sure of the legality of hiring someone to help out. But having my wife around would probably help. I have never used a korean teacher/helper for teaching before.

I originally have it set so I was going to do 5 beginner classes 2 times a week. 4 intermediate 2 times a week. And 4 advanced 1 time a week. max 6 per class.

I was thinking of charging all six people 35 per hour. which comes out to about 280 per month.
if I go by the rate of 200 for 3 days a week, that's roughly 16,666 per hour. it ends up to be 133 per month.

[meangradin]