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[Pantomime Amnesiac]

Can anyone recommend any reputable telephone or online teaching gigs for Korean-based teachers?

What are the rates of pay like, and what, if any, are the visa requirements?

And how do you get paid, and how often, and is it taxed?

What are the hours normally like?

I'm looking for a sideline.

Cheers!

[notafbiagent]

I work for a telephone English tutoring company. I won't say the name since I'm not too clear about the rule on that here on Daves but let's just say if you''ve ever ridden a cab in Seoul, you've heard of us.

Pay rate depends on experience (both personal and time spent with the company.) Also, the pay varies between companies but most, if not all, do not pay as well as hogwons and definitely not as well as private tutoring. As for paying on time, if you go with the bigger companies it is almost never an issue. What does become an issue is total minutes logged(which is how most people are paid) but if you have a decent manager you can work that out pretty easily. There are a whole lot of shady companies though so do your research on each company. There are only a handful of trustworthy telephone/online teaching companies, others are a coin toss at best.

Honestly, its mostly a part time gig if you're starting out. If you're established in the industry you get paid competitive with most hogwons. But that takes time which many of the English teachers in Korea do not have, or at least are not willing to invest in.

As far as visa requirements go, most of the telephone English companies you'll find online are trash and will not be able to sponsor your visa. They're nothing more than an office to take orders to reroute to another company that actually handles the lessons. Some of the bigger ones can and will sponsor your E-whatever visas as long as you don't have existing problems with immigration. Unfortunately, it might be difficult for you to find these companies since even some of the biggest companies use outsourced call centers in Phillipines, US, Canada, etc. and do not actively recruit in Korea.

Depending on which company you find hours vary but the industry standard is early morning and late afternoons-night. Most companies will allow you to choose your own working hours, anywhere between 5am to midnight, and only assign you students who have signed up for that block of time. For example, if you only wanted to teach during 10am~12am you'll only get students who applied for that time. Of course, if you want more volume you want the more desired hours like 6am~8am and 7pm~10pm.

So basically, if you find that you have nothing to do for a few hours each day telephone/online English is a pretty decent gig for a little bit of extra cash. Not much, but probably enough to cover a few expenses or a few nights out on the town.

[Pantomime Amnesiac]

Is it a problem if you already have a visa?

Drop me a PM if you have any specific recommendations.

I don't have enough posts to initiate contact with other posters here yet.



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PS Sample rates?