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[earthquakez]

bcj - I hope you find a good job because you've done it before in Korea and people like you are better for teaching Koreans than newbies with little or no experience.

If you can, cut the recruiters out. Especially as so many of them are scumbags who are telling people to get all their documents, in most cases costing more than 250,000 won Korean a pop, and then refusing to release any job info at all to to them. Of course the ones who aren't even getting any job or contract info to LOOK at are experienced.

From the horse's mouth - a friend of mine is friends with a Korean teacher at a hagwon that employs native English speakers to teach English in one of the better parts of Seoul and he knows her Korean friends who also work at hagwons.

They've all noticed a poorer quality in the teachers their bosses have employed over the last couple of years. They too think the recruiters are pushing the inexperienced who look photogenic. The recruiters who do so on craigslist came in for criticism.

I asked about them looking at other ways to get teachers but their bosses want to deal with recruiters because they see it as easier (although in the long run it's not helping them when their teachers turn out to be less than competent etc).

All you can hope for is to get a job that's going to pay you for now and give you a free place, and in time hagwon owners might get sick of accepting recruiters' favourites and start hiring directly.