Korean Job Discussion Forums

[creeper1]

Wow. All I am used to seeing these days is "Female Only". I never thought I'd see a job only wanting a male but that's what there is.

http://seoul.craigslist.co.kr/edu/2106864631.html

MALE TEACHER ONLY IN JAMSIL


- Starting Date : Feb 7th

- Student Type : Kinder(mainly) -elementary School students

- Working hours : 9 : 00 - 6 : 00 (prep time included)

- Location : Jamsil

- Salary : 2.1-2.3Mil Won (depends on qualification)

-Medical insurance, severance payment and airfare

- Housing : Single near the school

-Male teacher only

- American candidate only

[BoholDiver]

Maybe they got a couple of western girls who were total hypochondriacs or did a few runners. Might as well give a man a chance.

[RMNC]

There's some kind of affirmative action in South Korea, right?

[ThingsComeAround]

[interestedinhanguk]

[Troglodyte]

I've seen ads for jobs where they only wanted a man. They aren't common, but they come up from time to time. Usually it's because they had a bad experience with a woman teacher so they just hire guys now.

[interestedinhanguk]

Start looking through the job boards. There are a fair number (though a minority) looking to hire males, kindy included.

[Who's Your Daddy?]

Saw a job teaching navy officers before in Jinhae. I think they'd be attentive; image the discipline if they screw around.

The job was pretty good, but the accommodation was on base (is it a base for navy?).

[sirius black]

[earthquakez]

Why any men would want to work at a kindy in Korea (which means no careerpath unlike some men who work back home in them and are treated like real workers instead of ones to dump when somebody who looks better comes along) for less than 2.6 million won wiping Korean kids' arses, cleaning up their piss because toilet training from the parents seems less effective or thorough here, watching while they scream and punch each other and run around the room is totally beyond me.

Traditionally and even now more women do those kinds of jobs. But what I said applies to the foreign women as well.

The overwhelming majority of kindy jobs for foreign men and women are just dogsbody jobs. Even when you teach kindy and other levels it's more a matter of convenience for the hagwon owner to shove all those levels in the teaching schedule of the foreigner. Don't teach any place with kindy kids for less than 2.3 milion won. Even then it's not really worth it. Imagine having 10 days or less vacation teaching them....