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cashmoney805



Joined: 24 Jan 2011
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:11 am    Post subject: Time to start looking/qualifications Reply with quote
Hey everyone, I've recently been thinking about teaching in Korea and would like to start some time in the late summer/early fall. I've read that the school year in Korea starts in March, so is starting late summer/early fall out of the question? I could probably start around May at the earliest because I still need to do a ton of research.

Also, one quick question about qualifications. Does it matter where you went to college in the US, or do schools not really care?

Thanks for the help!
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Junior



Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm sure your intentions as a serious teacher are entirely noble and you are not in it just for personal financial gain, cashmoney805.
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cashmoney805



Joined: 24 Jan 2011
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Junior wrote:
I'm sure your intentions as a serious teacher are entirely noble and you are not in it just for personal financial gain, cashmoney805.

actually, this is a handle I've been using for a solid 12 years now and oddly enough doesn't have anything to do with money.

Now, do you have something meaningful to contribute or are you just going to be a jerk?
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jlee83



Joined: 20 Sep 2010
Location: Gangnam
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It won't matter.

Unless you come from a top-tier university (think well known Ivy League), no one's going to care.
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cashmoney805



Joined: 24 Jan 2011
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
jlee83 wrote:
It won't matter.

Unless you come from a top-tier university (think well known Ivy League), no one's going to care.

Well, I do, which is why I ask. I just don't like throwing it out there because pretension sucks.
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cyui



Joined: 10 Jan 2011
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
What school do you go to? BTW;I don't think it is correct to use pretension as a noun.

I think that you would need to use a verb of 'being", "doing or "having"
status ( maybe prestressing or pretenious in ones' own context)?

Why don't you ask your Alumni Board? That is what they are there for. (Just don't use the phrase "cash money" in front of them.. :wink:)
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northway



Joined: 05 Jul 2010
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Word of warning, while your school might be top notch in the States, Koreans likely won't know it unless it's Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, or maybe Duke and Berkeley.

Cyui, you're very, very wrong: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pretension.
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nathanrutledge



Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
cashmoney805 wrote:
jlee83 wrote:
It won't matter.

Unless you come from a top-tier university (think well known Ivy League), no one's going to care.

Well, I do, which is why I ask. I just don't like throwing it out there because pretension sucks.


Too late.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Time to start looking/qualifications Reply with quote
cashmoney805 wrote:
Hey everyone, I've recently been thinking about teaching in Korea and would like to start some time in the late summer/early fall. I've read that the school year in Korea starts in March, so is starting late summer/early fall out of the question? I could probably start around May at the earliest because I still need to do a ton of research.

Also, one quick question about qualifications. Does it matter where you went to college in the US, or do schools not really care?

Thanks for the help!


Fall is not a bad time to start. There is a major recruitment for public schools Apr-Jun with orientation and jobs starting in mid August.

Irregardless of how "prestigious" your school was, when you get off the plane you are just another "green as grass" newbie at the entry level of ESL.

Most schools don't care where you come from; they are only interested in your white face, American accent and the fact that you qualify for an E2 visa.

It is immigration who cares that you have a degree and they could care less if you graduated summa-cum-laude (hyphens to get around the swear filter) from Harvard or barely scraped a 2.0 GPA at Podunk-U.

Want to get a leg up (at least a bump in pay) get a 100 hour TESOL/TEFL cert before you apply.

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cyui



Joined: 10 Jan 2011
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
How was he using the word? It is the root of a pretentiousness "being" ( adverb)..ie showing a level vanity,

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pretension

Scroll over the verb usage..and just what is he staking a claim or right or merit over? How can merit be a thing, as it is described in this context.

Now, he could have used it as an adjective and said he needs to appear pretensionless for the sake of hiding his status and thus decreasing this appearance of great vanity.

Last edited by cyui on Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:07 pm; edited 1 time in total
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daskalos



Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
cyui wrote:
How was he using the word? It is the root of a pretentiousness "being" ( adverb)..ie showing a level vanity,

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pretension

Scroll over the verb usage..and just what is he staking a claim or right or merit over? How can merit be a thing, as it is described in this context.

Now, he could have used it as an adjective and said he needs to appear pretensionless for the sake of hiding his status and thus decreasing this appearance of great vanity.


Yes, I'm sure you're right. He could have found some more clear way of expressing his pretensionlessness. Rolling Eyes
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