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shinfish
Joined: 02 Sep 2011
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 Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:48 pm Post subject: Teaching in Korea, as a Dutch citizen? |
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Starting from February 2012 I can finally refer to myself as a college graduate. As there is a 6 month gap between my graduation and the start of the next academic semester in Holland, I am inclined to look for an adventurous solution to spend my time.
I will be looking for a 3-4 month contract.
I do not own a passport from a country that has English as its native tongue.
I will have a TESOL certificate.
I have taught elementary school kids in the past.
My degree is Art related.
Judging from the list above, do I stand a chance at landing a job (as either an Art or English teacher) in Korea?
I have looked around quite a bit and mailed an abundant of Hagwons without any success so far. |
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Setaro
Joined: 08 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching in Korea, as a Dutch citizen? |
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| shinfish wrote: |
Starting from February 2012 I can finally refer to myself as a college graduate. As there is a 6 month gap between my graduation and the start of the next academic semester in Holland, I am inclined to look for an adventurous solution to spend my time.
I will be looking for a 3-4 month contract.
I do not own a passport from a country that has English as its native tongue.
I will have a TESOL certificate.
I have taught elementary school kids in the past.
My degree is Art related.
Judging from the list above, do I stand a chance at landing a job (as either an Art or English teacher) in Korea?
I have looked around quite a bit and mailed an abundant of Hagwons without any success so far. |
You won't be able to teach, not legally. I'm sure some hagwon might hire you illegally. By the way I know a Dutch guy here who teaches some Dutch classes at a Uni (part-time, legally) but he's married to a Korean. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching in Korea, as a Dutch citizen? |
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| shinfish wrote: |
Starting from February 2012 I can finally refer to myself as a college graduate. As there is a 6 month gap between my graduation and the start of the next academic semester in Holland, I am inclined to look for an adventurous solution to spend my time.
I will be looking for a 3-4 month contract.
I do not own a passport from a country that has English as its native tongue.
I will have a TESOL certificate.
I have taught elementary school kids in the past.
My degree is Art related.
Judging from the list above, do I stand a chance at landing a job (as either an Art or English teacher) in Korea?
I have looked around quite a bit and mailed an abundant of Hagwons without any success so far. |
Unless you hold a passport from one of the English speaking countries you can rule out ESL/EFL. You won't be able to get a visa.
Unless you have a teaching license you won't get a job teaching anything "art related".
There are no jobs in the 3-4 month category other than 30-60 day English camps In Jan or July of 2012 and they won't pay enough to cover your airfare (you couldn't get a visa anyway - wrong passport).
Sorry. Try Eastern Europe or the Med. You MAY find something in SE Asia (no visa or work permit) but you would have to actually BE THERE.
They wouldn't import you or go to the trouble of obtaining the necessary visa or work permits for a short timer.
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shinfish
Joined: 02 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the swift replies.
I know now I probably don't stand a chance for the amount of effort I am willing to put in this case. I've been searching around a quite bit so far and I have stumbled across the same answers, perhaps it's time to give up my stubbornness, for now!
If anyone do happens to find a (legal) way to teach somewhere short term, please do throw me a pm! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| shinfish wrote: |
Thanks for the swift replies.
I know now I probably don't stand a chance for the amount of effort I am willing to put in this case. I've been searching around a quite bit so far and I have stumbled across the same answers, perhaps it's time to give up my stubbornness, for now!
If anyone do happens to find a (legal) way to teach somewhere short term, please do throw me a pm! |
LEGAL work is possible for you in western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia Minor (the middle east). Short term jobs in Turkey, Spain, Italy, Russia, etc, where the visa is much less of an issue or not needed at all for you.
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oujibdelamere
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Belgium
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| I do not own a passport from a country that has English as its native tongue. |
I know that Korea is really strict with their "seven country" policy, and that there are other countries in Asia with this requirement, but ... my mother is Belgian, non-native, and she taught ESL for many years (in an international school) when we lived in Malaysia.
Of course, for jobs where you 1) don't HAVE to be a certified teacher and 2) are only committing to a shorter contract, the citizenship/native English thing may be a more common requirement. |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| You might be able to do China. |
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Maple Leaves
Joined: 10 May 2011
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| If you don't care about making money, Georgia would be an option. |
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jeremysums
Joined: 08 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Teaching in Korea, as a Dutch citizen? |
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One of my friends is teaching in China, she thought about pulling a runner.
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Starting from February 2012 I can finally refer to myself as a college graduate. As there is a 6 month gap between my graduation and the start of the next academic semester in Holland, I am inclined to look for an adventurous solution to spend my time.
I will be looking for a 3-4 month contract.
I do not own a passport from a country that has English as its native tongue.
I will have a TESOL certificate.
I have taught elementary school kids in the past.
My degree is Art related.
Judging from the list above, do I stand a chance at landing a job (as either an Art or English teacher) in Korea?
I have looked around quite a bit and mailed an abundant of Hagwons without any success so far. |
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comfortable.chairs
Joined: 18 Sep 2011
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I knew a German who taught at a kindergarten in Bundang. He WAS NOT an English teacher - it was a German style kindergarten and he had a working holiday visa and was just a kindergarten teacher. Don't know exactly how he found the job, but he was not a college graduate. He was taking a year off before university. He was also really into Korean culture - spoke Korean very well, spent all his free time hanging out in the bike shop or Family Mart speaking Korean with the clerks/customers.
Anyway, you might want to look into something like that. There are some options, but they are pretty few and far between. |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching in Korea, as a Dutch citizen? |
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| shinfish wrote: |
Starting from February 2012 I can finally refer to myself as a college graduate. As there is a 6 month gap between my graduation and the start of the next academic semester in Holland, I am inclined to look for an adventurous solution to spend my time.
I will be looking for a 3-4 month contract.
I do not own a passport from a country that has English as its native tongue.
I will have a TESOL certificate.
I have taught elementary school kids in the past.
My degree is Art related.
Judging from the list above, do I stand a chance at landing a job (as either an Art or English teacher) in Korea?
I have looked around quite a bit and mailed an abundant of Hagwons without any success so far. |
Based on your citizenship....no legal job in the ESL industry in korea.
But...stranger things have happened!
You never know unless you try....
and who knows...might be some way around the requirements....
marry a korean....???? |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: Teaching in Korea, as a Dutch citizen? |
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| hellofaniceguy wrote: |
| shinfish wrote: |
Starting from February 2012 I can finally refer to myself as a college graduate. As there is a 6 month gap between my graduation and the start of the next academic semester in Holland, I am inclined to look for an adventurous solution to spend my time.
I will be looking for a 3-4 month contract.
I do not own a passport from a country that has English as its native tongue.
I will have a TESOL certificate.
I have taught elementary school kids in the past.
My degree is Art related.
Judging from the list above, do I stand a chance at landing a job (as either an Art or English teacher) in Korea?
I have looked around quite a bit and mailed an abundant of Hagwons without any success so far. |
Based on your citizenship....no legal job in the ESL industry in korea.
But...stranger things have happened!
You never know unless you try....
and who knows...might be some way around the requirements....
marry a korean....???? |
That would not change much...still not from a native speaker so many jobs would turn him down as even on a F visa you need to meet the basic requirements of the job to work there, in this case: a BA from a University in one of gthe 7 approved countries along with a passport from said country... |
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I see jobs in Europe advertised for "EU nationals ONLY" all the time. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Home sweet home
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| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Just because you're not a native speaker doesn't mean that you can't teach English. There are E1 and E7 visas that you can teach on as well. |
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minos
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
Location: kOREA
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| Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Some countries have working holiday visa. Then park your butt at a hostel and do under the table work. |
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