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[NaturallyStacie]

Hi everyone,

I'm seriously considering moving to Korea in the fall to teach English. I want to either teach at an English town school or a public school. Does anyone here have any experience working at SNET or any other English town??

[Carbon]

I have heard nothing but negative stories from the English towns/Villages. Nothing first-hand though.

[jrwhite82]

I've heard three bad stories about English Villages from acquaintances of mine. 2 worked at one in Paju and another at one a little south of Seoul, can't remember the names of any of them.

The kids are extremely unruly. You only get them for a few days, so management is very difficult. You repeat the same materials over and over and over again so it gets boring after a month or two. Many of them have dorms. And for me (and most people I know) living in a dorm stops being fun after your 2nd year at university. They are usually outside of the major cities and require a bus with multiple transfers to get anywhere worthwhile on your own. Or take the shuttle bus and stick to that schedule. Many have you work odd schedules so you have to work on weekends and then get a day or two off during the week. (that can be a good thing though if people are nice to be around at your EV, because it means less crowds if you go somewhere during the week, but if the people suck, it will be hard to make friends with others outside the EV because of the different schedule)

The one guy I knew at the EV outside Seoul was such a moron, and it sounded like everyone he worked with was equally miserable to be around. The other two in Paju were nice and were stuck there as a last resort after their previous hagwon locked the doors one weekend and never reopened, leaving them with no job. But they hated working there.

So, I've never heard anything good about them. But, to each his own. I'm sure there are people who love/like/tolerate it.