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Bothy Life
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Dangjin, South Korea
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 Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:40 pm Post subject: Private tutoring |
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I have read the law and it’s still fuzzy to me. I have permission to tutor adults after hours from my director, and even use my school for the classes. Does this mean it’s legal to carry on with the plan and even advertise? Thanks. |
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Speck7
Joined: 05 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| you will be imprisoned for a max 2 years/10,000,000 won for working on the side with an E2 visa. It is not advisable. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 1:34 am Post subject: Re: Private tutoring |
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| Bothy Life wrote: |
I have read the law and it’s still fuzzy to me. I have permission to tutor adults after hours from my director, and even use my school for the classes. Does this mean it’s legal to carry on with the plan and even advertise? Thanks. |
You've got two major hurdles of legit-ness covered: owner's permission & use of school premises. To be perfectly legal, your tutoring activities should still be under the umbrella of your school's name with wages reported to the tax guys. Get all your ducks in a row & I dont see why you couldnt advertise. |
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nicwr2002
Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| Easily fix that by giving a certain percentage of your earnings to the school. What I mean is, my wife was working weekends teaching high school students and she was paid about 60/40 for a certain amount of students she gathered or even 60/30 if she were to gather more. Just have the school pay you and you'll be fine. |
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Rockhard
Joined: 11 Dec 2013
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| Well, you are assuming he has an E2 visa. If he has an F visa then it's really just a matter of getting a tax license, and after that he can do whatever he wants. |
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Jodami
Joined: 08 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:34 am Post subject: |
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I know lots of "friends" doing privates on the side. In fact, one I guy I knew worked a uni job and at 3 different hagwons on the side, at the same time.
That guy made a killing!   |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| In the past, uni jobs were less work/had less oversight and thus an unscrupulous person could get away without doing much prep to prepare for working hours. Don't tell me that "friend" was you!? (@.@) |
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swebay
Joined: 09 Jan 2014
Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Rockhard wrote: |
| Well, you are assuming he has an E2 visa. If he has an F visa then it's really just a matter of getting a tax license, and after that he can do whatever he wants. |
anymore details on this ?
I'm married to a Korean and we are coming back to Korea in a few years to retire, I won't need to work but if I get bored I can do some private lessons on whatever F visa I'll get ? F-5 or 6 I think ... |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm married to a Korean and we are coming back to Korea in a few years to retire, I won't need to work but if I get bored I can do some private lessons on whatever F visa I'll get ? F-5 or 6 I think ... |
Curious as to what you think about this (retiring here). Personally I can only put up with living here by keeping busy most of the time. When me and the Mrs have leisure time we either just chill out at home or go abroad. I'd go crazy having to go for walks and do other things retired people do among all these crowds and concrete ugliness. |
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Rockhard
Joined: 11 Dec 2013
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| swebay wrote: |
| Rockhard wrote: |
| Well, you are assuming he has an E2 visa. If he has an F visa then it's really just a matter of getting a tax license, and after that he can do whatever he wants. |
anymore details on this ?
I'm married to a Korean and we are coming back to Korea in a few years to retire, I won't need to work but if I get bored I can do some private lessons on whatever F visa I'll get ? F-5 or 6 I think ... |
You will get an F-6-1, not an F-5. Keep in mind he stated he was tutoring adults. That means it doesn't fall under board of education monitoring. Such monitoring makes tutoring legally pretty much impossible, even for Koreans. (Source: me, I've done it). If it's only adults then just a tax license from the Gu office with suffice. But I only recommended that because he is teaching out of a monitored location, so it's likely he'd get caught if he did something illegal. You'd probably be better off just doing a couple hours a day at an adult hagwon, like Wall Street or Pagoda. Let them handle everything. |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Noone cares about private tutoring, BUT dont do it in your school and dont let your boss know. I dont know him, but he may want to have that to leverage against you (unless you and him are really friendly). I keep my private stuff private and out of the school. |
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watergirl
Joined: 01 Jul 2008
Location: Ansan, south korea
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:12 am Post subject: |
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actually, yeah, it's a bit fuzzy, because your 'workplace' with immigration is your hagwon and you're teaching there. You have permission to work there right on your ARC card. So, I think you've got a good deal there. I guess there's undeclared income. I really don't see your director calling immigration as it is his workplace.
You are technically doing extra hours that are not in your contract, but that is probably most teachers in Korea. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:14 am Post subject: |
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If it's taking place at your school then it's totally legal (assuming you're declaring that income). I've known hagwon owners that were ok with that. Often they received a small percentage of what the teacher was charging (consider it payment for electricity, photocopies, coffee, etc.). Still, even if you were giving the director a small cut, it's still worth it because you can hold the classes in a more professional looking place. Much better than holding them in your living room. AND it means that you don't have to run all over the city to meet your students. They come to you.
So, short answer: Yes, it's legal. Yes, you can advertise. |
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Jodami
Joined: 08 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| In the past, uni jobs were less work/had less oversight and thus an unscrupulous person could get away without doing much prep to prepare for working hours. Don't tell me that "friend" was you!? (@.@) |
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