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[Troglodyte]

You might find a place in Seoul or Busan that would consider hiring you to teach French. The demand definitely isn't as great as for English, Chinese and Japanese but it's there. You might end up teaching middle-aged house wives who want something to do in the afternoon. Since the demand isn't so high, you might end up getting a very low base salary with only a few fixed hours per week and make most of your money on "overtime". Job security will depend on how well you can retain and recruit more students, so charisma will probably play a bigger role than your actual ability to teach.

One point that needs to be made is in regard to your nationality. I didn't notice if you mentioned it, so sorry if you did and I missed it. If you're from France, you can get an E2 visa to teach French. If you're from Canada, you're out of luck. It wouldn't matter if French was the only language you know and you have a PhD in French language teaching, because Korea doesn't consider Canada a French speaking country and won't give you a visa to teach French if you're Canadian. Oddly though, they would happily give a French Canadian an E2 visa to teach English (and I've met a few who WERE teaching English). So the big question is... where are you from and where did you do university?

If you want to work in other fields, there are other types of visas. What kind of work did you have in mind? Skilled labor? Manual labor? Entertainment? "Entertainment"?