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ulsanchris
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| Koreankiwi can you please post a link to the web page? |
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kiwikorean
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Im sorry, my wife was in a car accident. Umm yeah. Sorry |
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dutchman
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| kiwikorean wrote: |
| Im sorry, my wife was in a car accident. Umm yeah. Sorry |
Sorry to hear that Kiwikorean. Is she okay? |
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kiwikorean
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| Um she's doing fine. Still in hospital, I don't know what to say. Sorry I haven't been much help, yeah. |
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PatrickSiheung
Joined: 21 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| Take care big guy. We're praying for ya. |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:18 am Post subject: |
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I've been reading through this, and I think the business approach is a huge and expensive risk.
Doing the one on one from home sounds the best if you can get the tutoring licence. Nine kids each at twice a week for an hour at 50,000 adds up to about 900,000 per week, or 3,600,000 per month. Not bad for something that can be done in a spare room office in your apartment.
The risks aren't there, just some paperwork.
Who has the tutoring permit? |
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dutchman
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:33 am Post subject: |
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Who has the tutoring permit? |
My wife. And she has no student limitations. Oh yeah... I help her out at work occasionally.  |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| My wife's English is not good enough to offer tutoring as a front to my real English lessons. |
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dutchman
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| My wife's English is not good enough to offer tutoring as a front to my real English lessons. |
I didnt mean to imply that she is a front for me. It's a full-time job for her and she is great at it, a far better teacher than I am. I only help out a couple of days a week. |
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ratslash
Joined: 08 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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hey, hope this reply is not too late.
i presume, by what you said, your girlfriend is fully korean, not just ethnically korean? i mean, does she have a korean passport?
if so, i know a canadian guy, who is ethinically korean, but classes himself as canadian and has a canadian passort, who married a 'full' korean lady. he successfully opened a hagwon, and got round the investment problem by putting it all in her name. i appreciate at the moment that she is only your girlfriend but it may be something to consider in the future.
i also heard quoted before that is a foreigner wants to open a business in korea he/she has to invest the equivalent of 250,000usd.
to open a hagwon, it is definitely 50 pyeong, i believe, if you wish it to be a purely english hagwon with foreign teachers. i believe the size of the institute has to do with what you teach there.
sorry if this has been covered before but i am not going to trawl through five pages to find out whether it has. |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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Investing sounds like a headache. I want a way to do private type lessons legally.
What are the employment limitations on teachers? How about lining up numerous part time jobs doing in office private business teaching, or offering private English lessons in Taekwondo or Kumdo academies?
It seems there is a big market for one on one, and hagwons don't often cater to this, nor do they give the teacher a fair profit share. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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how do you go about getting a toutoring permit?
Is it limited to Koreans or can foreigners get one too?
Where can I get some info on it. |
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ratslash
Joined: 08 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| phaedrus wrote: |
Investing sounds like a headache. I want a way to do private type lessons legally.
What are the employment limitations on teachers? How about lining up numerous part time jobs doing in office private business teaching, or offering private English lessons in Taekwondo or Kumdo academies?
It seems there is a big market for one on one, and hagwons don't often cater to this, nor do they give the teacher a fair profit share. |
if you want do any of the above you will have to do it illegally. i suggest you do some searching on this stuff, maybe in FAQ pages coz this has been covered lots of times.
privates are illegal for foreigners to do. simple as. no loop holes, nothing. you can open a business that specialises in private lessons, but again, you come back to the investment issue. don't know if this is any different if you are married and hold a different visa, but if you just come here as a 'normal' foreigner then you can't.
there is a big market out there for this kind of tutoring, but it is illegal for foreigners to do it. i myself, did private business lessons myself to boost my income. illegal, but you will find most (most? dunno if most, but you know what i mean) teach private lessons to boost their funds a little bit.
look at faq's for visa questions. |
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Mankind
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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i also heard quoted before that is a foreigner wants to open a business in korea he/she has to invest the equivalent of 250,000usd.
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It's 50,000,000 but that won't buy you much.
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Sucker
Joined: 11 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:05 am Post subject: |
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[/quote]privates are illegal for foreigners to do. simple as. no loop holes, nothing. you can open a business that specialises in private lessons, but again, you come back to the investment issue.
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I am sure that thi sis right. However, the place that I worked last year (owned by an American) hired about 5-6 westerners who worked in the office during the day, textbooks, press releases, annual reports, etc.
In the early morning (7:30am) and later afternoon (6pm), however, most of these western office workers would go off to various offices around the business district (LG, Nike, Hennessy, etc) and teach English to groups of office workers in their own offices.
My boss was forever trying to sell his product (i.e. us), because there was such a high turnover rate in classes. We would get a new contract with some company, teach there twice a week for a few months and then invariably loose the contract. Seemed to be a never ending cycle.
I am sure that what we were doing was not entirely above board, but it was going on in the middle of Samsung-dong. As far as I know, they are still doing business in the same way. |
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