Korean Job Discussion Forums

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

If so, how much per hour do you pay?

What is your experience like?
Are you really making good progress?

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

I plan to start soon. 30,000 - 40,000 won per hour.

sparkx · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: thekimchipot.com

Is this a legit lesson Kangnamdragon or merely an opportunity for you to snake your way into some young korean girl's parachute panties?

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

Well, I've been discussing the details with a person that I trust and I know is a very good teacher... but she's asking for 50,000 an hour and I just don't know if I can afford to devote 20% of my monthly salary to Korean lessons.

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

I take lessons, free of charge. Of course, I'm also helping her prepare for the TOEFL, so it's more of a language exchange if you like. But then again, she's also my girlfriend, so that probably accounts for something.

KPRROK

ThisCharmingMan · Joined: 11 Jan 2004

ladyandthetramp · Joined: 21 Nov 2003

Well, unless they really have experience teaching Korean, they're probably no better than anyone you could do a language exchange with, just more expensive. There are some people who post ads who are actually looking for legitimate language partners, and not just dates, so check the ads on the various EFL boards here.

Buy a good book to use and have the teacher teach you from that book. For beginners, I thought the "Integrated Korean" series was fairly good (don't know if they sell that in Korea, though...published by the University of Hawaii, I think).

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

I was going to a school. Now, I meet 2 separate language exchange partners (one is my ex-girlfriend), and I go to the Sookmyung Saturday free class.

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject:

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

Yeah, I wasn't really interested in a language exchange because it will never be equal for either person...

The books I'm using are called "Elementary Korean" and "Continuing Korean" by Ross King, Jae-Hoon Yeon, and Insun Lee. I like the layout... every lesson has several conversations, vocabulary, and then alot of grammar. It works for me, it's just really slow to learn from a book without a teacher... and I'm slow at languages anyway.

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

ryleeys,

I suggest a language exchange for you. Don't pay the 30,000 + won per hour. I am in a better position to do that. Only pay the money if you are serious enough to stay here for years and want to commit to it. For now, I suggest you just learn the basics.

the saint · Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Location: not there yet...

I was doing two hours a week at 27,000 an hour. I jacked it in because the teacher was the worst I have ever ever encountered. I asked for private and stressed I wanted someone flexible to adapt to my needs and my way of studying. In return for my money, they gave me a teacher aged somewhere between 50 and 370 who was about as flexible as a steel jockstrap.

It was all I could do to keep going to the end. When I quit, the director and I had a chat. She was very understanding and recommended I try a class with another, younger teacher. The times weren't convenient for me though.

This was at LTRC (Language Teaching Research Centre) in Ganghwamun.

I'm desperate to get going again - I need a schedule....

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

Has anyone used KLA in Kangnam?

igotthisguitar · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:37 am Post subject:

>. If i said it before, i 'll say it again: i can't believe ANYONE would actually pay anything for a Korean lesson ( there's plenty of free ones everywhere ), let alone hand over their cash on a level even remotely comparable to what "Native" English speakers are generally compensated for with their tutoring contributions Shocked