Korean Job Discussion Forums

[fidel]

What an insult to foreign English language teachers! The conditions are terrible considering the level you are expected to teach and the amount of preparation that must be involved in order to do your job as a teacher effectively. The problem is that there are some 'teachers' out there that will think this is a good deal and jump at the chance to work at a 'university'. Oh the prestige! "I work at a uni, nah nah nah na na"!

[Ilsanman]

It might be worth buckling down for 9 months, and then springboard onto a different University with that experience.

Not that I am pursuing the position, but it's a valid point. You have to eat shit before you can eat caviar.

[Real Reality]

Ilsanman,
Caviar? In Korea? For foreigners?

[Zyzyfer]

It could be a worthwhile investment. Certain student types and subjects listed are great for future endeavors.

[Gord]

If I was looking for work and didn't have any other cool offers, I'd sign up for it. Easier to prepare and teach adults than children, the time goes by faster, and it pays pretty damn well despite the extra work. Then overdose on the holidays doing other work for huge cash.

[weatherman]

Man, a lot of you out there are golden boys or something.

[J.B. Clamence]

[John Henry]

Oh no... You actually have to put in an EIGHT HOUR DAY!!! How barbaric.

And what's that? Your THREE MONTH VACATION isn't paid?

Yeah, I'd definately be insulted if someone told me I had to put in 40 hrs a week, and take off for three months out of the year.

[fidel]

Okay John Henry you smartass, it's a potential eight hours of teaching, not sitting around on your fat butt picking your nose and surfing porn on the net.

If you were a teacher, and by your own admission your not, you would realize that taking 8 hours of classes for adults in a variety of subjects is not a walk in the park, and involves a substantial amount of prep time. So, and let me spell it out for you plain and simple. You are teaching for 8 hours and preparing for X amount of hours. Which if you use your accounting skills = more than 8 hours per day. Just what Korea needs is another *beep* coming over here, to trumpet his intellectual prowess right back at ya!


Okay I agree with some of the posters that if your stuck in the hogwan rot it could be a job to get that much needed experience to move into the university market. However that wasn't the point of my post. The conditions in my mind are substandard and possibly reflective of the market in korea, with foreign workers willing to settle for less.

Gord wrote

[CanadaCommando]

[TECO]

Firstly, teaching 40 hours a week will result in mental health problems and probably physical problems, as well.

Not a good idea.

20 - 25 hours a week, contact hours, with some prep are reasonable. Any more than that and you should be looking for somewher else to teach.

Secondly, I think this is an extremely uncompetitive university teaching position. Even if one did accept this job, I would be concerned about all of the other 'hidden' rules and regulations or hang-ups involved with the job.

Unpaid leave at a university?

Experienced, qualified teachers would avoid a job like this.

However, after having read the above posts, it also depends where you are coming from.

This job could also be perceived by some to be a 'step up' in the TEFL'ing world.

Is this the direction Korean universities are going in hiring foreign language teachers, whether they are Russian, Japanese or English instructors?

[angelgirl]

This ad is for the language centre, not the university. So it is a hogwan type contract.

They have a different version fo horror for the university proper. really the wrong word!!

[xCustomx]

[pest2]

The worst thing about it is the name.

[jinju]