Korean Job Discussion Forums

[jimb0]

hello and hope your're doing fine.
maybe you can give me some advise, My girlfriend and I are looking for teaching job in korea. Any help/info will be appreciated. thanks!

[teachingld2004]

Sorry, you and your girl friend can not teach here because you can not get teaching visas. Yet many people do teach without them....

[bossaco]

i used to work with a filipino in a small academy in bundang before... he was born in the philippines but grew up in the US... he's got an american citizenship and a diploma from one of the universities in california as well...

aside from him, there were other two ex-filipinos (now koreans) working part-time in that school...

but from what i know, their salary was quite low... about 1.2 million won a month...

if you're a filipino citizen, you're not allowed to teach in korea... since the philippines is not recognized by the government as a native english speaking country

[teachingld2004]

I don't think that was low for teaching part time.

[bossaco]

^^ it wasn't part-time... they worked 12 hours...

[Pangit]

As bossaco said, the Korean government doesn't recognize the Philippines as a native English speaking country, which is ass because I grew up speaking English as a first language in the Philippines. I was also schooled in English. I'd even go so far as to say that I got better education in the English language as an elementary school student compared to the schooling I got while I was in Canada, but that wouldn't be entirely accurate of all Filipino schools because I had a Montessori education.

But why bother with Korea? If you have sufficient education (Master's or higher), there are better opportunities elsewhere. I don't know what your qualifications are, however, so I can't rightly say what would be best for you.

[jimb0]

thanks for the input, Im looking for an sponsor who can sponsor us and get a student visa and enroll in a school, and at the same time teach english in other school. I think it is possible, coz one of my friend here got a student visa and fly to korea. Enrolled in a school and she teach english in other school.

[TECO]

Jimbo,

I'm not sure of the laws either...

I'm in Taiwan at the moment and I know that Philippinos are here teaching but I'm not sure what their visa status is.

I do know that there are Philippinos teaching in some of the universities here in Taipei as faculty members but I bellieve they did their M.A. or Ph.D in America.

If you're interested in coming to Taipei you might want to send scott sommers an e-mail. He has a blog and I believe that he mentioned having a few Philippino teachers at the university he works at.

Good luck.

[Pangit]

[TECO]

Doesn't sound legal to me either.
Whether it's possible in Korea - I don't know.

Like I said, there are people doing this in Taiwan where I think it is more likely to do this without getting hasseled by police.

[kalbi]

I believe that people on student visas here are allowed to work up to 20 hours a week legally. You may want to confirm that,, but I believe that's correct.

Maybe that may be a way to do it..... '

Best of luck..

[Tiger Beer]

where do filipinos hangout in Seoul?

[komtengi]

there was about half a dozen of them in Ssen bar in haebangchon last night

[Tiger Beer]

[guangho]

Where do they hang out? Thanks TB, I need this vital info as well.