Korean Job Discussion Forums

ubum · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Location: Gwangju

I know that teaching privates are illegal in Korea, but are they legal in Taiwan or Japan?

deessell · Joined: 08 Jun 2005

I would guess that earning money and not paying tax on it, is illegal in every country.

dulouz · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus

Privates are much easier in the other places. Taiwan certainly but I'm less surwe about Japan. No one is complaining there about the private situation.

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

from what i've heard, privates are legal in japan.. extra incentive to teach there..

never taught there.. don't know 100%, but... i have heard it several times

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

ubum · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Location: Gwangju

Thanks, I was just curious.

peppermint · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

in japan you get one teaching visa,, with that visa you are free to change jobs as many times as you want, do what ever teaching jobs you want!

so in theory they make it much easier to teach privately.. but actually doing privates in a house and not paying tax well that could be a problem.
but if you have a visa you might not be kicked out like here..

but teaching privately like lets say business classes, or other schools, part time away from your full time job would be ok I guess. as long as you declared tax.. I mean I think any country in the world in illegal to get paid not paying tax.. but how much penalty one is to recieve is a different story.. IM sure we have all cut the neighbours lawn, or babysat the neighbours kid or of such before.. and got paid!! was that illegal???
YEP! so we started early as kids learning to work illegally and not pay the government their fare share! hahhahaha

mithridates · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:56 pm Post subject:

I could hardly believe it when I was looking into coming to Korea for the second time after spending the first one just studying and seeing thi asinine debate here on whether privates are bad or not. In Japan you can get privates by going to the international centre and putting up an ad. Then you do the lesson and make money. In Japan they have this crazy idea that you should be able to make money teaching what you know in your spare time if you are already a working member of the society. I don't know what they'll come up with next.

Ekuboko · Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Location: ex-Gyeonggi

In Japan my contract had a 'no extra work unless approved by the boss' clause, but it's so much easier and no biggie to take on privates.

In some ways I'm kind of glad that I can't take on privates so easily in Korea, cos then it makes it easier to get everyone who bugs me 'do I know anyone who can tutor their kids' (read: ME) to lay off when I tell them that it is illegal and I would get kicked out if caught doing so.

whatthefunk · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Dont have a clue

in japan, privates are no problem. god, in korea it took me ages to get into a girls pants. six dates, meet all the friends, kiss like 4000000 times before. but in japan, privates are no problem.