Korean Job Discussion Forums

[cubanlord]

Right now, our (my wife's and mine) contract are 26-40 min. classes (1040 minutes per week). Anything over 1,040 minutes per week is paid 20,000WON overtime. Do most of you teach 26-50minute classes or 26-40minute classes?

Our administrator is a shady, piece of crap person with the IQ of about 60 (thinks he can be sly and pass crap over on us foreigners). Funny though, besides him, everyone else is great. Hey tried to be "sly" and change our new contracts to 26-50min. classes WITHOUT an increase in salary. We told him, "more minutes = more money". So he left us alone.

What do you guys teach? Thankfully, I was allowed to make my own contract. I love it.

[marlow]

An extra 260 minutes per week should come out to about 400,000 to 500,000 extra won per month. That's what I would expect. I guess it depends on the details in your contract.

[bellum99]

Actually , you were lucky. Usually if they want to screw you over they count hours worked. 40 minutes or 50 minutes are not hours. This way they deduct the breaks between classes and give you more classes. It's good you could make your own contract.

[cubanlord]

yeah.....I am glad I made my own contract because 1 hour is defined as 40 minutes. I just wanted to know if this was standard, or if 50 minutes being defined as a one hour class was.

[jacl]

Is this a hagwon?

Looks pretty good to me. 26 50-minute classes would be good too. Usually it's 30 hours a week where an hour should be defined as no more than 50 minutes.

What's the pay?

[J.B. Clamence]

50 minutes is usually considered a standard academic hour. This goes for many countries, not just Korea. Some schools like to get cute and count an hour as 60 minutes, so you have to work 6 50-minute classes to get paid for five hours (and are usually not up-front about it). I taught at a place like that long ago. Never again. Schools that do that sort of thing are usually on the lookout for ways to squeeze everything they can out of you.

Yeah, I think you are lucky to have 40 minutes count as an hour. That's not the standard anywhere that I know of.

[cubanlord]

No, it's an elem. school (private). 2.1 w/20,000 won overtime (per each additional 40min.)

thanks for the replies.

[marlow]

I work at a public elementary school. I teach twenty classes per week, and each class is forty minutes. Forty minutes is standard for elementary school.

[cubanlord]

that's good feedback. thanks!