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Died By Bear · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:30 am Post subject:

IF you're a great teacher, word gets around. People come to you.

It starts w/parents. Educated parents. Or in the company sector.

I taught in a hospital. 13 hours straight on MWF and extra classes for kids on weekends. It was very profitable.

If you really want to make money, you have to set it up so they come to you. Don't travel around the city losing time. Time is a commodity. It's precious. There are so many teaching hours in a day. Don't wast your precious time in Korea on a subway or a bus traveling to teach somewhere. That is the fastest way to burn out in Korea, and it exposes you to a host of other problems like random Koreans making a good day bad.

A hospital is the last place immigration will go check for English teachers. They always have a conf room or an office you can do your lessons.

Never teach more than two people at a time, always make them pay one month in advance so they can't cancel on you and not pay.

It works.

BroodingSea · Joined: 21 Oct 2008 Location: North Shields

Chaps - thanks for your positive responses on this. I think that my best course of action is to compile a list of Korean institutions that have research relevant to my interests and try and approach them speculatively and indeed, via openings where identified. To this end, does anyone have at hand a list of universities to initially point me on my way, no biggy if not, Google is my friend. I think that I'll keep the EFL option open (at uni level) and approach these as well.