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zappadelta
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| tek75 wrote: |
I've been hired by a language institute at a university in the Seoul area. I guess technically it's a unigwon, but I'll be teaching credit conversation courses to the university's students. I used to work for the SMOE, and this will be my first time teaching at the university level, and I'm both nervous and excited.
As for the conditions, I'll be teaching 16 hours/week with 3 additional office hours, and that will all be over 4 days a week (yes!). The pay will be 2.4 million with an additional .5 housing allowance for a total of 2.9 million a month. And vacation will be 12 weeks a year. In addition, the staff members I've talked to seem quite nice (knock on wood).
Overall, I'm more than satisfied, especially considering my lack of university-level experience. I was pretty sure I'd have to take a job outside of Seoul, so I'm glad that didn't turn out to be the case. Best of luck to all those applying right now! |
Conditions look pretty good for unigwon, congrats. |
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liveinkorea316
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Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah congrats that seems like a sweet job. |
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earthquakez
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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A not so sweet job's been advertised for a university in Jeju. Far away from everything, not a great place despite all the nonsense re the 'Hawaii' of Korea - not. 
Payment 2 million won per month. Before tax of course. Housing is supplied but because the ad on the cafe has some strange figures on it, you can't see if you pay for the housing. You pay for the utilities. No airfare. No pension, no medical.
The hours look okay but they then mention there are things in the contract that they haven't put in the ad. 
And the same ol, same ol - MA, TESOL. Personally I think this is a bit of an insult. People should just not apply and they then might have to hike up the pay. |
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Raisin
Joined: 03 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Got an e-mail today from Soongsil Universiy. They're interviewing this Friday. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| Raisin wrote: |
| Got an e-mail today from Soongsil Universiy. They're interviewing this Friday. |
well there goes another one off my list
those of you who are getting ints, what kind of qualifications do you have? |
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Shapur
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| earthquakez wrote: |
A not so sweet job's been advertised for a university in Jeju. Far away from everything, not a great place despite all the nonsense re the 'Hawaii' of Korea - not.
Payment 2 million won per month. Before tax of course. Housing is supplied but because the ad on the cafe has some strange figures on it, you can't see if you pay for the housing. You pay for the utilities. No airfare. No pension, no medical.
The hours look okay but they then mention there are things in the contract that they haven't put in the ad.
And the same ol, same ol - MA, TESOL. Personally I think this is a bit of an insult. People should just not apply and they then might have to hike up the pay. |
PMed you man. Check your inbox. |
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swashbuckler
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Shapur wrote: |
| earthquakez wrote: |
A not so sweet job's been advertised for a university in Jeju. Far away from everything, not a great place despite all the nonsense re the 'Hawaii' of Korea - not.
Payment 2 million won per month. Before tax of course. Housing is supplied but because the ad on the cafe has some strange figures on it, you can't see if you pay for the housing. You pay for the utilities. No airfare. No pension, no medical.
The hours look okay but they then mention there are things in the contract that they haven't put in the ad.
And the same ol, same ol - MA, TESOL. Personally I think this is a bit of an insult. People should just not apply and they then might have to hike up the pay. |
PMed you man. Check your inbox. |
If it's about the job, can you PM me whatever you wrote him? I'm also applying. |
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tuckerg76
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject: Univeristies around Daejeon? |
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| I just found this thread. I've been working in Korea for four years now. Two hagwon and two EPIK. I'd like to make the jump to Uni. Does anyone have info about Universities in the Daejeon area? |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:59 pm Post subject: Re: Univeristies around Daejeon? |
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| tuckerg76 wrote: |
| I just found this thread. I've been working in Korea for four years now. Two hagwon and two EPIK. I'd like to make the jump to Uni. Does anyone have info about Universities in the Daejeon area? |
hiring season is getting close to being finished, you should have checked woo song's ad, its a good place to get your feet wet since you have experience. check university websites just do a google search of universities in daejeon
i have a MEd (not in TESOL) 13 years univ teaching experience here and got exactly 2 interviews so be aware its very tough.
btw hongik has sent out their interview list, kookmin are on final interviews, kwangwoon and made their offers thurs |
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swashbuckler
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:28 pm Post subject: Re: Univeristies around Daejeon? |
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| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| i have a MEd (not in TESOL) 13 years univ teaching experience here and got exactly 2 interviews so be aware its very tough. |
Why do you think you got rejected from so many jobs with 13 years of experience and a masters degree? Do you think age plays that big of a role in hiring? |
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Slowmotion
Joined: 15 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Tamada wrote: |
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| another univ had no interview but you had to submit a 10 minute video under 30mb in size answering their questions. |
You mean Kyungwon uni?
Check this out...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKI9KedZrp8 |
lol @ 3 people putting 'dislike'
Ironically he says he likes to be organized, but all his ummms makes him seem like he didn't know what he was going to talk about and look at his shirt, he didn't even iron it lol.
Anyway this thread was a good read, thanks to everyone. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:34 am Post subject: Re: Univeristies around Daejeon? |
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| swashbuckler wrote: |
| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| i have a MEd (not in TESOL) 13 years univ teaching experience here and got exactly 2 interviews so be aware its very tough. |
Why do you think you got rejected from so many jobs with 13 years of experience and a masters degree? Do you think age plays that big of a role in hiring? |
couple of reasons: yeah age is an issue as is a lack of ma/tesol but the biggie for me is that after 2 years at one of the "name" institutions, i decided to go to a small 2 year college since my wife was working at it, i knew many of the staff in fact i taught a summer program there, etc and thought it would be a nice change to be in a smaller environment. well most koreans think thats an incredible f up. thats according to the feedback i've gotten throws up a major flag |
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languistic
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:55 am Post subject: Re: Univeristies around Daejeon? |
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Tamada
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:01 am Post subject: Re: Univeristies around Daejeon? |
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| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| but the biggie for me is that after 2 years at one of the "name" institutions, i decided to go to a small 2 year college since my wife was working at it, i knew many of the staff in fact i taught a summer program there, etc and thought it would be a nice change to be in a smaller environment. well most koreans think thats an incredible f up. thats according to the feedback i've gotten throws up a major flag |
So, just omit it from your resume. |
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languistic
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:40 pm Post subject: Re: Univeristies around Daejeon? |
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