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Trevor · Joined: 16 Nov 2005

My best advice is to get a list of Korean universities that have departments in which your area of expertise would be of value. Contact each department separately. Try to customize each letter. (Like everybody else in the world, Korean academics like to feel as if you are contacting them specifically). Follow up with a phone call to the one's you are particularly interested in. You will most likely get a surprising number of responses if you approach them professionally.

You can also try to use email to network with Korean academics in your field and ask them where to apply. (Like everyone else, they like it when people ask them their advice).

Your biggest obstacle using the above strategies will be that university EnvSci departments will not always have a webpage in English.

No_hite_pls · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:50 pm Post subject:

Malislamusrex · Joined: 01 Feb 2010

They do. But they may or may not hire. The problem in Korea is that you have to be lucky to get in (right place right time). Once you are teaching in a science department and you are doing a good job every professor in that city will know who you are. If you get friendly with the right academics everyone in the country will know who you are. Then the jobs come easy.

But it's that initial luck that you'll need. Having a PhD and TESOL expedience is what most professors want because they want to publish in major English speaking journals..

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

Might be comparing apples to oranges. Yes, IF you want to work in TESOL, then, sure, that Ph.D. in a related dicipline (e.g. applied linguistics or second language eduction) with TESOL experience helps. Others on this board are more concerned with teaching content (in English) at K universities.

Totally different ballgame. In that case, the only experience that counts is your experience gained post terminal degree, in this case the doctorate. Sometimes they will count experience gained lecturing over the course of your studies at your degree granting institution, but post-doc experience trumps. These jobs tend to pay nearly double university ESL teaching jobs, and generally have a 2/2 or 2/3 schedule. Research, then comes into play, as does professional service.