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[helpadviceneeded]

Well I've gotten all my documents and I have two job offers! Yay! It's going to be a tough decision since both the schools are very different. I would love some feedback. What do you guys think?


The first one is a well established hagwon. From what I've been told, the job is quite easy. Foreign teachers only have to practice conversation with the kids. There is no grading or quizzes, exams, or homework. The Korean teachers do that. The teacher just plays games with the kids and gets them to practice their English. Foreign teachers can work as little as only 20 hours a week! This job would be cake.

The other job is at an international school. It actually used to be a hagwon but the owner turned it into an international school. I'm pretty sure this is the only school he has. He says he keeps class size small, 2-6 kids. But that seems extremely small. It makes me wonder if he's having a hard time getting kids to enroll. The other teachers say good things about the job, but they say they work a lot of overtime because the school is short on teachers. There would be more lesson prep and grading. On the positive side, I would get to teach subjects other than English - math, social sciences, history, etc. Which would be great experience and probably great for my resume if I want to go into teaching.

The wages are around the name. 2.3 for the hagwonand 2.1 for the international school. But at the international school I would be able to work overtime and make more money if I want. Which is a nice option. The international school also has 22 days of vacation, while at the hagwon you get two one week vacations. They are both outside of the city. The hagwon is at Beomgye Station (line 4) and the international school is at Jeongja (Bundang line). The hagwon would be evening hours and the international school would be during the day.

So, I don't know how to choose. They both have their advantages. I would like an easy job, but also it woud be nice to teach something other than English. I don't want to to be too stressful. It would be nice to have the extra money, but I also want to explore Korea.

What do you think?

I can't decide.


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[ttompatz]

If those 2 choices are "A" & "B" then you should choose "C".

BTW... that international school may be a lot of things, including liars, but they are NOT an "International school".

The real international schools (for foreign kids, Koreans with long term residence abroad or F4 Koreans) are very LARGE (~1000 students each) and very well known.

Anything else is just a hakwon pretending to be something it is not.

[bassexpander]

Please see my post in your other, identical thread.

[jadarite]

The first one sounds like all the others, nothing special. The second one sounds like they are exaggerating things to get people interested (like a recruiter saying I could have a 3.0 million job when in fact it was just 2.1).