Korean Job Discussion Forums

[nahanni]

Anyone know if the Korean government requires a hagwon to offer a foreigner a minimum number of paid vacation days every year?

Thanksss

[Robot_Teacher]

Sundays are your holidays, but you typically get 10 paid work days off. 5 days in the Summer and 5 days in the Winter. I read labor law stipulates you get 10 work days a year off. To much busy work and too few days off is one major reason I passed up the hagwon offers.

[cruisemonkey]

[kiknkorea]

Right, it's usually 10 days PLUS Korean holidays (which can vary depending on the calendar.)
Sundays are your holidays? I wouldn't want a job where I only had 1 day per week off. Hagwons are known to be light on holidays, but I don't know of any that are this bad.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Yes. Saturdays are working days. Check your calendar and you'll see that Sundays are red days and Saturdays are not. In your first year, you get one holiday per week. By law. That day can be Saturday.

You only get 15 days in your second year of employment if you have an 80% attendance record in your first year. That's the only way it can work. There's no way for anyone to tell if your attendance record for the year before you start.