Korean Job Discussion Forums

yakey · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Korea

So somebody just recently gets U.S. or Canadian citizenship, for example, speaks Native Spanish and broken English, and parlays that into a job in Korea - Teaching English.

It's happening. I've worked with a guy like that.

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

This isn't exactly new. If they have a passport from one of the accepted nations and the education was in an English-speaking environment from (I believe) middle school, they can get the E-2. that's how it's been as long as I've been here.

poeticjustice · Joined: 28 Feb 2009

I met a South African public school teacher at the GEPIK conference about a year ago who didn't speak a word of English. She just mumbled stuff and started sentences with "I..." and trailed off into Afrikaans.

I have no idea how she didn't get fired. Maybe she did, who knows.

Murakano · Joined: 10 Sep 2009

classydame · Joined: 03 Aug 2009 Location: Korea

Don't most schools conduct phone interviews before hiring a person to determine what their English is like?

shostahoosier · Joined: 14 Apr 2009

Big Mac · Joined: 17 Sep 2005

There are quite a few public school teachers in my city who obviously do not speak English as their native language. I don't think the recruiters care and out here there is rarely anyone who works at one of these schools who would know the difference. Only people like me can tell.