Korean Job Discussion Forums

[KoreanAmbition]

This isn't a pissing contest.... rather just a poll to give people an idea of the situations that are out there.

Also, this topic is NOT concerned with voluntary overtime. I'm just curious about the number of hours that you teachers are contracted (forced) to work at your university/unigwon job.

If you answered the poll for your "minimum" hours, but your school requests you to work more (and you are obliged to do so), then maybe you can just clarify that with a post.


If there are any other interesting details worth noting, please feel free to share.

Cheers,

[asams]

Shouldn't it be called a 'uniwon' since the 'g' sound belongs to 'hag.' Sorry, I don't have a Korean keyboard and can't be bothered to do the whole Google think at 5:30 AM.

[Draz]

[PRagic]

I was teaching 12 hours a week at my last university ESL job. Nice, though, I had no meetings, no mandatory fun trips, I didn't have to publish, there was very little prep, and the class sizes were small. Full vacations and good friends in the department. Sometimes I miss that job, but it all went to shiite in the end.

[KoreanAmbition]

It's too bad that this poll option doesn't give me the chance to ask layered questions.

It would be interesting to hear the type of schedule that people get. For example:


-are your shifts blocked, or spread out through the day?

-do you work always in mornings, or always afternoons, or a combination?

-how many days per week do you teach?

-how often do you have to be at school when you're not teaching that day?


Anyone want to share?

[PRagic]

Again, I'll base this off of my last ESL teaching job:

Shifts were blocked and usually spread over a 3-day schedule; sometimes I did a 4-day schedule.

We chose our hours. I'm a morning person, so I did a couple early classes, had lunch, did a couple more classes, then went home.

We didn't have to be at school if we didn't have classes. The office, therefore, was usually quite empty!

[Konglishman]

I don't know what my exact teaching schedule will be yet, but I understand that I will be teaching 4 days per week.

[cdninkorea]

I'm not sure if the overtime where I work is forced or not because I always want more. Base teaching hours is 19, but I usually get 22 at 34,000 won per additional hour. Hypothetically I think I could request to only do the bas hours, but again I'm not sure.

[KoreanAmbition]

I'm surprised 9 hours a week is leading this race...

[livinginkorea]

-are your shifts blocked, or spread out through the day?

block

-do you work always in mornings, or always afternoons, or a combination?

mostly mornings

-how many days per week do you teach?

4

-how often do you have to be at school when you're not teaching that day?

0 hours

[makemischief]

-are your shifts blocked, or spread out through the day?
tightly blocked.

-do you work always in mornings, or always afternoons, or a combination?
I always teach afternoons. Other than the very first semester, we are free to choose our blocks (first semester on the job teachers have less choices as they are hired after much of the scheduling is done).

-how many days per week do you teach?
4

-how often do you have to be at school when you're not teaching that day?
never, or maybe once a semester if a rare meeting happens to fall on that day.

[KoreanAmbition]

bump

[bassexpander]

15 base plus anywhere from 2 to 7 hours on top of that.

[Young FRANKenstein]