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Mikejelai
Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:19 am Post subject: teaching at Hongik? |
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| Anybody got the skinny? Salary ranges and criteria? Housing? Office hours? Support helpfulness? Turnover rate? General working conditions? etc..... |
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Jimskins
Joined: 07 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:05 am Post subject: |
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I just got offered my first ever uni job at Hongik. I have 2 years experience teaching at high school and they've offered 3.35 for 12 teaching hours a week. No housing and no housing allowance is provided.
Thats all I know for now. |
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TexasChicken
Joined: 05 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject: Applied and Denied. |
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| I applied for the Hongik Job for September, but I didnt get it. The Chairman/Owner guy told me I was too young. He said I would be the same age as the students. Despite having Masters, and 3 years experience. Sigh. He also said my marital status was another reason. Oh well I'm currently at a Private HS that has similar pay if you include housing. Best of luck at Hongik. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Jimskins wrote: |
I just got offered my first ever uni job at Hongik. I have 2 years experience teaching at high school and they've offered 3.35 for 12 teaching hours a week. No housing and no housing allowance is provided.
Thats all I know for now. |
Just curious. What qualifications do you have? No need for specifics, but if all it takes is 2 years at a high school (was this in Korea?) then I like my chances. |
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Jimskins
Joined: 07 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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I was amazed I got it too. I'm 29, two years at a girl's high school in Daegu, MA TEFL. The (unexpected) ace in my pack was that I'm a qualified lawyer and they're going to create a brand new "legal english" course for me to teach.
I did prepare thoroughly for the interviews but I still think I got lucky. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:38 am Post subject: |
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| Jimskins wrote: |
I was amazed I got it too. I'm 29, two years at a girl's high school in Daegu, MA TEFL. The (unexpected) ace in my pack was that I'm a qualified lawyer and they're going to create a brand new "legal english" course for me to teach.
I did prepare thoroughly for the interviews but I still think I got lucky. |
Thanks for the response and congrats on the job! Looks like I still have a long way to go before making it to the big leagues  |
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Mikejelai
Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:56 am Post subject: |
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Jimskins,
Is that at the Seoul campus or the Jochiwon campus? |
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Jimskins
Joined: 07 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:55 am Post subject: |
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| I'm at Seoul. |
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KoreanAmbition
Joined: 03 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:48 am Post subject: Re: teaching at Hongik? |
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| Mikejelai wrote: |
| Anybody got the skinny? Salary ranges and criteria? Housing? Office hours? Support helpfulness? Turnover rate? General working conditions? etc..... |
From everything I've heard, it's a really good job. Also, you hardly hear people on this board talking negatively about it.
Location: 2 campuses... Seoul and Jochiwon.
For Seoul:
Seoul campus has about 80 or 100 teachers to my knowledge, so there's turnover every semester.
Working conditions seem to be really good, because you almost never hear bad things about the job. To my knowledge, there's "generally" a 4 year max limit, but that can be extended in some cases.
Full vacation, like 20 weeks. 12 hours teaching per week.... normally 4-hour block-shifts, 3 days a week. Times are usually 9-1pm or 1-5pm. From what I hear most teachers get the schedule they prefer.
You need a Master degree for sure, although a few sneak through without.
3.2 or 3.3 is the starting salary. As for housing, I think you can pay 400,000 won to live on campus... but I've heard the housing isn't really that great. However, it's cheap and close.
For Jochiwon:
Higher salary, probably significantly fewer teachers, but I don't know how many...same vacation... housing is probably a lot nicer, and if not, it's certainly going to be bigger. I think it also might be a tad bit cheaper.
Last edited by KoreanAmbition on Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:50 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dannyboy
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:44 am Post subject: |
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The Hongdae job post was on this website's job ads. The deadline ended last month, look it up.
The Korean admin overseeing the foreign teachers has a bad rep and current teachers say he's racist. Don't let the job perks overshadow your daily happiness. Talk to people already there before you apply. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:42 pm Post subject: Re: Applied and Denied. |
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| TexasChicken wrote: |
| I applied for the Hongik Job for September, but I didnt get it. The Chairman/Owner guy told me I was too young. He said I would be the same age as the students. Despite having Masters, and 3 years experience. Sigh. He also said my marital status was another reason. |
I'm curious about what your marital status has to do with it. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Universities like to employ married guys to cut down on the chances of them hitting on the students |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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No housing? Live on campus? Booooooooooo
Stop trying to justify this travesty and help discourage these types of changes |
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Caffeinated
Joined: 11 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Dannyboy wrote: |
| The Korean admin overseeing the foreign teachers has a bad rep and current teachers say he's racist. |
Details please. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
No housing? Live on campus? Booooooooooo
Stop trying to justify this travesty and help discourage these types of changes |
Changes?
No change there..
I bet if you had a Phd and they headhunted you they'd give you a house; that's what my uni does. Regular folk like me have to find our own lodgings.
Countryside unis usually offer a dorm room or 'guest room', but they're usually tiny. People working at unis usually have a few years under their belt anyway and have their own housing or are capable of finding it. |
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