Korean Job Discussion Forums

[vonnegutjr]

Anyone know what their contract is like? I was wondering about vacation and duties. The Korean teacher who should teach English conversation at my school just teaches regular classes and always leaves early. Just curious...

[tanklor1]

Not sure. But I've learned from experience that it's best not to poke around in other people's business. Wouldn't make a big deal out of it.

[lowpo]

[lowpo]

[lifeinkorea]

lowpo, you know, you can just update your posts. You don't have to make a new reply.

vonnegutjr, it's none of your business. For all you know, this Korean teacher is working part-time. It wouldn't matter if it was full-time, Korean teachers have very different arrangements and responsibilities than native English speakers.

[Milwaukiedave]

Unless the Korean teacher is a regular employee, the truth is she or he is probably getting paid crap regardless of whether they are full or par-time. My wife teaches English in a public school and is required to stay at school from 8:40-4:40 everyday and gets two weeks of vacation a year. The schools are hiring more temp Korean teachers (on a year to year contract like native speakers) these days.

[Jimskins]

My wife is one of these English Conversation teachers at a middle school in Seoul. She basically is treated as a regular teacher in that she can go home when they go home (i.e. when the Vice-Prinicipal goes home). The pay is roughly the same as a native teacher, after tax not much more than 2 million a month, so the Education office encourages them to teach after-school classes as well. My wife teaches two of these each day and it bumps up her salary to just over 3 million a month.

However the word from the Education Office is that they are not going to hire many more of these teachers, and from next year only for Elementary schools. My wife says the word on the street is that the Education Office is finally giving up on the idea that the after-school programmes and English conversation classes will ever be able to replace, let alone compete with, the Hogwans.

[lifeinkorea]