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[Darkray16]

I tried googling, but only thing that came up was advertisements for jobs. Could someone give me a source that states that being paid on an hourly wage is illegal for an E2 if this is true?

[TheUrbanMyth]

[koreatimes]

I think you are skipping ideas here. It isn't if it is illegal I think you are looking for, it's whether the school can enforce hourly rates to non-overtime work.

This would depend on the contract, which mostly likely refers to monthly salaries, not hourly wages.

If they ask you how much you have worked, write "1 month's work". Never agree you did less than your weekly assigned hours. If you have to put down a number before getting paid, then put the same number down as the contract says.

Don't make it a practice to use hourly rates outside of overtime. At one hagwon, I simply wrote "received" on the sheet and left it blank.

[ontheway]

Why would it be illegal? Many jobs, maybe most jobs pay hourly. Many salaried positions have hourly overtime.

There are hogwans that pay hourly. Some people are part time workers which usually means hourly rates, others prefer hourly positions.

Of course, if you're hourly, you'll make less when there are fewer classes available. But, if you're on salary, you could end up working extra time for free in many professional jobs (depends on your contract).

Many schools like to have some hourly teachers to fill in the gaps when there aren't enough classes for a full time salaried teacher.

I wouldn't want to be an hourly worker, especially as a teacher in Korea. But, if you're on an F visa working as an independent contractor at multiple locations, hourly arrangements can be quite lucrative.