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Hi Everyone..

I was looking into getting a job at a particular hagwon- they're pretty reputable as far as I know, so I'm not worried about them paying me (which they're not offering a lot..), but I'm very worried about the hours.
As far as I can tell they have a typical afternoon to evening shift that's about 8 hours, but I was surprised to hear that they don't offer a break for dinner. In fact, they expect you to just eat snacks in the few minutes between back to back classes. They also expect you to do some grading/ prep work, and do monthly write ups that they project to take more than a couple hours outside of work. Is this typical of a hagwon? With only 10 days a year for a vacation, I'm wondering if it's manageable to do all this and still get to explore/have fun in Korea.

Has anyone had experience like this where they had to work back to back hours that they can tell me about?

I was also hoping someone can tell me about working afternoon-evening hours and whether it's possible to maintain some kind of a social life with this kind of a schedule.

Thanks a lot~

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I have had the experience. There is nothing wrong with eating a late dinner besides you could eat a late lunch so you do not have to have a break during class time. I did 6 hour blocks with snacks and it didn't negatively affect me in any way.

As for a social life, you schedule it in to avoid conflict with your duties.

You can explore Korea on the weekends where it will not interfere with your duties. Good luck on getting those vacation days. Some hagwons shut down twice a year and that is when you take them, others don't and it can be a hassle to use them.

Since hagwons are different than public schools vacations and other breaks are hard to schedule. One of my old ones used to pay us for not taking any but then they were not normal hagwon owners but very generous people.

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