Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Illysook]

Here's my idea:

Granny's English!
Logo: kindly grey haired woman
She's reading a story to enraptured toddlers!
Grandpa stands nearby ready to change a diaper on a moment's notice!
They are super-nice and they are super-teacher's

It will make so much money that it will turn the Hagwon industry around and schools will be fighting over and writing special advertisements looking for those who want a second career...especially if they are qualified teachers, as credentials and experience will begin to count in the Korean ESL marketplace!

And okay, yeah...it's a fantasy, but what would you do?

[minos]

Actually, it's a pretty good idea. Plenty of destitute older ladies would do it. Gotta earn a living.

However teachers have nice pensions(so I've heard) so I'm not sure if the retired ones would come here.

[plchron]

I had a good idea for an asian car wash. Having white people wash asian's cars. We get a bunch of people with college degrees to come over and give them the same benefits as teachers. But they would wash executive's cars. In the building with the cash register we would have a profile of each car washer. The customer could choose.Do they want an engineering major from Harvard or do they want a political science major from NYU, etc.. I would charge them 100,000 won for the hand wash done by the foriegner. Then I would have a VIP membership plan where hot american girls would wash the car for more money. I think the girls might be to expensive, so I would just truck in some from eastern europe and tell the customers that the girls are not supposed to speak.

[murmanjake]

I think this craigslist poster has a pretty good idea.

http://seoul.craigslist.co.kr/tag/2694362648.html

[Ribena]

You need to get the early retirement crowd who have had enough with the latest government initative and want out of the state school system full of feral kids. They have got rid of their own kids, paid-off their mortage and want a little adventure.

[whiteshoes]

[SeoulNate]

[Illysook]

I keep getting recruited for teaching English lessons through Skype but they don't pay much and it seems kinda sketch, so if that's how people are advertising, I reallllly don't want to.

[meangradin]

it is sort of related to the op, but teaching lessons to retired people has been an expanding business for a few years now. of course, i first read about it in relation to japan, where it has become quite popular. as far as i know, it has not caught on in korea, but as a hagwon owner, i'm thinking of giving it a try.

[FDNY]

A hogwan to teach survival Korean to expats. Teachers would be female, young, pretty and topless. I think the rest would fall nicely into place.

[Ribena]

[Illysook]

Can we stick to ideas that don't involve nudity? Not too many ex-pat women are going to be interested in Topless Survival Korean and this country already has plenty of "barbershops."

[Sinnerman]

If you could somehow create those little teaching pods they had on Vulcan, you would make a mint. When I saw that scene in the last Star Trek, I instantly envisioned this would someday be a part of Korean education .

[Ribena]

[Rutherford]