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livinginkorea · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Location: Korea, South of the border

I have heard 1 million, 1.2 million and even 1.5 million but actually how much do korean teachers in hagwons get?

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

livinginkorea · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Location: Korea, South of the border

Would this be true or are they lying so that it looks like they get more then we expect?

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Saxiif · Joined: 15 May 2003 Location: Seongnam

My gf's old job had 1.7, but when a test was coming up she had to work seven days weeks Sad

lush72 · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: I am Penalty Kick!

Dalton · Joined: 26 Mar 2003

Koreans do pay more taxes than foreigners. The income tax rate may be the same but there are many other taxes that Koreans pay that ex-pats are exempt from. For example most ex-pats can apply to get back their pension payments at the end of the year. Koreans cannot do this. So they pay slightly more taxes than we do.

justagirl · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Cheonan/Portland

But they get their pension back when they retire (which is the whole purpose of the pension plan in the first place). You really can't count that as a tax, anyway. It's a deduction/retirement plan.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Dalton · Joined: 26 Mar 2003

manlyboy · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:40 pm Post subject:

Don't know how much they were getting at my last hagwon, but I do know the management eliminated their severance pay/bonus, and replaced it with a "we'll deduct 10% of your pay each month, and return the lump sum after 12 months, and that now will be your bonus" scam! When I asked them what they could/would/should do about it, they all answered along the lines of "it's best to just not say anything".

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Average Annual Salary of Newly Employed University Graduate is 24.72 Million Won
A survey showed that the average annual salary of newly employed university graduates this year is 24.72 million won and that Shinhan Bank provided the highest salaries. Education, apparel and the leather industry provided 22.63 million won, the food and restaurant industries 23.03 million won, and the machine and steel industries 23.94 million won. The Shinhan Bank marked the highest annual pay among individual corporations in all industries with 34 million won. LG Insurance came in second with 33.4 million won, and then Hyundai Card and Pusan Bank with 30 million won.
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=020000&biid=2004022038228

But only 70 percent of the companies said they would give vacation bonuses this year, compared to the 76 percent who gave their workers some spending money last year.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200307/21/200307210127478909900090509051.html

BONUS
Educators said to pay big bribes for appointment to choice jobs
Educators paid off one another with tens of millions of won to get the "good positions" with the office of education here, according to indictments and testimony by former and current officials at South Chungcheong province's office of education.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200307/08/200307080005054309900090409041.html

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

RR what's that actually have to do with the topic at hand? The question was "what do Korean hagwon teachers make?" and you're telling us what people in the Korean leather industry make. Yes I realize that list includes "education" which anyone with half a brain would realize averages in professor salaries and doesn't reflect a fair reflection of what the OP really requested: what do the in the trenches Korean hagwon teachers actually make.

I think we're all aware by now you feel being white and being able to speak english should command a higher wage in Korea. And we all wonder if you feel so underpaid here why you don't go back to your own country and find the higher paying job you believe you deserve.

Hyalucent · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: British North America

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

mindmetoo wrote,
"RR what's that actually have to do with the topic at hand? The question was "what do Korean hagwon teachers make?" and you're telling us what people in the Korean leather industry make. Yes I realize that list includes "education" which anyone with half a brain would realize averages in professor salaries and doesn't reflect a fair reflection of what the OP really requested: what do the in the trenches Korean hagwon teachers actually make."

Post subject: Wages of Korean Teachers

Average Annual Salary of Newly Employed University Graduate is 24.72 Million Won

Since when do Korean university graduates (with four year degrees) become university professors?