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[indiglo123]

Hey all,


I am trying to find as much information about Korea and the number of foreign English teachers currently teaching in Korea. I also want to find out how may Hagwans and public schools are out there that employ foreign English teachers. I figured RealReality might be able to shed some light on where I can find a website to supply me with this information. ^^


Later

[Cymro]

There's a link on this page of the National Statistics Office website to data on foreigner numbers in Korea.

http://www.nso.go.kr/eng/qna/view.html?num=3274

[Real Reality]

Year: 2000
Population
Total .......... Male ......Female
150812 ..... 90401 ..... 60411
Legislators, senior officials and managers
1766 ........ 1520 ........ 246
Professinals
12310 ...... 8725 ........ 3585
Technicians and associate professionals
8385 ........ 6797 ....... 1588
Clerks
4762 3378 1384
Service workers
9812 4843 4969
Sales workers
2530 1676 854
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
2162 1109 1053
Craft and related trades workers
14945 9078 5867
Plant, machine operator and assemblers
8643 6194 2449
Elementary occupations
52376 35658 16718
Not work
33121 11423 21698
Source: Korea National Statistical Office
http://www.nso.go.kr/eng/qna/data/foreigner(00).xls

Many foreigners are teaching English in Korea. Approximately 25,000 teachers are on demand in the field, however 20,000 foreigners are working with legal E-2 visas.
Korjob
http://www.korjob.com/work_en.html

The Korean government says there are about 3,000 English hagwons in South Korea.
http://www2.ald.net/~roden/korea/pages/faq.htm

By 2003, it was estimated that there were nearly 25,000 hagwons in Korea.
http://www.ajarn.com/Contris/kenmaynovember2004.htm

Education services suffer first decline
The private academic sector, or "hagwon" industry, grew 5.7 percent in 2001, 7.3 percent in 2002 and 5.8 percent in 2003. The statistics office said the sluggish hagwon industry has bogged down productivity of the overall education services industry, pushing last year's output figure down 5.6 percent for the first time since data was gathered.
By Yoo Soh-jung, The Korea Herald
http://english.uhak.com/english/newsflash/contentview.asp?no=457

Teachers give bad grades to state-run ESL program
EPIK currently employs fewer than 300 teachers, representing less than 3 percent of the foreigners who come to Korea to teach English.
by Kirsten Jerch
JoongAng Daily staff writer Chun Su-jin contributed to this report.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200407/25/200407252218570379900091009101.html

Underwood Urges 'True' Globalization
The number of foreigners arriving in Korea to study every year is only 8,000, while 160,000 Korean students go abroad, he pointed out.
By Moon Gwang-lip, Korea Times (September 21, 2004) http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200409/kt2004092115561611960.htm

Americans here urged to send in votes
According to the U.S. Embassy there are about 75,000 Americans living in Korea, not including U.S. troops.
by Andrew Petty
The Korea Herald (October 23, 2004)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/10/23/200410230034.asp

[indiglo123]

Can't thank you enough for the info!! I've been searching everywhere for the past few days and with a deadline approaching soon, I have you to thank for helping me out.

Have a great day!!