Korean Job Discussion Forums

[luminousstar]

Is it standard to include "no private tutorings while working at this school" clause in contracts? Why don't employers want you to teach privately? Shouldn't it be okay as long as it does not affect your teachings at the school?

I guess it is illegal to have other part time jobs with an E2 visa......Is it illegal even if you have a F4 visa?

E2 or F4, this isn't fair!!!

[Homer]

[BigBuds]

They put it in the contracts because it's illegal on an E-2 visa (it's legal if you have an F2-1 though) and if you get caught or dobbed in to immigration, you'll get deported and both you and the school will have to pay a fine.

Also, the school will lose you as teacher and it's very expensive to find, hire, and fly over a new teacher. Not to mention the fact that it'll take 3 weeks (at least) or more to find a new teacher and during that time without a foreign teacher the parents will complain and they'll lose students.

Losing students=losing money.

I'm not justifying it. I think it's a stupid law. In Japan you can legally do privates, no one cares but here it's a different story.

I advise against it, especially because immigration now gives a 2,000,000 won reward for dobbing in teachers working illegally. It's not just Koreans you have to worry about dobbing you in either. I know of teachers who have been dobbed in by co-workers and the co-workers have been paid the 2,000,000 won by immigration. It��s just not worth the risk these days and immigration is cracking down on it big time.

Also, you just cause more problems for teachers here who are working legally. It just keeps perpetuating the bad reputation of foreign teachers here.

[inkoreaforgood]

If you can get an F-series visa, you're set here. Get your F-4, Korean Child, and do whatever you want here, workwise. Now go.

[buymybook]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Listen, I think you know the answer to your own question.

Stop bugging me about being a foreigner, go look up your hojeok and eat your kimchi chigae.

[Homer]

[weatherman]

........sucks. If money is god, then worship.

[Gorgias]

@BigBuds, could you please post further information about how to make that 2,000,000 per snitch, that sounds a lot more lucrative than teaching privates. Are you serious about that? God, I could make 10,000 dollars tomorrow! Hope to here more about this!

[the eye]

[Homer]

[Faron]

I've read alot of posts about public school teachers filling up their time by doing privates in the school. Now they say it's legal. How does it work? Do you ask the principle and he givess you the ok and you do extra classes paid for by the parents? I know you can do extra classes for x number of won but can you really do pirvates? How would you go about doing it? Thank you in advance.

[nene]

can anyone verify that oft repeated claim of 1,000,000 or 2,000,000W for reporting illegal teaching?