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[regicide]

I was in a Jim Gil Bang in Daejeon recently and a K guy starting talking to me in fairly good English. I was surprised because it was the first time in three months anyone had spoken to me in that place in English. Anyway, the first thing he said was he was surprised to see me here. He went on to say most foreigners would go to the Yusong hot springs area. I said "I live near here,that is why I am here" Then he said " you arent an English teacher are you? " Even though I am I responded no. He went on to say how he hated English teachers because they earned too much money. I said "oh really, how much do they earn?" Expecting to hear a couple of million a month or so he said "W40,000 an hour." And said , " at 8 hours a day they are making 320,000 a day, much more than back home". I agreed with him and was hoping to talk more and take a couple of shots at him and also see where he was coming from , but we both dashed out of the hot sauna and I didn't see him again.

Anyone else ever get the "inside scoop" about what they are thinking?

[ajuma]

Ok...let's say that you work in a hagwon and make 2.1 mil a month. You teach 30 hours a week for 4 weeks (I'm rounding here) that's 17,500 an hour. Nowhere NEAR 40,000! Of course you have 5-40 students in your class. Now, if you are teaching 1-1, it only follows that you should be paid more for the individual attention that you give to 1 student.

If you run into that guy again, tell him how you can't even get a repair guy in the States to come to your house to LOOK at your problem for less than 50,000!!!

[waltjocketty]

I make 27k/hr, and I thought that was pretty good,

[Ya-ta Boy]

Clearly, the guy in question is talking about private lesson fees, not salary, although he may not know it.

[antoniothegreat]

[IlIlNine]

... that's not the point.

Do you hate people for making 'too much money'?

You should have told that guy about this interesting economic system where everyone is equal... and then suggested he emigrate to the north.

[mishlert]

When doing your taxes here (U.S.) you not only have to put in your gross pay, but also your housing; that counts as what part of your pay as you would have to have paid it had the school not given you housing.
So, when calculating pay here, remember to add in housing.

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[ChuckECheese]

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[Juregen]

Why did he not assume we can work 12 hours per day?


12 * 40.000 = 480.000 per day

that would be a far more fair assumption .......

aynway if you are doing privates and get up to 8 hours a day (how many days a week?), then yes what you earn is sweet. Ofcourse you still need +12 hours in total to prepare for these 8 hours of classes .....

8*40.000= 320 000 - 360.000/12 = 26.667 won

so even if they pay you 40.000 for one hour of teaching they forget to calculate the pre work that goes into these privates.

For me a good day would be 6 hours and a normal day 3 hours.
Which is sufficient for me. Especially cause i am doing some extra studying myself ....

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[Young FRANKenstein]

[some waygug-in]

I once had an adult student tell me how much she envied my job/life in Korea, because I made so much money and had so much free time.

I questioned her a bit and pointed out that I didn't have a lot of free time, she actually had much more than I and that I wasn't making a lot of money either. Actually got screwed over royally by that place and never got a dime of it afterwards. The place went t.i.t.s up and I couldn't even take them to the labor board.

I suppose this attitude is a hold over from the pre- IMF days, when there was a lot of money to be made....for everyone, not just the few with the right connections.


I've also had adjumas at the market sneer when I asked for a discount, because they were sure that I was "loaded".