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Typhoon · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: Daejeon

This is an ad for Chungnam University in Daejeon. 2.2 for a PhD. 1.7 for a MA in English!!! Wow!!!! That is not a lot of money for sure.

Position Opening

Department of English at Chungnam National University is looking for a full-time instructor as follows:

1. Qualifications
-a native English speaker
-a PhD (preferably in Humanities) or an MA in English

2. Salary
-starting from \2,200,000 or higher depending upon teaching experiences for a PhD or from \1,700,000 or higher for an MA
-Will be raised at a certain rate every year until the completion of the contract

3. Teaching Duties and Courses
-12 hours per week
-English Conversation, Composition for English majors
-Might include English major courses (literature or linguistics) when they are available and when the successful applicant wants to teach
-*no teaching obligation during summer and winter vacations (but can have opportunities to teach for extra income during the vacation)

4. Benefits
-severance pay upon completion of the contract
-medical insurance and national pension 50%
-vacation: officially 20 days during the contract period (See above No. 3*)

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

That is very low. Will they get anyone with a genuine degree?

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

The average annual salary for a Korean professor in the Humanities is
69,070,000 won (that is about 5,755,800 won per month).
http://know.work.go.kr/know/sub4/result_0.asp?search_code=04111&search_name=인문계열교수

Salary Info, Rank, Ed. Workers: 2,920,000 won/month
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=87469

The annual salary of first-year professors ranged from 17 million won at Cheju National University to 43 million won at Sungkyunkwan University.
by Kang Min-seok, JoongAng Daily (September 23, 2001)
link is old (out of date)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200109/23/200109232313052859900090409041.html

Foreign scholars merit equal status

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

I think that anyone with a MA, let along a Ph.D, would have better sense than to teach in korea....especially with the salary being offered.
They would have to be desperate for money I think and graduated in last place.

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

tigerbluekitty · Joined: 19 Apr 2007

F-ing unbelievable. I know a professor with an MA making 3.0 mil a month teaching 7 hours a week! This must be a joke to piss off foreigners.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

The biggest joke about this isn't the salary; it's the vacation time. Put the two together though and you have a really sad joke.

FistFace · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:05 am Post subject:

Geesh, my buddy has a BA and his uni is paying 2.5 base + OT with 4+ months of vacation. Not the best gig, but not bad, either.

It seems that working for many of the SKY unis ain't what it used to be, and is hardly worth bragging about these days, either. Sure, there are those who make 3.0+ with an MA, but the days of those jobs are definitely numbered, and shrinking fast. Another guy I know is in that situation, but they have weekly meetings up the ying-yang.

From what I can see, it's all equalizing.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Someone needs a body and didn't budget for it, I suspect.