Teaching ESL in Korea

Update: October 2008...
For newer information about getting your E2 visa, check out this vid by "zedg04"
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=c47rHsMIgzQ

Thinking of teaching English in South Korea? I was there for several years and wanted to give some honest advice for those who are thinking of making the leap. This is a very general overview of different types of jobs you can get and what might be best for you. Some of the advice recruiters may tell you isn't always so honest, since they are trying to make a dollar.

This is a huge subject so if you have any specific questions send me a message or write a comment. I've been around the block in Korea as a teacher, teaching kindergarten through adult ages.

I've made a few other vids on this topic.

Teaching ESL in Korea....part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNRUpUWnsdk

Teaching ESL in Korea...viewer questions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQJKOOQGnw
(This is the most recent)


LOOKS LIKE VISA RULES FOR ESL TEACHER IN KOREA HAVE COMPLETELY CHANGED (AS OF DEC. 15TH 2007) AND HAVE BECOME FAR MORE STRINGENT. YOU NOW MUST HAVE A CRIMINAL RECORD BACKGROUND CHECK, HIV TEST, DRUG TEST, ETC. CHECK OUT MORE AT THIS LINK:
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2883449


If you find this vid useful...please SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL...there will be more useful vids about teaching esl in Korea to come!

Some good job resources are:

www.englishspectrum.com
www.pusanweb.com
www.worknplay.co.kr
www.eslcafe.com

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[BoogieBoogieBoyLock]

ooooohhhh boy! Did you teach at Wonderland Hwajung your first year? Now I'm nervous, haha, with that face you made! and the "blacklisted" thing?! what's that mean???? What was so bad about it?? I guess I'll learn the hard way like you did. Ah well. It'll be like "teach eng. in korea" boot camp, and I'll be able to do anything after. . . . .right? would you say your experience was something like that??? hahaha

[BusanKevin]

@BoogieBoogieBoyLock I was at Wonderland in Ilsan.....shitty place!

[EvaxBlends]

Hey BusanKevin, my mom is a teacher and is looking into going to south korea to teach for profit and for the adventure. We are all very excited to go for about a year or so, but she said when she was talking to a company, they would only "sponsor" her and not the whole family. Know of anything we can do or any companies that will do this? thanks

[BusanKevin]

Sounds like your mother applied for a job at a language school. The would normally never sponsor a family. If she is a teacher wherever you are from, she should apply to a proper international school. There are many in Seoul. This is the hiring season though. Google some, go to the employment section and then she needs to send her resume in asap. They normally do all their recruiting of teachers in january and Feb. Those schools normally have packages for families!

[TheFloodhater]

I now want to go to korea

[jadama27]

wow...seriously....i am also an african american and i would like to go there....maybe we can be in this thing 2 gether....i have an african american frend who is already there and she works at a hagkwon.....i hope that they are not discriminate towards us with the brown skin....it pisses me off to think that the media has created this stigma that the african americans are unitelligent...thats isnt true....hit me back though...

[zeox70]

Thanks for all the information, I want to teach in Public School, either Junior High or High School. I read you don't have to actually speak Korean, is that true or not? I'm learning it, slowly, anyway - but it's always good to know.

[redeyeblues11]

thanks for the info!

[TheRachmaninoffFan]

Ahhh I really want to do this!!! How long have you been in Korea??

[marisoltena]

Wow! Thanks SOOO much for posting this video! I'm trying to get all of my paperwork done on time to head over there in September, but the problem is that I don't get my B.A. until August, so I was told that I might have to go to Japan to finish the work visa... That made me really nervous, but since you mentioned it in such a positive way, it made me feel much better. :)

[MooseBaker]

I do this in China.

[TEFLSpeaking]

Kevin, what the job market of teaching test prep (such as TOEFL or TOEIC) in South Korea?

[tomsega]

I might be leaving for Incheon within the next month. More nervous about the simple task of teaching English to children in general than living in a foreign land!

[xXsadanghaeXx]

what company did you go for? and would you be able to go if you JUST got out of highschool?