Teach in Korea

How to apply
Money matters
Teacher benefits
Accommodation
The telephone interview
Vaccination and packing
Teacher's duties
Nightlife and activities
Shopping
The E2 working visa

Teacher's Duties

A general teaching contract in Korea will usually be as follows with naturally some differences from school to school. You will be contracted for 30 teaching hours per week but the majority of teachers will usually teach about 25 hours per week. There can be some additional duties which you maybe expected to fulfil such as:

   Writing report cards
   Supervising day-trips
   Student concerts/plays
   Supervising examinations
   One-to-One tutoring of students
   Report cards / parent-teacher meetings
   Setting examinations on course work

Teachers can be expected to hand in their lesson plans either the day/week/month before again depending on the school. You can be asked to do overtime, it is optional and you will be paid for it at the agreed rate in your contract which is generally between 15,000 & 20,000 won per hour.

Classes will generally be less than 12 students and the room may have cameras and speakers in them. This is for your benefit as much as the children's. It can be awkward for the first few classes, but you really do forget about them very quickly.

You will usually team up with a Korean teacher, who will have the class before or after you. The Korean teacher will teach the grammar, forms and structures, while you will teach the conversational, pronunciation side of the language while building their confidence in using the foreign language. In public schools you may have the Korean teacher in the class with you to assist in classroom management and with explanations.