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**FalHaitle** · 01-12-2010, 02:51 AM

Elok: also take a look at the Seoul Craig's List. A lot of crap gets posted there, but the volume is high.

Oh reeeeeallly?

Hrm. My relatives told me that about the English thing, perhaps because they kept wanting me to sign up with Samsung or whomever instead...

The run of the mill kiddie hagwons prefer white faces, but nobody sane wants to teach at those ANYWAY and a lot of the SAT test-prep places and adult places prefer gyopos. And then after some Canuck who had been teaching English in Korea got caught with his pants down with a kid in Thailand,they really tightened up the E-2 (standard English teacher visa) regulations, requiring criminal background checks and whatnot, which is really time consuming. And since in Korean businesses they generally want everything done yesterday, people with F-series visas (mostly F-4, which is the gyopo visa, and F-2, the spouse visa) became pure gold. There's lots and lots of good jobs that only hire people with F-visas, especially the part-time gigs.

To get an F-4 visa you need a copy of a cancelled Korean family registry form or other evidence of cancelled citizenship, either in your name or your parents' name(s) and you're golden.

What I'd recommend is either:

1. Get an afterschool gig at a Seoul public school (they advertize on worknplay periodically and are usually afternoon only and want F-visa people and that way you don't have to deal with the Seoul Ministery of Education directly) that provides housing and get some part-time jobs either before or after that job to make more money.

2. Get a regular public school job in a big/rich enough city to have lots of part-time around (Suwon, Bundang, Busan, etc.) and do part time work after hours.

3. Take care of your own housing and string together a few part time jobs into a sane schedule. With my current schedule, I'm making about 2.4 million/month at my morning and lunchtime jobs, finishing at 1 PM, not even counting my afternoon and evening stuff. This'd be harder to do as a newbie, but very possible especially if you have some way to get your hands on a few tutoring gigs (relative, etc.). For this to work you'd need to be within commuting distance of a place with lots of part-time jobs (such as southern Seoul).

F-4 visas are gold. If you can't get one (for example if your parents never surrendered their Korean citizenship and you never were a Korean citizen) you'd be screwed a bit, but you could still get a decent enough public school gig anywhere besides Seoul (the Seoul Ministry of Education has enough applicants that it doesn't usually hire people without experience/BEds/certification).

01-12-2010, 02:51 AM	#13
FalHaitle Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 398 Senior Member	Elok: also take a look at the Seoul Craig's List. A lot of crap gets posted there, but the volume is high. Oh reeeeeallly? Hrm. My relatives told me that about the English thing, perhaps because they kept wanting me to sign up with Samsung or whomever instead... The run of the mill kiddie hagwons prefer white faces, but nobody sane wants to teach at those ANYWAY and a lot of the SAT test-prep places and adult places prefer gyopos. And then after some Canuck who had been teaching English in Korea got caught with his pants down with a kid in Thailand,they really tightened up the E-2 (standard English teacher visa) regulations, requiring criminal background checks and whatnot, which is really time consuming. And since in Korean businesses they generally want everything done yesterday, people with F-series visas (mostly F-4, which is the gyopo visa, and F-2, the spouse visa) became pure gold. There's lots and lots of good jobs that only hire people with F-visas, especially the part-time gigs. To get an F-4 visa you need a copy of a cancelled Korean family registry form or other evidence of cancelled citizenship, either in your name or your parents' name(s) and you're golden. What I'd recommend is either: 1. Get an afterschool gig at a Seoul public school (they advertize on worknplay periodically and are usually afternoon only and want F-visa people and that way you don't have to deal with the Seoul Ministery of Education directly) that provides housing and get some part-time jobs either before or after that job to make more money. 2. Get a regular public school job in a big/rich enough city to have lots of part-time around (Suwon, Bundang, Busan, etc.) and do part time work after hours. 3. Take care of your own housing and string together a few part time jobs into a sane schedule. With my current schedule, I'm making about 2.4 million/month at my morning and lunchtime jobs, finishing at 1 PM, not even counting my afternoon and evening stuff. This'd be harder to do as a newbie, but very possible especially if you have some way to get your hands on a few tutoring gigs (relative, etc.). For this to work you'd need to be within commuting distance of a place with lots of part-time jobs (such as southern Seoul). F-4 visas are gold. If you can't get one (for example if your parents never surrendered their Korean citizenship and you never were a Korean citizen) you'd be screwed a bit, but you could still get a decent enough public school gig anywhere besides Seoul (the Seoul Ministry of Education has enough applicants that it doesn't usually hire people without experience/BEds/certification).
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