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Originally Posted by RobinMask
I don't think you understood me, if you plan on doing a good job teaching then it won't be easy or laid-back. Teaching requires a lot of time and effort, and if you just take the "easy" approach you probably won't last longer than one year there.
Teaching in Korea, I'm not too sure how "easy" that is. To my knowledge it's just as demanding - if not more so - than Japan. When I looked into getting a visa there to work (and what the employers ask for) they ask for a lot more than Japan does in terms of paperwork, evidence, qualifications, experience . . . I would say it's not an easy option at all.
In Japan you earn around 250,000 yen a month, and this is around 3,000,000 yen a year. The wages are near enough the exact same wages a teacher would earn in the UK, around £21-24k a year. Most jobs expect you to teach aroun 20-24 contact hours, and I think there's usually around 20-24 office hours too. So let's say 40-45 hours of work a week.
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What I meant to ask was how much hours do you need to work if you do the bare minimum and how much hours do you need to work if you do extra hard work in preparing for classes. Do people come in a lot for the office hours? About how much of the office hours becomes waiting time?
How hard is it to get a teaching job in Japan? Can you still get it even if you have bad GPA?
Also could I teach Korean on the side? What's the demand like for learning Korean language?