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Originally Posted by hitotsz
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?
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It's not entirely difficult to get a job in Japan, however it's a very competitive market at the moment, so the more you have to offer the easier it'll be. You need a four-year bachelor's degree (three years is acceptable if you're in the UK), and I think it's at least 12 years of schooling in an English speaking school, and to be a native English speaker. A TEFL qualification can help, as can previous teaching experience.
Your questions about office-time I can't answer, you'd need to ask more experienced members who've spent time in Japan. The bare mininum number of hours working for a full-time job will be forty hours (aprox.).
You'd do best to look at these threads:
http://www.japanforum.com/forum/livi...-jp-2-0-a.html
http://www.japanforum.com/forum/livi...ive-japan.html