The ultimate guide to teaching ESL in a South Korean university.
Find out how many classes you teach in a day, if you have office hours, the basic salary and of course, whether you really get 5 months of paid vacation. Is teaching in a South Korea university the ultimate ESL teaching job in the world? Watch the full video to find out.
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0:00 Intro
0:09 Jackies experience teaching in South Korea
0:18 What a typical day teaching in a South Korea is like
1:08 A huge perk of the job
1:47 English conversation classes
2:45 Does working as an English Teacher give you freedom?
3:15 Outro
Transcript for Day in the Life of an English Teacher in Korea:
Hey, this is Jackie from mylifeteachinginakoreanuniversity.com. So I taught English in South Korean universities for 10 years. I'd like to share with you kind of a day in the life of teaching in a South Korean university.
So basically, I would have classes starting around 8 a.m and then the last class I might have would be like 5 or 6 p.m. In that day, I would have generally two to three classes that were 1.5 to say two hours long. There were some three-hour classes which were a bit gruelling but generally, it was around two hours in length and then during the week, I would have some office time, some grading, some prep etc.
So generally I would teach between 12 and 15 hours a week and then I would have say about equal that, say like 10 to 15 hours of prep and grading. It's a pretty sweet job, about 30 hours a week or even less once you get some experience doing it and then you'll spend less time doing prep because you can kind of recycle your lesson plans from year to year.
The best thing about a Korean university job is that you have two, 16 week semesters or well 15 to 16 week semesters and then the rest is vacation time. So if you do the simple math, 2 times 16 is 32 weeks. That leaves 20 weeks. So those are generally paid vacation times which is pretty crazy when you consider it. What other job would give you five months of paid vacation? Probably nowhere, which is why Korean university jobs are some of the most coveted ESL teaching jobs in the world.
All right, so what did I actually teach? The vast majority of native English speakers in Korean universities will teach English conversation classes. So freshman students have to take one year of English conversation as mandated by the Korean government so that would be like two, two-hour classes or something like that. The students will be in any major, not just English majors so you'll teach some great students mostly in the humanities or like film, that kind of thing but you'll also teach some very low-level students so think like mechanical engineering or computer science. They have gifts and other things not related to English in most cases so it could be a bit of a struggle but it was not an especially difficult job to do.
There are also other classes. For example, writing. You might teach English majors presentations and public speaking, business English, medical English, it kind of just depends on the university if the native English speaker would be teaching that class or Koreans would be teaching that class. The best thing about my job is that I had a ton of freedom.
So in most cases, you can choose your own textbook, you can write your own tests, and give your own homework assignments. Basically, nobody's looking over your shoulder unless you actually don't come to class, you don't submit your grades, you don't give tests at the appropriate times, that kind of thing. That's kind of a big no-no but as long as you follow the basic rules, nobody is actually checking on you that much so do your best. Plan your lesson, show up for class every day, and give homework assignments, but besides that yeah, you have a ton of freedom for how you actually want to conduct your classes.
