Korea’s immense English teaching industry requires a steady influx of qualified teachers who possess degree’s in education and/or valid teaching licenses. Candidates who are qualified to teach in their home country will have a number of opportunities to choose from in South Korea.
Private Language Schools: Gone2Korea works with many high-end private English schools which require qualified teachers.
Public Schools: There are hundreds of new public school positions available, from coast to coast, at the beginning of each semester.
International Schools: i-school opportunities are limited and hard to land (many require in-person interviews) but we do represent a number of these schools and some of them hire teachers from abroad.
Qualified teachers can expect to make somewhere between 2.3 – 2.8 million won/month in the private language school job market. Salaries vary based on a number of factors which include: your field of study, amount of full-time teaching experience, the location of the school and related duties and obligations. Market conditions can also affect salaries. Similarly, you can expect to earn 2.1 – 2.6 million won/month as a public school teacher. International school salaries vary depending on the teachers workload and obligations. Most i-school pay starts in the 2.5 – 2.8 million KRW range and goes as high as 3.8 million KRW/month.
Unfortunately we rarely have college and university teaching opportunities available. These types of jobs are highly competitive, quite limited and in most cases, they do their own in-house hiring without recruiter assistance. In-person interview requests on the school premises are also common. Generally speaking, candidates who are keen on securing college or university teaching roles will need to consider applying directly to the respective university hiring department. Being in Korea, to conduct face-to-face interviews, is also advantageous.
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Gone2Korea is your connection to full-time teaching jobs in South Korea. Western graduates, primarily from the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, use our services to secure jobs with trusted Korean schools, and schools use our services to find and hire enthusiastic teachers from the West.
Worth noting: We’re not a job ‘sourcing’ agency or recruiter that finds new schools on the fly. On the contrary, we work with a select group of schools and programs that we know and trust.
In addition to helping you land a job, we’ll also be helping you with your work visa, departure, arrival, and offering support for the entirety of your contracted term.
Prior teaching experience and related degrees are NOT prerequisites for teaching in Korea. Here’s what you’ll need in order to qualify.
Korean schools and programs offer western English teachers highly competitive benefits packages which includes:
