[clairdeluned]

I'm thinking about teaching SAT in a hakwon in Korea next year. I got a pretty good SAT score, so I'm pretty sure they'll hire me. Anyone know what it's like paying-wise, hours-wise, if there's a particular hakwon I should try to work at, etc.? I'd love to hear experiences

[Lebanese_Blonde]

reputable hakwons only hire uni graduates from top schools like all my teachers were ivy league graduates :|
but i'm sure you can find a smaller hakwon that'll higher younger people to teach. maybe you should consider teaching tofl (toefl?) instead you'll have a better chance of getting hired at a nice place. as for the pay, its a fair wage for a fair amount of work. teachers don't get paid much, hakwon teachers get less. but if ya like what you're doing i don't think the pay will be too disappointing.

o and the best SAT hakwons in seoul that i know of are kaplan, princeton's review, Elite, and lawrence
and theres basically one on every street corner in the business areas of the city

[erure]

i don't think you'll be able to teach SAT at a hakwon without at least an undergraduate degree... plus they look at college names like yale and harvard +_+ but you could do small tutoring jobs at gangnam and they'll pay a lot... like $20~30 an hour at least i think. i worked at a hakwon in the u.s. for korean students and i basically was an assistant to the teachers rather than actually teaching ^^;

[saera]

One of my good friend's brother taught at an SAT hakwon the summer of his freshman year in college. He got a full ride to Amherst, and he went to IMSA (public boarding school in IL that you need to take the SAT to get accepted, most of the students as incoming freshmen scored above 1450 with the old SATs). Anyways.

I'm not sure which one he taught at, but it's really well known and REALLY expensive. I think he got paid fairly well. From what I heard he started off teaching 4 hours a day, and then his boss saw how good of a teacher he was and he started teaching 8 hours a day.

[delightful123]

i taught at an SAT hakwon but in texas. i didn't really teach SAT though.. i taught kids 2nd grade to even 11th grade... we just went over novels.. essay writing... stuff like that. =]

i got paid 12 bucks an hour.. but i worked 4 days a week... like a couple classes each day... ><

[<yiboy>]

my friend got paid 4000 won per hour at some hakwon in bundang....and supposedly it's one of those really well known hakwons... hahaha he got ripped off like crazy, but minimum wage in korea is 3000 won or something like that, so i guess he got by. It's not like he has a degree though. Just your average highschool senior who had graduated. So i guess pay can be expected to be around there.

[sarangie]

it really depends which hakwon you're going to work in...
best known are hard to get in (hired, i mean)
i agree with say ocean on "known name schools"
MOST koreans only know Harvard, Stanford, and UCLA, some know NYU.
yale or princeton are top schools here but...in korea, they're unknown

i would go for private lessons, not hakwons
i was planning to teach in korea.
my aunt(teacher) living in korea, talked to her friends if they want any
tutors for their kids..
(she told them that i go to Hopkins)
got 12 calls from them.
one parent was gonna pay about $100 per hour...>.<
crazy, huh?
but i ended up not going to korea...T.T

[clairdeluned]

^ Wow. Maybe I should ask my aunts to ask around and see if anyone wants a tutor Thanks for the advice!

[Lebanese_Blonde]

my friend got paid 4000 won per hour at some hakwon in bundang....and supposedly it's one of those really well known hakwons... hahaha he got ripped off like crazy, but minimum wage in korea is 3000 won or something like that, so i guess he got by. It's not like he has a degree though. Just your average highschool senior who had graduated. So i guess pay can be expected to be around there.

haha actually some places dont even abide by any type of minimum wage law,
i mean people working in retail can get paid 1000 won an hour and have no one to go run crying to but what do u expect w/ unskilled labor anyway - - especially since jobs are scarce these days hehe

[saera]

Lotteria pays only like 3000 won an hour. So I guess you can base it off of that.

[<yiboy>]

I'm just glad I don't work in korea. lol. It def. does put a new perspective on money though, doesn't it?