{"id":4424,"date":"2017-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog?p=4424&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=4424"},"modified":"2018-01-19T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:05:14","slug":"our-grad-answers-questions-teaching-english-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/our-grad-answers-questions-teaching-english-in-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Our grad answers your questions about Teaching English in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the video below to see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/tesol-tesl-tefl-course\/\">TESOL\/TESL\/TEFL grad<\/a>, Emily, answer your questions about\u00a0teaching English in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/korea\/\">Korea<\/a>, including salary, traveling abroad, &amp; what teaching ESL is like.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Foxfordseminars%2Fvideos%2F1721087881265652%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Emily taught ESL in South Korea for two years after graduating with her bachelor&#8217;s degree and TESOL\/TESL\/TEFL certification and has spent the last 6 months traveling the world on her savings from teaching English abroad. Watch the video and read the highlights below:<\/p>\n<p><h3>Want to learn more about teaching English in Korea and other exciting destinations?<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/teaching-abroad\/free-info-sessions\/\">Attend a Free Information Session near you!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>Transcription<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4460\" src=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Our grad answers your questions about teaching English in Korea\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM.jpg 875w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-690x401.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-320x186.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-248x144.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h3>Q: When did you graduate college and how did you decide that you wanted to take this adventure teaching English abroad?<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I graduated college in 2014, and I graduated with a degree in retail merchandising and product development, but I decided that I didn\u2019t want to go that route. I didn\u2019t really click with the fashion world. I wasn\u2019t feeling that. So I graduated and I didn\u2019t know what to do with my life. And I like to travel. I like to try new things and things like that, so a friend of mine suggested I look into teaching English abroad. So I did and it was basically everything I wanted to do. It was work, travel, creating a life for yourself. It\u2019s like an actual job. It\u2019s super awesome to do right after college.<\/p>\n<p>So I got involved. I looked into where to get my certification because I was not actually an English major or an Education major. So I got my TEFL certification with Oxford Seminars. A few months after I graduated from my course with Oxford, the recruiters help you to get a job, and they placed me in a school in South Korea, which was my first choice actually. I was really excited about living in South Korea. I thought it sounded like an amazing place: there were free benefits for new teachers, and so I got that going.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: What can you expect from an average day teaching abroad? What was your average day like teaching English in\u00a0Korea?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Well, it was pretty much as if you were in an American classroom. You get to school, have a snack with the kids, do a few lessons, have lunch, do playground lessons. For the beginning of the day I was with the same group of children. There were 12 of them and it was run just like an American classroom would be, basically. It was full immersion so it was phonics, math, art; I was their teacher for everything. And then at 3:00 pm, they would go home, and I would start teaching older children that were in elementary school during the day and would come for a shorter English lesson in the evening. So after I was done with them it would be around 5:00 or 6:00 pm and my day was over.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: So tell us about\u2026how you felt when you actually got on the plane to leave to go teach English abroad. What was that like?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Somebody asked me last night, \u201cwhat was your biggest challenge?\u201d and my biggest challenge was just getting there because it\u2019s so terrifying not knowing what\u2019s going to happen. I didn\u2019t know anybody living in South Korea. I didn\u2019t know who was going to pick me up from the airport&#8230; but once I arrived, my nerves disappeared. It was so normal and so easygoing\u2026It was so easy once you arrived. Immediately, I was at ease and I was like \u201cOkay, I can live here. This is amazing.\u201d It was really cool.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Were your interviews done through Skype, by phone, or in person?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> They were always by Skype. Sometimes it would be with video and sometimes it would be just audio, but the schools usually want to see you and chat with you on Skype.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4459\" src=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-4.jpg\" alt=\"Our grad answers your questions about teaching English in Korea\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-4.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-4-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-4-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-4-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-4-192x144.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Q: What was it like in the first week or two, when you first got to South Korea and you didn\u2019t know anybody?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> The first week was really terrifying, I guess, because it was a brand new school opening up, so I was one of the first foreign teachers to get there. It was really small&#8230; A week later, another teacher got hired. Two weeks later, two more teachers got hired, and it started growing, our little staff started growing. It was so good after that. Everyone started hanging out, we all made friends with each other. It was really easy once some other teachers got there and we got it all together.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: What was the food like?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> The food was incredible! I\u2019m sure everyone I\u2019m friends with now is sick of me because all I want to do is eat Korean food, because it\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s great quality food, it\u2019s spicy, it has everything in it, and it\u2019s so cheap! You can have a full meal, a really, really nice full meal for like $5 US.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Was it hard to adjust to living in a foreign country once you got there? You were there for two years, right?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Yeah, I was there for two years. At first, I thought it was going to be crazy culture shock or something like that. It was not that much of an adjustment actually. It was like living in any city. You walked to the grocery store to get your stuff. You have your own flat. It wasn\u2019t really a huge culture shock or a hard adjustment really.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Did you have any problems missing your family or friends back home?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Yeah, I did miss my family and friends, especially with the time difference. It\u2019s really hard to talk to people at home because either it\u2019s really early in the morning for you or really late at night for them. It\u2019s hard to get on the same schedule to talk to them. So that was a bit difficult but the whole adjustment to the culture wasn\u2019t bad, even the fact that they spoke a different language. You learn a few words and you\u2019re good to go. And they love foreigners there. They\u2019re not going to be like \u201cNo, I\u2019m not going to help you.\u201d They love to help you. They want to be your friend; they want to get you on Facebook. They\u2019re going to help you with anything. You gain so many support systems once you arrive.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: What was it like on the weekends for you?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> The weekends are amazing. You have so much stuff to do. I was living in Seoul, so I was in the capital, and it\u2019s a huge city and really, really nice. You can do anything you want on the weekends. You can go ride bikes, you can go visit a traditional village, you can go to Gangnam, which is like New York, you can go out. There are a million options. You\u2019re never bored.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Well, I was following you on Instagram and I saw that you took weekends and you jet-setted to different places. Did you go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/japan\/\">Japan<\/a> and a couple other vacations?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I did, I did. For the weekends, it\u2019s hard to do a trip like that, so it would be more for little holidays you get like three-day weekends here and there, and then you can easily book a trip. Japan is like an hour or two hour flight away so that\u2019s really easy to do. On long weekends, I would also like to just travel within South Korea: Go down to the south, go to Busan, and go to some of the surrounding islands. It\u2019s cool to see that because in Seoul it\u2019s just a big city, and then you go outside a little bit, you go south four hours and you\u2019re going back in time. It\u2019s all traditional houses, it\u2019s really different. And that\u2019s when you don\u2019t see a lot of foreigners and they want to talk to you and interact with you. It\u2019s just so cool.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: So now you\u2019re in Australia and you\u2019re thinking about teaching English abroad for another year?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Yeah, I am. I\u2019m looking into jobs right now. So I have an offer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/vietnam\/\">Vietnam<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/country\/china\/\">China<\/a>, so I\u2019m deciding what I want to be doing in the next few weeks and if I want to take those jobs. I\u2019m strongly considering going back to Vietnam because after I finished my contract in South Korea I traveled. I backpacked for three months throughout South East Asia, and Vietnam was amazing. We almost overstayed our Visa. We didn\u2019t want to leave the country. I definitely want to go back there. And teaching there is pretty good also, so I was thinking that would be a good idea.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: What were the living conditions like when you were living in South Korea? Do you have an apartment? Do you share? Do you have roommates? How does that work?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I had an amazing living situation and I have talked to other teachers and seen other teachers\u2019 places and I know I was really lucky. I was in an amazing spot. I was in a little neighborhood just outside the main part of Seoul, and I had a flat to myself. It was just a studio apartment, just a square, but it was really big. I had my own washing machine, I had a shower, I had a queen size bed, I had dishes and everything provided for me, I had a heated floor. It was a really nice apartment. I\u2019ve seen other situations where teachers get to an apartment and it\u2019s like a third of that size and it doesn\u2019t have all these things. It depends on your school and it depends on what kind of place you\u2019re working in. But if I have advice for anybody, you can ask a current teacher at the school if you\u2019re considering working there. You can have them send you pictures of their apartment because, most likely, you\u2019re going to be in the exact same thing. So if you are looking into getting a job and trying to work that out, ask for a teacher\u2019s email and just chat with them a little bit.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: What is something you wish you knew before you started your first job? So you said taking a picture of the apartment. Any other advice for first-time teachers that you wish you knew when you started?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I would just tell somebody to not be so nervous about it. I was really, really nervous about getting on the plane and going, so if I had any advice it would be: just do it, and it\u2019s okay. You\u2019re going to be fine\u2026 There\u2019s nothing I can say like \u201cmake sure you do this\u201d because you can\u2019t. You have to go experience it and embrace it, and depending on what country you go to it\u2019s going to be completely different. But I would just say, just get there and don\u2019t be afraid. So many people are doing this now; it\u2019s not anything to be that shaken up about.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Did you feel safe while you were there?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Yes, really safe. Walking down the streets at home [in the U.S.] at night, I wouldn\u2019t feel safe. In South Korea, I would be by myself at night, in the middle of the night, in random neighborhoods here and there. I would never feel threatened or scared at all. It\u2019s such a safe place. The crime rate is extremely low actually. It\u2019s no problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4461\" src=\"\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-3.jpg\" alt=\"Our grad answers your questions about teaching English in Korea\" width=\"600\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-3.jpg 890w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-3-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-3-690x594.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-3-320x275.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-3-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Photo-Apr-07-6-53-51-AM-3-167x144.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Q: You were talking earlier about your classroom and what it was like&#8230; you shared some other details&#8230; about the type of class you were teaching, and the kids in your class, and how you were first communicating with them. What was that like?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0With my first year students, I had a really small class and they were awesome. I didn\u2019t have them for the full year. My second year students were all six\u00a0years old, six, turning seven, so they were kindergarten age and they were beginners. They didn\u2019t speak a word of English. They couldn\u2019t right their names. They were really, really beginners.<\/p>\n<p>So in the beginning we\u2019d communicate by doing charades, basically, because we couldn\u2019t understand each other. But it was incredible because, as the year went on, we developed such a good relationship and by the end they were writing stories, reading books, taking quizzes, speaking in full sentences. We\u2019d chat about anything and it was so cool to see that growth. And even though in the beginning we couldn\u2019t speak with each other, we got along so well. I loved them from the get go. They were such a good group of students and they were really enthusiastic. And I imagine it\u2019s quite hard for them. Imagine a teacher just coming to you and talking to you in a different language all day long. That\u2019s exhausting and I\u2019m so proud of them for dealing with that.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Did you pick the type of class you wanted or did they match you? Did you say you wanted to teach younger children?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> For most schools in South Korea, if you\u2019re a first-time teacher, you\u2019re going to be teaching kindergarten age. That\u2019s a really popular thing in South Korea is having a private school for kindergarten mostly during the day and an afternoon teaching slightly older elementary students. So in South Korea you can expect to be teaching younger students. As for the level of my class, I didn\u2019t choose that. They matched me with those students and that was that.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly prefer it though. Some of my friends were teaching second or third year students that had been there for a little bit, and I just loved my kids so much. I love that we bonded so much. And that you can see: they started from zero and they became amazing English speakers. It was just such a cool process to see.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: So what if somebody\u2019s on the fence and they&#8217;re\u00a0procrastinating enrolling just to even do the course. Is there any fear factor that should be holding them back or should they worry about anything about the actual certification process?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> No way! It\u2019s actually so good to do the process of it all because it eases your worries a bit, in the in-class portion you actually mock teach, do a mock lesson, so it kind of gets your confidence up speaking in front of people and getting that going.<\/p>\n<p>Also, once you finish the course you can tell them what country you\u2019re interested in, you can tell them three countries if you like, you can tell them one, doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019re going to set you up with recruiters in those countries and you\u2019re going to be able to interview with schools. Even if you don\u2019t want to take the job, just interview with the school and then see what they have to offer. So enrolling in a course is going to set you up with a million options.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: How do you think this is going to impact your resume and job opportunities beyond teaching English abroad?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Oh I think it\u2019s definitely going to positively impact my resume and things like that because it\u2019s a professional job. It\u2019s an actual job. You\u2019ve committed to a contract. You have so much experience traveling and working abroad. It shows a lot of different characteristics of your personality. Employers really like that. And if you want to continue teaching or go back to school or something, it looks so good to have that year.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: When you signed up did you think you were going to do two or three years?\u00a0What did you think you were going to do?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I was going to do a year\u2026 I fell in love with my job and my life there. I was like \u201cOkay. I\u2019m staying another year!\u201d Even when my second year ended I was crying my eyes out. I didn\u2019t want to leave. Honestly, I would go back to South Korea if I could. Maybe later in life once I\u2019ve experienced more things, I could easily live there permanently. And that job and my lifestyle; it was just so amazing. So a year is not enough. I needed two.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Would it be safe to consider teaching abroad as a lifelong career?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I think so, yeah. A lot of people do it, actually. Someone at my school, he was maybe 30-something, and he had been there for seven years or something like that, and had no plans to leave. The longer you stay, they increase your salary every year that you stay there, and the more experience you have the more they increase it\u2026 You can be making as much as you\u2019d be making in the States but it\u2019s so easy to save.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: That was going to be my next question, was it easy to save money?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Oh yeah! I saved lots of money there. It was really cheap cost of living. The school pays for your apartment so you\u2019re not spending money on that. You walk to work everyday. You\u2019re not spending money on a car or anything like that. The food is pretty cheap. I was basically saving half of my paycheck every month and putting that away. And now it\u2019s been like six months where I haven\u2019t been working. I\u2019ve just been traveling using my savings that I\u2019ve made from that. I need to start finding a job now but I\u2019ve had six months of solid travel that I\u2019ve got out of it.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Is it only [for] young people? What about people 50 and older?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> One guy at my school was a bit older. He was, I think, like 49 or 50 and he had been doing it for a really long time, so he was an example that it\u2019s not all young people [teaching English abroad]. The majority is, for sure. It\u2019s people doing a gap year, or people like me. I didn\u2019t know what I wanted to do right after college, but it\u2019s definitely possible to if you\u2019re older than 50.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: Where do you see yourself in five years with all this knowledge and life experience you have?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Hopefully still traveling. I don\u2019t really plan to settle down yet. I want to keep teaching and working, and traveling and doing things like this. But we\u2019ll see. Honestly I don\u2019t know. I could go back to school, I could keep teaching. It\u2019s kind of up in the air, but hopefully still out and about and traveling.<\/p>\n<h3>Q: What is the typical salary and what was the length of your teaching position?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Typically, in South Korea you\u2019re making $2000 US a month, but it\u2019s plenty because you\u2019re not paying for your apartment, you\u2019re not paying for your plane ticket. So it sounds like not a lot but actually, when you factor in the cost of living, it\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, they\u2019ll do a contract for a year. Some schools want more and they\u2019ll offer you more money if you agree to more, sometimes. But yeah, typically it\u2019s about a year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oxfordseminars\/\">Follow us<\/a> to get notified about future\u00a0Facebook Live Q+A&#8217;s with grads, ESL teachers, and travelers all over the world!<\/p>\n<p><h2>Ready to start your adventure teaching English in Korea, and many other great ESL teaching destinations?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/course-guide\/\">Download our Course Guide<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/teaching-abroad\/free-info-sessions\/\">Sign up for a free information session about teaching ESL overseas<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordseminars.com\/tesol-tesl-tefl-course\/locations-dates\/\">Find a TESOL\/TESL\/TEFL course near you<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>[wp_social_sharing social_options=&#8217;facebook,twitter,pinterest&#8217; twitter_username=&#8217;oxford_seminars&#8217; facebook_text=&#8217;Share on Facebook&#8217; twitter_text=&#8217;Share on Twitter&#8217; googleplus_text=&#8217;Share on Google+&#8217; pinterest_text=Share on Pinterest\\&#8221; icon_order=&#8217;f,t,g,p&#8217; show_icons=&#8217;1&#8242; before_button_text=&#8221; text_position=&#8221; social_image=&#8217; \/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-social-sharing\/static\/socialshare.png&#8217;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the video below to see our TESOL\/TESL\/TEFL grad, Emily, answer your questions about\u00a0teaching English in Korea, including salary, traveling abroad, &amp; what teaching ESL is like. 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