Go Teach in Korea: Canuck Magazine

by Robert Koehler on March 6, 2008

In Perogie Country, Bill Radford writes in Vue Weekly that Korea’s a good place to teach English.

Heck, if you guys are making 5 mil a month, I could see why.

(via NowNews.net)

{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }

1 boshintang March 6, 2008 at 9:23 pm: I challenge Bill Radford to gather a second opinion from William Kapoun.
2 boshintang March 6, 2008 at 9:30 pm: I also challenge Radford to read up on Korea:

“The most popular free-time activity in Korea is actually mountain hiking.”

LOL! He must be getting his information from a Lonely Planet he found in his grandma’s basement – one that was written before the invention of pc bongs?
3 Rambutan March 7, 2008 at 12:11 am: … because if there’s one thing South Korea needs, it’s more Canadian English teachers.
4 ZenKimchi March 7, 2008 at 12:13 am: “makali (think yogurt wine with strawberries)”

Okay. Article lost all credibility right there.
5 slim March 7, 2008 at 2:06 am: Come for the money, stay for the drinking.

I wonder where he got strawberries out of makkoli…
6 mcnut March 7, 2008 at 7:21 am: yeah most will need to pass a drug test
i dont see a large influx coming anytime soon
7 WE March 7, 2008 at 11:08 am: #6,
Laugh all you want, it’s not as if a considerable number of Americans aren’t addicted to crack, metamphetimine, or heroine, you know.
8 sanshinseon March 7, 2008 at 4:27 pm: Yup, i’ve been addicted heroines like Scarlet in _Gone With the Wind_ all my life long…
9 SomeguyinKorea March 7, 2008 at 6:10 pm: I ignored the article and followed the link to their issue on sex.
10 WE March 7, 2008 at 6:12 pm: #8,

That’s it, crucify me for mistakenly using the French spelling, tabarnak.
11 The_William_G March 7, 2008 at 11:38 pm: Guys it’s published from Edmonton.

A year in Myanmar would be an improvement for them.
12 kimchipig March 8, 2008 at 7:18 am: With an exchange rate of W966 to a Canadian Peso, I don’t think there is going to be a huge influx any time soon.

Just as an aside, I looked at Dave’s ESL Cafe to see what salaries are for English entertainers. I found this:

-Salary of 2.0 million won and up / month – about $2,100-2500 US $2,200-2,600
CAN (depending on education and experience)

First of all, you can make that at Rotten Ronnies here. Second of all, does the poster think the Canadian peso is worth insignificantly less than the US dollar? I was making that kind of money in Korea eight years ago.
13 SomeguyinKorea March 8, 2008 at 11:08 am: #12,

Either someone is misinformed or trying to pull a quick one on Canadians..

You should call and tell them you’ll take the job if you’re paid in Canadian currency. I bet they’ll be begging you to sign a ‘revised’ contract written in Korean only before they hand you your first pay.
14 SomeguyinKorea March 8, 2008 at 11:11 am: …yeah, 2 million a month and they talk about getting ‘qualified teachers’. As you were saying, fast food restaurants pay as much as that in Canada now (heck, I read somewhere that they pay 16-18$ per hour in Calgary).
15 Stacked March 8, 2008 at 4:48 pm: $18 per hour? more like per shift or per day.
16 kimchipig March 9, 2008 at 10:14 am: No, Stacked, many restaurants in Alberta are paying such wages to keep their staff from working in construction or the oil patch.