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.
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I challenge Bill Radford to gather a second opinion from William Kapoun.
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?
… because if there’s one thing South Korea needs, it’s more Canadian English teachers.
“makali (think yogurt wine with strawberries)”
Okay. Article lost all credibility right there.
Come for the money, stay for the drinking.
I wonder where he got strawberries out of makkoli…
yeah most will need to pass a drug test
i dont see a large influx coming anytime soon
#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.
Yup, i’ve been addicted heroines like Scarlet in _Gone With the Wind_ all my life long…
I ignored the article and followed the link to their issue on sex.
#8,
That’s it, crucify me for mistakenly using the French spelling, tabarnak.
Guys it’s published from Edmonton.
A year in Myanmar would be an improvement for them.
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 $2,200-2,600
CAN (depending on education and experience)
First of all, you can make that at Rotten Ronnies here. Second of all, does the poster think the Canadian peso is worth insignificantly less than the US dollar? I was making that kind of money in Korea eight years ago.
#12,
Either someone is misinformed or trying to pull a quick one on Canadians..
You should call and tell them you’ll take the job if you’re paid in Canadian currency. I bet they’ll be begging you to sign a ‘revised’ contract written in Korean only before they hand you your first pay.
…yeah, 2 million a month and they talk about getting ‘qualified teachers’. As you were saying, fast food restaurants pay as much as that in Canada now (heck, I read somewhere that they pay 16-18$ per hour in Calgary).
$18 per hour? more like per shift or per day.
No, Stacked, many restaurants in Alberta are paying such wages to keep their staff from working in construction or the oil patch.