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Originally Posted by MisterStretch
EPIK is English Program In Korea. Their contracts are fairly standard, but once you get into the nitty gritty with the school you can cut a better deal if the people are reasonable. My contract says 20K an hour for extra teaching but my schools pay me 40K an hour. I'm working on getting summer and winter break off (though I imagine there might be a winter camp...I'm still hoping to get that off)
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This is one aspect where it completely depends on the school. I was at a smaller public school so I didn't have to do winter camp nor summer camp. Some people had to do both. Some people had to wait two weeks, then do the camp for 2 weeks. Some people had to wait one week, do a week of camp, wait another week, and then do another week of camp. Every school is different. Some even tell you that you have to stay in Korea during the vacation period, and will look at your passport afterwards (tell them to fuck off if they do this - they have no right). Mine paid me 25k an hour for extra teaching. I tried to get more, but since the school was so poor they wouldn't budge.
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Most of them use recruiters only because their teaching staff doesn't speak English well. You can do the word-of-mouth thing and get around the recruiters and negotiate directly with some schools.
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True. No one in my school spoke English except for my 4 co-teachers. Fortunately they were great. However, there was no communication - I was always the last one to know everything. Meetings would be held entirely in Korean and they figured that I'd know about class changes, etc. Also, my principal was a complete moron (who also spoke no English). But it's much MUCH worse at a hagwon. Truthfully, I'm happy I did it. It really wasn't that hard and I was able to save a lot. And as I said, my coteachers were fantastic. Some people weren't as lucky.