The average pay at Walmart Canada is about 16 Cad an hour with the won and cad being almost equal that means you earn about 2.5 million won working at Walmart 8-4 with no overtime add in overtime and other possible career opportunities in Walmart and you can get about 3-4 million won a month.When will Koreans raise the wage for E2 teachers? Literally its not worth going to Korea to teach these days.
Korea has long since ceased to be a place to save money. Pre-covid it was great to experience new things, and to open ones eyes in a cultural sense. However since so many young women are flocking to Korea to live out their Korean fantasies, theire is no need for employers to pay more.
Pay was steadily increasing before these women ruined it for all of us.
The problem isnt Korea, the problem is ESL.ESL wages worldwide have been stagnant for years, even decades. There was a time when Korea was desperate for ESL teachers and paid over the odds to get them, those days are long gone and Korean ESL is now on par with its counterparts around the world.If you want a higher salary and career progression, get out of ESL. Most of you/us may need to leave Korea in order to do that, but unfortunately it is what it is.
You know, hanging round TEFL sites after you've left TEFL to sh-t on TEFL is not a good look. Though it's a very popular one judging by the numbers of people who do it on reddit. Have enough confidence in your own choice of career to negate the need to simultaneously cr-p on others'. And spare us the 'I'm just trying to help others by making them see reality' type response.
Feel free to point out one thing I said in the above post that is wrong btw.
Here is a more or less random job I pulled from FB.___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___SUNJIN JUNGGONG / Sinpyeong-myeon, Dangjin-si1) Heavy- construction machinery assembly2) weekly --- 08:00 ~ 08:00 ( 2.5 hours overtime) / 08:00 ~ 10:00 (4.5HRS overtime hours)3) Male under 45 years old4) Average salary 3.3~4.0 million won --- 200% bonus. --- Annual allowance payment --- Meals provided. Breakfast is 1,500 won upon request.5) One room for 4 people in the dormitory is free.6) Free of charge of working clothes / Deduction of working clothes cost when working for less than 3 months.___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ _____https://www.facebook.com/groups/foreignerjob200% bonus. So this would be 8,000,000KRW. Nice.ESL in Korea is dead. For students you need babies and Korea has thelowest birthrate in the OECD.Game over.
Uhhh...
May I also draw your attention to the accommodation. Four to a room.And just so you know... that will be a 6 day work week. And for the 4 million it's going to be 14 hour shifts. Should I get the application ready for you?
Yes, they might want you to work for this money and not desk warm.Like I said. This was a random pull from FB. Th uptake is that manuallabor in factories staffed by uneducated SE Asians is paying moremoney than teaching ESL in Korea.
C'mon guys, wages were always crap in Korea for a standard gig. It was all about the unique cultural experience. Even when I first arrived in the late 90's it wouldn't have been able to compete with a taxi driver's income in Oz. Who went to Korea for the money?