Welcome to the forums.  I hope you find whatever it is you're looking for, and that you can contribute to our community to make our jobs and lives a little better and easier.

I'd like to invite you to look around at all the lessons others have shared.  There's certainly enough to fill out your own classes, to supplement the lessons you're already doing, to provide inspiration for summer and winter camps, and to spark discussion about different ways to approach our classes. 

Many of us---me included---teach from textbooks, and so some of these lessons can't be adopted outright.  Instead we're stuck trying to mold awkward dialogues and stories into a meaningful 45 minutes.  I'd encourage you to share tips that have worked in your class for your textbooks, because chances are other users are using the same materials.  How do you approach your classes?  How do you budget your time?  How do you teach dialogues and readings that might seem unteachable?  Even if your lesson is specific to a particular class, feel free to share; if enough people do that we can even have different subforums for each grade.  All of these things are really valuable for your peers who are using this site.  I'll tell you what, I learn a lot from seeing and reading what others are doing, and it cheers me up to see others dealing with the same issues I am. 

When Arsalan started this site in 2006 I thought it would be kind of a one-stop shop for Jeollanam-do, with its buy and sell forum, its current events forum, its lesson plan forums, its travel forum, and so on, but Facebook kind of took care of all that.  I would still encourage users to let others know about whats going on, though: festivals, demonstration classes, parties, concerts, and so forth. 

We also need to stay up-to-date with immigration information and with any chances to pension, visas, criminal checks, banking, and stuff like that, so please share.

You're free to post just about anything you want, from current issues to teaching topics to youtube videos to whatever.  Please keep the pictures worksafe, and please refrain from attacking other people.  I'm all for debate and for expressing ideas, but any comments that target other users will be deleted, as will hateful or racist remarks, and repeat offenders will quickly be deleted and banned.  We are all frustrated from time to time, and it's great to sometimes just vent to other people.  You're welcome to do that here, but let's not turn this into a hate fest.  Let's make this a positive, constructive site, one that helps us feel better about our jobs and our lives in Korea.  I don't know about you, but I get enough negativity elsewhere, I'd like to keep it out of here.

Please note, there is a 5-post minimum required for members to view and download attachments.  This is somewhat strongly enforced, and is intended to encourage participation among all members and to discourage freeloading, among other reasons.  "Empty posts"---or posts like "why can't I see attachments"---will be deleted and repeat offenders will be warned or banned.  This has been a prominent feature of the site for some time, and it's simply common sense that members of a forum familiarize themselves with how that forum works.

Again, welcome to the forums and enjoy your stay.  If you have any problems, questions, or comments post them somewhere on here, or send a moderator a private message. We're also looking for people to help organize the lesson plans here and to update our master list, so if you'd like to help out please send a moderator a PM.  Thanks again,

Brian
Suncheon


Read first:
1. Major Changes to Waygook Downloads - This post explains why there's a 5-post requirement to download lesson plans. 

2. F.A.Q. - Answers for everything related to teaching and life in Korea.

3. Introduce yourself on the Introductions board.

4. Check out the Life in Korea board to see how to send money home, get a cell phone, and anything related to living in Korea.

5. Read a few posts on the Contract, and Job Related Issues board to see familiarize yourself with Korean taxes, and get advice on how to deal with co-workers and students. 

6. The lesson boards are split up into Elementary, Middle, High School and University.  The Multi-Level Concepts and Lessons board has some awesome game templates and ideas that apply to all grade levels. 

7. The Gabfest is a great place to go if you want to talk about stuff not related to Korea or teaching. 

wow, very impressed with the professionalism and helpful of this site.  I have been in Korea 9 years and wish I had known about this sooner.

Thanx! Tons of resources and useful people on here. Not that it makes me any better, but I'm a highschool teacher back home teaching elementary in gyeongnam province. Definitely having a great time. Going on strong for 2 years and am looking to stay for a while. Too much passion for traveling...

Great idea in the first place, and glad to see it has expanded so much!

Hi, I'm from South Africa and this is my first time teaching and in Korea. I am so happy that I found out about this site before actually starting to teach. It really is wondergul, thanks so much!

No, you don't have to post everytime you want to download something...it's just something you have to do when you join up...it's supposed to prevent spambots from messing with the site. I think...

I am a new teacher and this site has proven to be an asset to any teacher in Koea. This site was actually referred to me by in instructer during orientation.

Waygook has proved to be helpful to me already and I am only a few weeks in! Thanks - great resource!

I understand that there is two options that allow me to download. 1. is to post does that include questions and comments like this one? 2. is to pay I tried to pay and the sight directed me to pay pal. I have an account with paypal. But Im not to familiar with it. What email address do I send the payment to for waygook. Paypal is requesting an email address for the receiver.

Thanks for having such a useful site!  I just got to Daejeon a month ago and will be teaching children in elementary through middle school, as well as having conversation groups with college students.  This site will be an invaluable resource!