My overall experience teaching English in Korea 🇰🇷 (do I recommend it?)

Hello, everyone!! I hope you're having a wonderful day 💕 In today's video I will be going over my ENTIRE experience teaching English in Korea. I spent a total of 16 months teaching English in Korea, and I finally got up to telling you my overall thoughts now that I am back in the US traveling. 😊
I hope this helps you guys out, especially if you're thinking of coming over to Korea to teach English. Let me know what videos you want me to make about teaching English in Korea! I want to do what I can to help you guys out. ☺️
As always, thank you guys so much for all of the love and support and for accompanying me on this journey of mine. You are amazing! ✨
with 💕,
~Cherie
🎬 Here are a few Q&A's I've done about ✨teaching and Korea:✨
spilling all the tea about teaching English in Korea ☕️🇰🇷 | a very honest Q&A: • spilling all the tea a...
answering your burning questions about Korea🔥🇰🇷 (Korea Q&A feat. Korean snacks 🍭): • answering your burning...
🇰🇷 answering all your (personal) questions about Korea | Korea Q&A 🇰🇷: • 🇰🇷 answering all your ...
📚Information about the EPIK program:
www.epik.go.kr/index.do
📸 s o c i a l m e d i a:
instagram: / cherie_moore
Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/1244280896
📥 b u s i n e s s i n q u i r i e s
[e-mail]
🎶 m u s i c:
Taking a Gap Year (epidemic sound)
www.epidemicsound.com/track/K...
🎬 e q u i p m e n t:
camera: Canon EOS M50 Mirrorless www.amazon.com/dp/B079Y45KTJ/...
editing: premiere pro

[@itiz1]

Woah you uploaded it so fast! Thanks for the videooooo❤

[@AD7Films]

Love this Cherie, very interesting.

[@KathyakaNina]

It is great hearing from you Cherie & knowing your honesty on teaching. I am a private music instructor in the States & I have definitely learned somethings. Some kids are easy some are difficult but we gota help them & love them as much as we can as teachers. I’m hoping to get in Grad school for music education

[@avg18]

It's very nice of you to share your point of view on teaching in Korea, especially fir those who want to try it. Sometimes I feel the experience gets too romanticize, but they way you explain it, makes it very real with the good and the nor-so-good😅 Regarding as to what will you do when you get back to Korea, I can't really guess what it will be, except that it might require for you to speak the language more (I get that from all the serious korean studies you've been doing 😊)

[@lizavarga6452]

I really waited this video thank you!!❤

[@jmgolo8893]

Thank you for this! ☺️

[@raijaynehearse]

Looking forward to the red and green flags video and some help. Good to see you back on KZbin

[@MylesGmail]

Thank u! I'm almost done with my online TEFL course

[@wandagreen4330]

Thank you, Cherie! I think you are just very optimistic, young, privileged, pretty, red-head, etc.; you had the experience of your dad serving in the military and returning to visit South Korea where he served-- he and you deserved to be treated well. You had everything going for you. I believe you have grown, matured, endured hardship as a good soldier of God. If I remember correctly, your first videos showed you, ...alone and getting over your ex. ...made me worried for you; but you have really excelled. I am proud of you. I wish I were confident enough to teach like you did. Brava! Sincerely,

[@ClayMastah344]

What a kind comment

[@jadaclark9440]

Great video! I think a good thing for new teachers or just teaching looking for new jobs, is to after interviewing with the boss, interview with one of the English teachers to get a sense of the school. If there's a teacher who has been there for several years, it's probably a good one. That's what I did and I'm on my way to Korea in just a few weeks!

[@itiz1]

It sounds like everybody but you had a bad experience haha I hope you’ll have fun and succeed at your new job 🎉❤

[@danielpark8003]

You have a good experience. My experience is more special. I understand Korea is not easy to live. I had my ups and downs. When I lived there I met Robert Park an activist back in 2009 at Seoul Station. He introduced me to North Korean children who are starving and I shook hands with a female defector from North Korea. I also met a famous jazz singer from Seoul Yun Hee Jung and she lost 50 pounds. I also saw Pastor Benny Hinn in Seoul at a Jew Messianic Church in Gangnam at a church basement. There was 1500 people present and I brought my trumpet. When I was living in Yesan, Chungnam Province there was a lady named Kathleen Stephens who worked for the US Peace Corps back in 1977 and 1978. I worked at a hagwon in Anyang in 2006. I met a ten year old model who lived in New Zealand. I had few chances to go to Japan, but I chose Koera.

[@AprilH.]

I have a friend who worked @ a Hogan but had to do a midnight run eventually. The director of the school sexually harassed several employees multiple times and the director was told and did not care. The other thing that was so hard for my friend was that foreign teachers had more breaks than her SK collogues. She was touched on many parts of her body by many male members of the staff constantly. She had no where to turn, had signed a contract and fell into a deep depression due to how she was treated by the staff and many parents who were very difficult at times. A father of one of her students pushed her back into her chair. After this...she did a midnight run. She is home now and safe but she is in therapy 2x a week. She is/was a certified teacher in the US before she went to this place. She knows how to teach. She also has never been depressed until this experience so....wow...don't do it😡

[@lauraelainedesilets1189]

Your Mental Health is so important. Your thoughts create your experience. You may be positive but your a Christian living in the world. I've had good jobs as a teacher here in the states. I teach PE. I think alot of your trials helped to you grow really strong. I knew your struggles so I did not judge because I'm just to pray... And I've never taught abroad. You had many great experiences there so I'm happy you are able to go back. KZbin is a great life raft. You are human girl. Keep going to church because that's your family. Never know coworkers thoughts and it is not our business just do your job well. Like to hear your next video on it all. I love your upbeat personality!! We need more happy christians who love life. Blessings in your new endeavors. Peace ✌️🕊️

[@gt6606b]

❤

[@shawno2380]

One of the problems with many schools is that there were too many foreigners coming to Korea over the past 10 years. So many Koreans take us for granted nowadays. Plus there was no incentive to raise the pay. So many schools are quite bad due to how replaceable we had become. Your school was a nice exception to the general rule. If you were 12 to 15 plus years ago you got more of a guest of honor treatment and much better pay with inflation and exchange rates factored in. You should wait and try to get hired again at your last school. Most will not be like this for reasons explained above. New teachers looking into coming to Korea do need to understand many employers increasingly being inflexible and paying too low in relation to the cost of living. You really need to make 3 million won or more a month. But you can ask for 2.6 and up due to some shortages recently. Korea has gotten a bad reputation lately. Many are going to other countries like China for much better pay, more relaxed work conditions with a much cheaper cost of living. You can come to Korea but don't expect to make much money anymore. As for EPIK the pay is lower. Even lower. 2.1 million won to start which is now Korean minimum wage. You can ask for 2.5 2.6 or 2.7 in some hogwans. Check the Facebook groups. Do not accept too low of pay or you will have a hard time. You can make 4 or 5 million won equivilent in China and more laid back work environment. Like I said OP go back to your former school. It was rare. Most hogwons are like your first experience. Chekc the Facebook groups Daves ESL cafe and echinacities websites for jobs. Good luck.

[@shawno2380]

I meant to add foreigners were more rare12 to 15yearsago so that is why you got treated and paid better. Thats why China is so good right now due to an even higher demand and rareity of teachers. It is the way Korea used to be.

[@pickmeupstix]

@@shawno2380Thank you for your thoughts. Interesting to hear that China would have more relaxed conditions. I’m suddenly flirting with teaching in Korea, so just researching around.

[@ashwult7315]

I watch your story on Ig I think I hear and seen you say something about a tech job in Korea

[@nikitasantamaria]

Whenever yu go back to Korea do you plan on teaching again or for will you stick to doing KZbin there or something else?

[@DoubleChanceTreble]

Hi good video. You mentioned 5 days off in summer and 5 days in winter. What happens during the normal school holidays. Are you off work?

[@ashwult7315]

What is the salary that you have seen and your friends have seen or you have heard about

[@blakewang2373]

Great video. I got a offer to teach at Creverse, formerly known as Chungdahm learning. They are one of those big Hagwons with a toxic environment like you said. I realized they have a bad reputation. Do you know anything about Creverse? Any insight that would help me decide whether to accept the job or not would be approciated!

[@yupinaa]

How did you find your good hagwon??

[@lynaecornelius]

You probably going to get your masters idk in the previous video your sister mentioned it😭

[@sm00re2]

and she talked about graduate school in this video too lol hmmmmm

[@bdjeosjfjdskskkdjdnfbdj]

Hagwon

[@rodiesince88]

It wasn't your fault hey. Going to work with a positive and upbeat attitude isn't easy. If anything, it should've rubbed off on them. I'm low-key, but I'd deffs vibe with this attitude from colleagues.

[@paulwalther5237]

As a KZbin addict I made my own channel and I quickly discovered making and editing videos can eat up huge amounts of time if you let it. I made the personal choice to do minimal editing fully understanding that meant my channel would be super niche for people that maybe kind of know me from somewhere online or just are really into studying languages and willing to watch raw unedited blogs. The fact that you burnt out from doing two jobs at once almost makes me feel guilty even though I wasn't watching your channel back then. Just post crap videos with little to no editing! (I have loads of good advice if you want more)

[@way2girly]

This is random but are you still part of LDS?

[@itiz1]

EPIK is only for Americans?

[@micaylacatherine2079]

No 7 countries are eligible, uk, usa, ireland, Australia, new zealand, canada and south africa

[@itiz1]

@@micaylacatherine2079 oh nice! bummer my country isn't one haha.. thanks

[@michelleg7]

@@micaylacatherine2079 I was wondering what the 7 countries were, thanks for saying what they are.

[@tonyharp8430]

빨리와~~~😊

[@raijaynehearse]

I know I've said it to you so many times but I wish I knew what your hagwon was. I am moving there next year and I soooo terrified to end up at a bad one. I don't know how to know whether a hagwon will be good or not. So so scared.

[@0rhythm_divine0]

From which country you are moving to there to teach English?

[@BG-vb6dz]

한글 자막은..ㅎ 편집 힘드시겠지만 부탁해요 ^^

[@BG-vb6dz]

자주좀 영상 올리시지..ㅎ

[@traveling_yuni]

I'm guessing; you have a boyfriend in Korea? Or study! 🤗

[@ksjs8893]

You don't sound honest. It's more like you are trying to be nice.

[@jasonk.-im6od]

????

[@0rhythm_divine0]

Exactly, as if she is justifying by putting too many arguments.