What I Experienced Working In a Korean Private School

An English teacher reveals the horrors of working at a notorious Hagwon school in South Korea, where staff and students are overworked to the point of breaking.
The conditions are so bad that many teachers choose to “midnight run” - disappear in the night with no warning. After dealing with sexual harassment, constant CCTV monitoring, and verbal abuse, she decided to share her ordeal with the world.
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[@cameo403]

I don’t think this sort of thing is limited to teaching. This is a part of Korean ways. It is a harsh society, with a very high unalive yourself rates, and lowest birth rate globally. No one wants to have children to have to endure that society, too difficult.

[@apokolypx]

Just say suicide man what's with saying unaliving all the time

[@alvinwe8396]

Unalive yourself? What?

[@orkodork2764]

@@alvinwe8396people commit suicide at a high rate.

[@matthewmiller6568]

​@@alvinwe8396they mean kys, but KZbin might censor it

[@EwilAlien]

​@@alvinwe8396KZbin removes comments with Su i Side in them

[@gogetyourgun1490]

Korean work environment is not fun.

[@EATSxBABIES]

Sounds like Korean teachers get the average service job experience in the US. Yelled at, hostility, not sitting down for 8 hours, running, being called stupid, few breaks? Hell that could be back of house at a Chili's or register/stock person as Dollar General and everything in between.

[@Stinger913]

So true though I’d still be willing to bet for all the shittiness of fast food or service industry most managers aren’t even yelling at their employees calling them stupid. I can see an angry Karen customer doing that occasionally. Crazy that this comes from like your boss you know.

[@SelfDiscovery_JJ]

. We need to think about what’s considered normal. In South Korea, people know that bosses often mistreat their employees verbally and physically, but it’s seen as part of the job. So, people notice it but don’t take action, thinking, “Who wouldn’t experience that? What can I do?” In this environment, standing up against it isn’t really an option. For example, in team meetings, staying quiet and just agreeing with the boss is often seen as the smart thing to do. - by passing one Korean -

[@macngeeseyt6029]

I hope they make more

[@samjarmin]

Standing for 8-12 hours a day and get yelled at by people in authority sounds like everyday in an operating theatre. Maybe I’m desensitised but this video isn’t shocking to me

[@rutukp7798]

Let's Talk about World wide Teachers, Who are suffering from overload, Depression, no work Life balance and at the cost..0 Financial wellbeing 0 Social, Mental support #me too From India

[@TouchedByGodsGrace777]

Boohoo, Western teachers are lazy af in the classroom then have a cry they need to mark and grade in there own time. Your entire job is handing students study materials and expecting them to learn it themselves. Get a different job if you don't like it... oh that's right, those who can't do "teach", sounds like a you problem

[@channelx92]

Are we talking North or South. If it's North Korea you're lucky if all you get is yelled at.

[@JonSnowIII]

And you know it’s bad if an American is criticizing the work conditions.

[@seanbertrand5289]

There are plenty of jobs in the states where you don’t sit down for 9 hours and do way harder work than teaching.

[@nickcarncross6137]

Have you taught? Physical labor is often more taxing. Having gone from landscape, roofing, manufacturing, to a teaching adjacent field (working with behaviorally challenged youth), I'd argue the teaching field is harder. At least I'm screamed, hit, bit, etc. by one rascal. Not managing a group of 30.

[@TheAcenightcreeper]

This is how every country should be and the USA could benefit from this….ive built out multiple, large teams over the course of my 30 year professional career. The best people i hired, who i am still friends with many of them and take them with me when i leave, i hired back in 1999-2004….finding any decent new hires and having to deal with their poor attitudes, lack of work ethic,cant stay on task, cant follow directions, and we are talking professional corporate jobs, financial investigators…hiring people with fresh JD’s…

[@songserok6463]

Am Korean and can neither confirm nor deny that this is bullshit

[@bliblablubb9590]

It's a sweltering thing. Toxicity of Korean social and work life has become somewhat famous thing. Interestingly it has become an increasing motive and plot theme in korean manwhas. Koreans know it and I think younger generations are fed up with it and want social change (also thanks to communication via internet having different culture to compare to) and search for an alternative way. But with how rigid and gerontocratic korean society is, it will take decades to manifest.

[@spongeeveryday]

I’m super tired of hearing complaints like this, you want personal happiness? You can’t demand society change around you, change yourself or your situation

[@cosmoscosmos4355]

Which Korea tho South or North

[@orkodork2764]

This is South Korea. North Korea prolly don’t even have teachers lol

[@MuzammilSaab-hl8ok]

Bro hindi me

[@TurnOntheBrightLights.]

Not sitting down for 8 hours a day? That's not so bad 🤔

[@VTHokie1001k]

For what it's worth I worked in two private Korean schools over almost 4 years of working and living in South Korea. It was nothing like this. I loved my time there and my Korean co-teachers and our boss all got along great and even went out drinking after work pretty often. Yes there are bad hagwons but they are easy to avoid. Either way this is so overdramatic it's ridiculous.

[@SinclairPoppins]

Koreans are among the happiest people on earth according to studies. When asked why they were so happy they said “people yelling at us.”

[@mikayla9146]

In 2024 The Netherlands is the country that has the highest ranking for happiness, with 85% stating that they are happy. South Korea has the lowest ranking, with only 43% saying they are happy.

[@SinclairPoppins]

@@mikayla9146 True dat

[@SinclairPoppins]

@@mikayla9146Are you happy?

[@mikayla9146]

@@SinclairPoppins usually 🙂

[@SinclairPoppins]

@@mikayla9146 That’s good 😂

[@user-ng7ip7vi8x]

That is what school must be like , not like americans where students got what they need , guns drugs .......etc

[@okinamokinam7668]

Bot username invalid opinion

[@user-ng7ip7vi8x]

@@okinamokinam7668 in Iraqi schools during the previous regime, it was written in large letters on the walls of schools: "Bring a donkey and win a man.

[@user-th5fc3jk9o]

Where are you from

[@Tofu_va_Bien]

Common South Korea L. DPRK = best Korea.

[@Mike-yj3jo]

Ok not cool to be yelled at and what not but..... not sitting down for 8 hrs, not many breaks, rushing around. It literally just sounds like your average American job. I'm sure the teacher didn't deserve to be called stupid, but cmon just from the description it doesn't sound THAT bad

[@Tofu_va_Bien]

Two things can be bad at the same time.

[@MidnightMatta]

Help me

[@fresh2defff]

This "guy" sounds like a scared cry baby

[@lomotil3370]

Is this a joke? The "horrors", are you kidding me?

[@elliotbradshaw5612]

Jobs supposed to make you run and cry

[@Deathprf88]

Oh poor baby. Try being a nurse in the united states.

[@Tofu_va_Bien]

Two things can be bad at the same time.

[@cameo403]

How could being a nurse anywhere not be difficult. You are dealing with sick people, dying people, mentally unwell people, how fun could that be? Especially in a country without healthcare. Yikes.

[@eddenoy321]

At least a USA nurse gets paid well. Korean teachers start at less than 1500 / mo. Free health care though, because you will need it.

[@sftita]

Ah, the same nurses who didn't stand against being *coerced* to take *experimental* crap? Who didn't know spike is toxic and we've known that for over 20 years? Who to this day aren't aware of the dna contamination? Hope you who are jabbed all take your 7th boosters with your precious drs so were left with the good ones. Hear about the 100 dead Canadian doctors? The CMA stopped publishing it in their journal. And btw, the illegals and members of Congress NEVER had a mandate. They were given a choice.

[@requiemforameme1]

“Once a Director asked a teacher to actually lift up a 35 lb box like the job description says.. 🫢”

[@IIDX]

Suicide rate by teachers is pretty high in Korea public or private. Parents have teachers personal phone numbers and call/text at any moment. Student fails = teachers fault. No accountability from student or parents. Keep your chin up aunts & uncles 😢

[@mikayla9146]

Suicide rates in South Korea are extremely high across the board, even amongst students.

[@mikayla9146]

The unalive yourself rate amongst students is also extremely high in Korea. Not just teachers.

[@user-th5fc3jk9o]

@@mikayla9146Are you Korean?

[@mikayla9146]

@@user-th5fc3jk9o do I look Korean😅? No I am not.

[@user-th5fc3jk9o]

@@mikayla9146 So where are you from