Teach English in South Korea: Full time position at Foreign Owned School in Sanbon, Gunpo-city, Gyeonggi-do (30 minutes from Seoul)

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Full time position at Foreign Owned School in Sanbon, Gunpo-city, Gyeonggi-do (30 minutes from Seoul)

Job Details

A well educated, experienced and energetic teacher required by friendly, foreign owned and run school, Banks & Lee Academic English (www.bankslee.co.kr)

Due to time constraints, candidates currently in Korea are preferred but we regularly recruit direct from overseas as well.

* About us

I am a British national and my wife is Korean. We both have extensive university (Seoul National University and Hanyang University) teaching experience and established our school in 2005. We teach a variety of classes, from standard elementary school classes to middle school. We also teach returnee level young learners. We have about 320 Students of elementary and middle school. We have 4 foreign teachers and 4 Korean teachers, 2 supporting staffs working together.

This position would suit someone who is interested in:

- Working in a fun, friendly, family run school
- Project based learning, Academic writing and speaking
- Improving their teaching skills. We¡¯ll support you in doing so.

Any teacher working with us would enjoy the following benefits:

- A western owner/management team; very approachable, reasonable and fair minded. This is a huge plus, in our experience! No ¡®cross-cultural misunderstandings¡¯ with us!
- Well behaved students and sincere ESL teachers make really nice environment.

* Location
Sanbon is a very pleasant and safe city in Gyeonggi-do. 30 minutes south of Sadang, Seoul. Our school is less than 5 min on foot from Sanbon station. (Seoul Metropolitan Subway Blue #4 Line)

* Start Dates
End of August, 2013

* Qualifications
- BA degree
- Native speaker of English.
- Team player
- Reliable, responsible, enthusiastic person.

* Conditions
- Working Hours : 25-30 hours of teaching / week + preparation (1:30-9:30)
- Salary: 2.4 million won/month for 30hrs per week
- Overtime pay : 20,000 won per hour
- One month severance pay at end of a 1-year contract
- Contract: 12 Months
- Students: 10 or fewer students per class; 8-16 years old
- Housing : furnished single accommodation in new building within walking distance of school (next to Sanbon E mart)
- Holidays : 10 days paid vacation plus all national holidays
- Health Insurance : Employer pays 50% of the medical insurance and National Pension
- Air Ticket refurbished (if we recruit from overseas)

If you are interested, please contact us at first instance forwarding CV, cover letter & photo and reference contact to both:

Mr. Anthony Banks: fareast51@hotmail.co.uk
Dr. Hyang-kue Lee: hyangkue@hanmail.net

Good luck with your application!