Teaching Korea newbie

[tie4bassist]

Hey,

I was happily working away when I got an e-mail from total-english.co.uk suggesting I applied for a teaching position in SouthKorea. After a tiny bit of research I decided to go for it. I was just wondering if anybody knows much about them?

They're a recruitment agency working for academies in South Korea but thats about all I know. I'm a little worried about being left high and dry when I get there (though I've read the posts on here about having a contingency plan etc if things go bad). I'd still like to know if anyone else knows anything about them, any advice would be much appreciated.

I also told them I'd like a job in Incheon, has anyone had any good or bad experiences there?

I've one more question and it's a bit less mportant and possibly stupid but - is it still possible to access UK or USA websites in English from Korea? This sounds stupid as I''m writing it but thats a risk I'm willing to take to get an answer .

Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[Benz]

South Korea is not like China... don't worry about websites being blocked in South Korea. South Korea is pretty advanced when it comes to internet access and usage. Over 30 million internet users are in the country - this is 5th place. The other countries are:

1. United States
2. China
3. Japan
4. Germany

Life would really suck if you were living abroad and the government banned your favourite websites.

I haven't heard anything bad about totalenglish.co.uk. They don't look like a big company though, so probably not enough have gone thru their system to really gauge their professionalism.

[tie4bassist]

Thanks very much. No bad reports anywhere about total english so it seems like a safe enough bet so far. As for the internet, brilliant!