🏫 Gangnam English Academy
📍South Korea
💰 Competitive Salary

Job Description:

We are looking to add to our team of 25 native English teachers for our English Academy and Kindergarten at Sinsa Dong 649-1. We are currently hiring for March, 2025, or earlier.

To apply, please email your resume to jobs@gangnamenglishacademy.com

Kindergarten Homeroom/Afterschool Teacher

Teachers are responsible for one kindergarten classroom of 5, 6, or 7 year olds from 9:00-2:45 each day with one hour lunch break. Planning time is available when the students are taking subject classes like gym, science, art, and music. From 2:45-4:45, we teach afterschool to kinder and elementary students. Then teachers have planning time, ending the day at 5:30 or 6.

Science Teacher, Music and Drama Teacher, Gym Teacher, Art Teacher

Special class teachers will teach every kindergarten class for about 30 minutes. They also have a one hour lunch break each day. On days when homeroom teachers are absent, a special class teacher will need to substitute teach that homeroom class, rather than their own normal special class schedule. Their afternoon schedule is the same as for homeroom teachers, teaching from 2:45-4:45 and planning time from 4:45-5:30pm.

About Us

Founded by an American and Swedish couple in 2013, GEA is a genuinely fun environment with lesson plans geared around speaking, writing, science, literature, and debate, with plenty of games and activities. We now have a team of 25 awesome Native English Teachers and 37 excellent bilingual Korean Teachers who make this a fun, collaborative place to work. You can read more on our website: GangnamEnglishAcademy.com/jobs.

This is not a job for people who just go through the motions of teaching. We are looking for smart, dynamic, fun, and very enthusiastic people. We value high performing teachers, treat them like professionals, and reward them accordingly.

Requirements:

Experience with teaching children

Fluent, native English

Love for kids, great attitude, flexible mind

Creative approach to solving problems and getting the best out of kids

Smart, fun, kind, enthusiastic

Compensation:

3,500,000krw per month, (or 3,000,000 for 9:00-4:45 schedule, or 2,500,000 for 9:00-3:15 schedule) (all include 1 hour lunch break) (increases by 150,000 after first year)

100,000krw additional bonus each month for completion of job-related tasks

Housing and key money is included, but rent is deducted from salary. You can choose your apartment, so rent depends on what you choose. Most teachers’ rents range from 550,000-850,000 per month.

Health insurance and Pension

One month severance pay at end of contract

11 days paid time off, in addition to Korean holidays. Most of these days are discretionary, so you choose your vacation days.

Fun Perks:

Regular staff teambuilding events like bowling, baseball game, pizza parties, year-end banquet

7 discretionary vacation days - you pick the dates (in addition to our week-long winter break)

Staff appreciation budget for Head Teachers to get monthly coffees or snacks for their teams

Breakfast treats the first Monday of each month, like donuts, bagels, or sausage mcmuffins

Free school lunch and a full hour break - you can eat with other teachers, go out to eat, go to the bank, etc. It’s your time!

Awesome desk staff to help with day-to-day issues in Korea like banking, taxes, mail, etc.

To apply for one of these positions, please send your resume to jobs@gangnamenglishacademy.com. If you have any videos of yourself teaching or presenting, or just introducing yourself, we would love to see that too, but it is not necessary for your application.

To apply, email jobs@gangnamenglishacademy.com