[Direct Hire] Hiring Teachers and R&D Memeber
SPARK Education · Seoul · Seocho
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Pay and hours
- Salary
- ₩3,200,000 / month
- This is an employment contract, so Korea's 2026 statutory minimum wage of ₩10,320/hour (₩2,156,880/month on the official 209-hour basis) applies to it. See salary data across all live listings.
- Teaching hours
- Not stated
- Actual classroom hours. Full-time hagwon roles in Korea typically run 22–30 per week.
- Time on site
- 40 hours a week
- Hours you must be at the workplace, including prep and gaps between classes.
- Split shift
- Not stated
- A morning-and-evening schedule with a long unpaid gap in the middle of the day. Unpaid gaps do not count as working time, so a split shift lengthens the day without raising the pay.
- Weekend work
- Not stated
- Whether Saturday or Sunday classes are part of the normal schedule.
The job
- Students
- Elementary, Middle school
- Contract
- Employee · Full-time · length not stated
- An employment contract (근로계약) carries the four national insurances (4대보험), severance pay (퇴직금) and the statutory minimum wage, whether it is full-time or part-time. A standard first contract in Korea is 12 months.
- Visa
- Not stated
Housing and benefits
- Housing
- No housing
- Severance pay
- Offered
- Severance (퇴직금) and national pension / health insurance enrollment are legal requirements for full-time employees in Korea. “Not stated” only means the listing doesn’t mention it — ask before you sign. “Not offered” means the listing says no.
- National pension
- Offered
- Health insurance
- Offered
- Flight / settlement support
- Not stated
- Paid vacation
- Not stated
- Contract vacation days, separate from Korean public holidays. For context, Korea's Labor Standards Act §60 (근로기준법) — 11 days in the first year (one per full month worked), 15 days from the second, rising by one every two years to 25. Workplaces with fewer than five employees are outside this rule (§11), so ask how many staff the school has.
The employer
- Employer type
- Academy / language school
- Who you would sign a contract with.
- Map search
- Google Maps ↗ Naver Maps ↗A search by name, not an address — confirm it with the school.
Ask before you sign
- How many teaching hours a week?
- How many paid vacation days, and when can they be taken?
Silence isn’t a denial: it may well be offered, but nobody has written it down. ?
- Working terms
- Not stated: payday, raise on renewal, paid sick days, public holidays, class size, foreign teachers on staff, teaching materials
- The questions teachers ask in almost every interview. This listing does not answer them, so ask before you sign.
From the employer’s original advert
[Teaching Position]
Currently, at SPARK Education, we are looking for full-time elementary teachers with a lot of energy and enthusiasm that reinforce learning through positive communication to help guide our early learners so that they can grow and learn to be confident independent learners.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Native English speakers ONLY
- Must be able to provide documents to be cleared for teaching by the Department of Education in South Korea
- Minimum 2 years of teaching experience in Korea
- Currently living in Korea
WORKING CONDITIONS & BENEFITS:
- Working Days: 5 days a week (Monday to Friday)
- Working Hours: 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm
- Monthly Salary: Starting 3.2 million KRW with housing
Based on experience and how you perform in your mock and interview, starting salary can be negotiated
Other benefits include: Flex paid time off, severance pay, pension, national health insurance
[R&D Position]
At SPARK Education, we are looking for a solid R&D member who can also double as a substitute teacher. For the R&D role, we are looking for a candidate who has extensive experience with the creation and editing of a wide range of level-appropriate education materials for our elementary and middle school students. The ideal candidate will also have a significant amount of teaching experience that has resulted in a deep awareness of the educational needs of English language learners within South Korea to be a solid substitute teacher. Substitute teachers will be expected to execute detailed…
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