aka - Korean Organisation of Teachers of English as a Second Optional Language
The Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (KOTESOL) is an excellent group to join for both networking and learning. It's open to all English teachers, including hagwons, public schools and universities.
There are 9 chapters across the country and your yearly membership lets you go to any chapter meeting. There's also a National Conference - the 2004 Conference was in Seoul and was one of the highlights of my first year in Korea - over 100 speakers to choose from and exhibits from all of the book companies. Membership is really reasonable - only 40,000 won per year.
The meetings I went to had interesting speakers, and gave me the chance to meet teachers who've made Korea their home. Like many English teachers in Korea, I walked in to my first day of teaching with no real experience and the benefit of about 2 hours of training the day before. Over the course of the year, and especially at the conference, I had the chance to get professional input on a wide range of topics (eg. classroom management, vocabulary building, overcoming cultural differences etc...)
Overall, this is a terrific group to check out - visit www.kotesol.org for more information
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