Footprints Recruiting

All schools we work with offer air transport to and from Korea as part of their standard contracts.

Here's how it works. 

1. You're accepted by Footprints, then you're accepted by the school. 
2. You then get your visa and while you're in the process of getting your visa you get in contact with the Footprints Travel Agent. 
3. You work with our Footprints travel agent to book a one-way ticket from the closest airport to you to the closest airport to the school in Korea.

Why one-way?  I was promised round-trip.

First, it should be known that most teaching jobs are NOT 9 to 5.  If you're in a public school, you're looking at 8 or 9 in the morning to 3 or 4 or 5 in the afternoon.  Teaching hours and working hours are different.  Teaching hours or classtime hours are the hours you are contracted to spend in the classroom teaching.  Most contracts also have a provision for "working hours" which is often teaching hours plus prep hours or office hours.  Often this is an extra 5 to 15 hours a week.  Some schools require you to be there 40 hours a week even though you are only required to teach 30 hours a week.  The extra 10 hours is for planning and administration.  It could also be for calling parents or helping with an advertising campaign.

Of course, you can leave Korea any time you wish if you are unhappy with your job or feel that you made the wrong decision in going abroad to teach. Generally, voluntary resignation results in loss of the severance payment and the loss of air transportation home. It can also involve repayment of your air to Korea and the loss of your housing deposit and reimbursement for the recruiting fee the school paid to get you there. Some schools may also try to withhold some of your wages. School management will, in the vast majority of cases, follow the contract in this area if you follow it by giving the required amount of notice (30 or 60 days) and if you are cooperative in the interim.

All English schools in Korea are required to provide their teachers with medical coverage for the duration of their contract. Normally the school will pay for half of your coverage and half the cost of your coverage will be deducted from your salary on a monthly basis. The cost to teachers for their medical coverage is typically 1.7% of your monthly salary.

IMPORTANT: your medical insurance will not start until you have your "Alien Residence Card". This is initiated immediately after you arrive but can take 2 weeks to 3 months to finalize. Footprints strongly recommends that you get at least 3 months travel medical insurance before you go. Perhaps this can be a going away present for you.