Pros
S.Korea as a country is amazing and beautiful. I am so lucky and honoured to have been able to live here. The students in my classes were mostly great! I really liked my apartment and its location. My co-teachers were nice to work with and understanding too.
Cons
The few students who were badly behaved were not punished. The school was only interested in making money from the parents and rarely ever told the parents what bad things the kids did. The desk staff were also just annoyed all the time. Information and news was always delivered at the very last minute. Not enough holidays. The holidays were also randomly in the middle of the week. So we rarely every had a three-day weekend. Then the very few holidays we do get, they keep moving them around. Some of my colleagues had to change their flights 2 weeks before, because management wanted to change the holidays.. Again.... About colleagues, all the people who apply for this job are young (early 20s) "adults". I use quotations because most of them acted like children in the office. They were also very discriminatory. I couldn't complain because I genuinely didn't know who to talk to, since I wasn't introduced to anyone in management except one person. They also expected me to be trained by the other teachers, who alienated me because I wasn't part of their clique/groupie. I was very close to doing a Midnight Run in the first 3 months. Luckily, there was one other English teacher who was more mature and NOT discriminatory. If it weren't for how much I love S.Korea and my friends that I already had there, I would have left long ago.