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GEPIK–at-a-Glance
What you need to know:   

Description:

In short, GEPIK is the Gyeonggi-do school division’s English program.  The jobs are government contracts and are 100% secure.  Teachers, who teach with GEPIK, work at one school and are “the” English teacher (meaning they are the only native English speaker at that school).

The cities located in this province are what we refer to as Seoul "Satellite" cities. The GEPIK program is a government initiative that employs native English teachers to teach in Public schools. Being government schools, the contract is 100% secure. Teach ESL Korea has placed over 200 teachers at GEPIK schools and in the last 12 months and we are the #1 GEPIK recruiting company with Jane and Scott. From all reports, our teachers are very happy!

Teach ESL Korea has a great network of teachers throughout the province that we will connect you with prior to you arriving. 

  Hours:
  • 8:30 – 4:30, Monday to Friday (You will usually be done teaching by 2:00 pm, then can email, read or whatever (other than sleep!!) in your free time
  • 22 x 45 minute classes each week. 
  • Many schools offer opportunity for optional overtime, if you’re interested. If you teach only 4 extra (45 minute) classes per week, you increase your salary by 400,000 won per month!
  
Location:
  • Gyeonggi-do, the province that surrounds Seoul
  • Basically within 1 hour by subway or bus, often in major satellite cities
If you might be interested in applying for either GEPIK or EPIK public schools, please gather 2 LOR’s – letters of reference which are signed, dated, on letterhead, 1 page in length and written strongly in your favor. Email these to your TR as soon as you receive them. **Please work quickly since these always take much longer than you’d expect!

Current GEPIK market update:

  • We are starting to screen teachers for the Aug and Sept intake of public school jobs. 
  • In January 2014, GEPIK cut funding for almost all middle and high school jobs, for native English teachers. This has sent an extra surge of applicants into an already very, very competitive market for these GEPIK elementary school jobs.
  • Recent trends show most GEPIK schools are hoping to hire a single, white female applicant who is already in Korea (save flight costs, interview in person, experience teaching in Korea, etc.)
  • GEPIK is leaning strongly away from hiring couples – married or not. (EPIK has a similar policy these days but will consider married couples)
  • GEPIK allows each individual school to work directly with approved recruiters, rather than having a bulk hiring process through a head office (see: EPIK).

Map of Gyonggi Province

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