the move to Korea

You can earn enough to live reasonably comfortably in Mexico, but it's kind of hard to save any money. And that's while putting in 45 teaching hours a week. In the spring of 2005 I decided to make the move to Korea. Fewer hours, more pay. I wanted to teach high school, but the schools required a face-to-face interview before hiring. Teaching English is a huge industry in Korea. There are thousands of jobs, and dozens available at any particular time. By law, foreign language teachers are required to have a four-year university degree. If you have the basic qualifications (a degree and a passport from an English-speaking country) you can find a job in a snap. I decided to go for public school rather than private (larger classes but more holidays), and through a recruiter I got a job teaching elementary school in Gyeonggi province.